Informative Research Essay

Using personal experience, field research (interviews) and library/Internet research, write a four to five-page informative magazine article using a surprising-reversal strategy. Your task is to build your reader’s curiosity by posing an interesting question, summarizing a common or expected answer to the question, and then providing new, surprising information that counters or ‘reverses’ the common view. You imagine readers who hold a mistaken or overly narrow view of your topic; your purpose is to give them a new, surprising view.

Topic Selection: Select a topic other than the ones that you chose for essays 1 and 2. You may consider topics such as a popular or unpopular activity, consumer item, or phenomenon such as a food, a diet plan, an exercise, a sport, or a fad. Research Requirements:

Use at least four research articles (at least 2-3 articles from library databases) in your essay.

Identify and interview individuals who are credible/reliable sources for your article.

Provide in-text citations in the form of parenthetical and attributive-tag citations when you use research support within the essay (see chapter 27).

Create a Works Cited list for all the research sources (online and print) used in the essay (see chapter 23, A&B textbook).

Selecting Research (published: online or print) Sources:

First, view the following YouTube video on how to identify credible websites: http://youtu.be/T4nmiJLhB5c

Use the information from chapters 22 and 23 in the A&B textbook and the YouTube video to identify credible Internet websites that will help you develop your essay.

Library Databases: Use the Brookhaven College Library Databases to conduct research and identify scholarly/academic sources for your essay. (Preferred)

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