Choose from one of the following topics OR think of an argumentative topic of your own.
Students in laboratory courses should not be required to participate in the dissection of animals.
Washington, D.C., should be granted statehood.
In wartime, women should be subject to the military draft.
The annual Miss America contest is an insult to women.
The government should not offer financial support to the arts.
The chief fault of the curriculum in high school was…
No specific courses should be required in colleges or universities.
In a brief essay, state a claim and support it with evidence. Choose an issue in which you are genuinely interested and about which you already know something. You may want to interview a few experts and do some reading, but don’t try to write a highly researched paper. You are not required to use sources for this essay.
The essay should be a minimum of five paragraphs. Use mostly third person point of view (she, they, the author, students, etc.) and first person plural (we, us, our, ours). Use first person singular (I, me, my, mine) only if discussing a personal example.
