Essay #3

For this paper, you can choose between two topics:
1.  How can educational television shows about science receive more funding and airtime?
2.  How can small businesses be supported to prevent them from being destroyed by huge chains?
For this essay:
Your introduction should provide background information and important details the reader should know before you move onto other parts.  The introduction has to catch the reader’s attention:  make him/her want to read the paper.  Remember that a good introduction includes a thesis statement.
Briefly state your proposal – the idea that you want the reader to accept.
Discuss your plan of action – explain how you plan to achieve the proposal.  How will your reader know your proposal is valid?  This is the section where you have to convince the reader to agree with your ideas.
In the Conclusion, summarize the key points and include a call-to-action.  Do not include any new information in the Conclusion.
You will need to do research for this essay.  
Criteria:
MLA format
5 pages
Works Cited page with 3-4 academic sources.
For this essay, you will need outside sources.  If you have completed the SPLAT tutorial, you will know which are considered academic sources.  
You will also need a Works Cited page.
 
Entries are in alpha order according to the author’s last name.  If there is no author name, use the first word of the title for your alpha listing.
Note:  The first line of the entry is at the margin.  The second and subsequent lines are indented.
A Works Cited page is important.  It shows the reader where to find full information about something you have already mentioned in an in-text citation.
These formats are important for academic work.  You will lose extra points if your in-text citations and/or Works Cited references are not done correctly.