We should continue to encourage every high school student to go to college

For this essay, you will need a minimum of three outside sources, and one of those must be a source that essentially disagrees with your position or offers an opposing view on the issue. You must bring up and then counter-argue at least one significant point that contradicts or challenges your views. In other words, you will need to bring up a possible objection to your ideas and then explain what your response is to those ideas: do you think they are just wrong? or are they maybe right but not important? are they maybe right and even somewhat important but you still think your ideas overall make more sense? For example, if I was arguing that we should continue to encourage everyone to go to college, I might bring up the counter-argument that only about half the people who start college ever finish. My response to this would be to accept that this is true (because, well, it is true) but to point out that there are many reasons a student might drop out of college and it doesn’t always mean they shouldn’t have even attempted it. Maybe colleges need to do a better job of helping students succeed or maybe we need better financial aid to help them, but telling them to not even try college would be a bad idea.

When you bring outside information into your essay, you need to tell the reader where this information came from and also give your reader at least a little bit of information about the source which will establish the credibility of that source. Introduce the source by name (authors name — full name or last name — or the title of the source) and whenever possible try to briefly give your reader some information about the source to establish its credibility or authority.

Also, every time you bring outside information into your essay, you need to document the source with a parenthetical citation. Whether it is a direct quote, a paraphrase, or a summary, any and all outside information that you include in your essay must be fully and accurately cited. As soon as you include the information in your essay, add a parenthetical which will identify the specific source on your works cited page that you took the information from. If the source has an author, include the authors last name; if there is no author, then include the title of the source. If the source has page numbers, then include the page number.

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