Assignment Instructions
1. Read the following:
• In TMHG, Chapter 3, “Writing to Understand and Synthesize Texts” (pages 31-61) and Chapter 7, “Writing to Inform” (pages 154-95)
• In TSIS, read Part II, “I Say” (pages 55-100).
2. Write a 1,750 – 2,000 word research-based essay to inform your readers about the variety of viewp01oints on one of the questions posed by the five groups of essays on pages 205 – 745 in TSIS:
• Is College the Best Option? (pages 205-94)
• Are We in a Race Against the Machine? (pages 297-414)
• What Should We Eat? (pages 417-537)
• What’s Up with the American Dream? (pages 539-636)
• What’s Gender Got to Do With It? (pages 639-745)