Description

  • Write a 4 page (1000-1200 word) double-spaced typed essay in 10-12 point font.
  • • Base your paper on the 4 assigned articles on the topic of the boundaries of free speech. YOU SHOULD USE ALL OF THE ARTICLES THAT YOU USED FOR YOUR QUIZZES. This will be 4 of the 5 assigned articles.

    These are the articles for the assignment:

    1. Cancel Culture comes for Counterculture https://reason.com/2019/04/29/cancel-culture-comes…

    2. Facebook is removing Anon pages and groups from its sites, but critical thinking is still the best way to fight conspiracy theories https://theconversation.com/facebook-is-removing-q…

    3. What’s Offensive Art? The Answer isn’t Black and White https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/07/26/vincen…

    4. Thirty years on, Why the Satanic Verses remains so controversial https://theconversation.com/thirty-years-on-why-th…

    5. Unlearning Liberty https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspir…

  • Focus on the structure of your paper! Use the videos to help guide you.
  • Your introduction should begin with some background on your topic and end with your thesis statement. Your introduction can be more than one paragraph.
  • Your thesis should reflect the viewpoint that you arrive at after carefully reading and considering the assigned articles, but it should not be phrased in the first-person.
  • Develop your supporting points with a few well-chosen quotes as well as summary/paraphrase, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, based on how the articles were discussed in class, discussion boards, and quizzes.
  • • You may also use the video interviews with R. Crumb, Quentin Tarantino, and Cornel West that were provided, but you are not required to. Use the video author’s name as your parenthetical citation.

  • DO NOT use outside sources.
  • Credit the source by adding the author’s name in parenthesis at the end of your sentence.
  • Summarize your supporting points and restate your thesis in your conclusion.
  • Avoid clichés.
  • Keep your language formal and academic. Do not use slang. Do not use “I” or “you.”
  • Include a works cited page in MLA form