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)