Essay 2: Summary and AnalysisPurpose: Your purpose for this essay is to summarize two voices in a conversation, specifically, Lehman,“The Student Loan Trap…” and Opoku-Agyeman and Addo, “Student Loan Forgiveness CriticsAre Wrong…” You can find these articles in the Essay 2 folder in Brightspace. Your job is to, first,compose two comprehensive, accurate, brief, independent, and neutral summaries and,second, briefly analyze the choices made by the authors. You will maintain neutrality in this essay; that is, you will fairly and accurately represent eachposition so that the author of each position can recognize their argument in your summary. Wewon’t know how you feel about the opinions you summarize. Even for the analysis section, youwill report what you see not assert whether you agree or not. You will use ID tags and signal verbs in virtually every sentence of your summaries. You will rely on paraphrasing, primarily. Although, you may use word-for-word quotationssparingly, if at all. Keep in mind that a summary is putting another’s words into your own words.If you overuse quotations, you aren’t summarizing. The goal for this essay is to help you master summary skills, become familiar with thecomplexities of a controversy, as well as gain practice listening to and accurately representingwhat others say in a complex debate. Additionally, you will analyze how the authors use certainmoves common to academic writing.Audience: Your audience for this essay will be concerned, interested, yet uninformed citizens who arelooking to you to provide an unbiased, accurate representation of the voices in this debate.Format: Format your essay in MLA styleStructure:First paragraph:o You need to begin in a way that introduces your readers to the conversation. You don’twant to begin with the first summary. Instead, you want to briefly introduce the issueand the two voices that are taking part in the conversation.o Explain for your readers the basics of this conversation and offer a sense of why thisconversation is important.o For example, you may want to begin by telling your audience who this controversyaffects, how the outcome of the controversy may affect them, and why this controversyis important—answer the questions “Who cares?” and “So what?”
This week, we learned about the foundations and sources of criminal law, the organization of the court systems and the people that make them function, as
This week, we learned about the foundations and sources of criminal law, the organization of the court systems and the people that make them function, as well as the constitutional limitations of criminal law in the United States. For your Unit 1 Complete assignment, write a narrative essay (minimum 1200
