CSD 9-12 CWA Prompt
Instructions:
Below you will find an argumentative writing prompt. Please read the prompt carefully making yourself aware of all the parts you must answer. You may create your own graphic organizer and/or outline on lined paper. Once you have organized your paper, you will be expected to answer the prompt with five or more paragraphs, using the articles provided to provide evidence to back up your claims. As you read the articles, feel free to highlight, underline, and take notes on paper. You will be given one class period to read the articles and brainstorm your essay, then a second class period to type the essay.
Prompt:
It seems that everyone is on social media these days. Through status updates, locations, pictures, and videos, social media is a way for us to share our lives with the world. However, the content we post often includes people other than ourselves. If you take a picture of someone and put it on your social media account, have you invaded their privacy? What expectation of privacy do you have when you are in someone else’s pictures?
Read the following sources carefully. Then, in an essay that synthesizes at least three of the sources, develop a position about social media privacy.
In your response, be sure to:
consider the purpose and audience of your essay and write five or more paragraphs, including a good introduction and conclusion.
define the issue and skillfully orient the reader to the topic in the introduction.
introduce a precise and knowledgeable claim in a sophisticated thesis statement and develop that claim with relevant body paragraphs.
create cohesion through skillful use of linking words, phrases, and clauses within and between paragraphs that are purposeful, and have a logical progression of ideas from beginning to to end.
provide a meaningful and reflective conclusion that draws from and supports your claims.
provide substantial and pertinent textual evidence from the articles provided to you to support your claims, and seamlessly integrate those sources into your essay, using persuasive and valid reasoning.
convincingly refute specific counter claims.
use purposeful and varied sentence structure, and strategically use academic and domain-specific vocabulary that is appropriate for the audience and purpose.
use proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.