A 750+ word essay ( 3 pages, double-spaced) that makes a clear argument and conveys your personal opinion about an issue you connect to one of your identities (as an American, as a New Yorker, as someone of a particular ethnic or religious group, as a CUNY student, as someone with particular beliefs or convictions). Your goal is to persuade readers of your viewpoint. Your essay must make use of 3-4 research sources from 2024; these can include longer online newspaper articles (nytimes.com, wsj.com, foxnews.com, vox.com, huffpost.com, npr.org), online magazines (the newyorker.com, harpers.org, slate.com), or news videos of by reputable news organizations or journalists and writers. You must demonstrate proficiency in, and use, MLA style for formatting the op-ed essay, for working in the essay with direct quotations and paraphrases from your research sources, and for creating an MLA Works Cited page for your research sources.
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