Explain and argue the causes of a situation, an event, a phenomenon, or a trend that interests you after reading our selected articles/ essays/ short stories

Learning Goal: I’m working on a literature discussion question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

Explain and argue the causes of a situation, an event, a phenomenon, or a trend that interests you after reading our selected articles/ essays/ short stories. Narrow your topic enough to treat it in some detail and provide more than a mere list of causes. When seeking causes, you will have to decide carefully how far back to go in your search for remote causes. Moreover, you must be sure to distinguish between the immediate causes and the remote causes of the situation you are analyzing. For this assignment, you have complete control of the topic of your essay. However, please note this is not a PRO or CON essay—abortion, gun control, the death penalty, global warming, etc. are all weak topics unless you organize and focus them correctly for this paper.

Suggested topic

You might use your read stories, articles, or books and investigate the causes and effect through your culled content. Within your article, you can answer the following questions: What motivates the author to write? (Select any of the authors whose work was read in class to base your analysis).

In addition to merely arguing the cause of a particular topic, you will need to back up your assertions with researched evidence. You will have to research your topic to find evidence that helps you argue your cause. Let me be clear—this part of the assignment is non-negotiable: papers without research or citations will earn a low grade. We will have time in the library and access to the online resources to help you find evidence to make your arguments. You will cite your sources and quotes in APA citation format. As a result, you must have a work cited page at the end of your paper. This paper is between 500- 1000 words.

Stories to pick from –

The Lottery – Shirley Jackson

The necklace story – Guy de Maupassant

A Hunger Artist – Franz Kafka

Silent snow secret snow – Conrad Aiken

An occurrence at owl creek bridge – Ambrose Bierce