Description
TOPIC: WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT IMMIGRATION?
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4-6 pages
Assignment Objectives
Students will complete this assignment by writing an essay that answers the question “why should I care about immigration.” Your answer must be supported by any of the documentaries we watched in class, the Atlantic article, or the Fresh Air podcast we listened to in class. That podcast must be used as some sort of support for your thesis, in addition to one more source from either your own research OR the sources provided on the first two assignments. Students’ essays should 1) have a thesis statement that answers directly the question you choose to answer, 2) support that thesis with specific details from at least two sources that were assigned and 3) summarize, paraphrase, and quote from the readings adequately to complete the task.
Rationale
Building on the skills you practiced in the first two essays from this course, here you will have the opportunity to compose a fully formed argument. Argumentative writing is essential to academic and public discourse. In argumentative writing, authors present a claim that answers a question or proposes a solution to a problem and then defend that claim with evidence. Being able to support your claims is an important part of being a scholar, critical thinker, and all-around good citizen. This assignment gives you practice with making an argument based on taking a position on a debatable issue. It also provides some practice in preparation for ENGL 1102, which will emphasize this kind of writing.
Assignment
Simply put, this assignment requires you to write an argumentative essay that answers the question “Why should I care about immigration” and quote at least two of the designated, assigned readings (viewings) from this class as support for its answer.
Must include Support from Fresh Air “How America Became a Nation of Immigrants”
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685846002/how-america-became-a-nation-of-immigrants
AND THE ONE below:
John Oliver:
Family Separation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVX1z6tDGI
Op Docs:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004526674/slow-to-show.html
Suggestion for Process
Step One: Topic in class
Step Two: An anticipated introduction AND a conclusion
Step Three: Body paragraphs with support (paraphrase, summary, quotation)
Step 4 Full draft workshopped in class
Rhetorical Situation
Your audience is basically your peers who have little to no knowledge about immigration at an HBCU. How does that change the support you will use?
Do I need a Works Cited Page?
Because you will be quoting, paraphrase, and summarizing from two sources (the assigned readings you choose to support your argument), you will need to parenthetically cite them in your essay. You will also need an MLA works cited page which lists both sources. Please ask if you have questions regarding citation, and remember that all essays will go through the Turnitin Originality Check in the D2L Dropbox.
Explanation & Answer
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WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT IMMIGRATION?
The problem of immigration has been around for quite some decades. However, for first
200 years, America only witnessed immigration from European nationality and immigration
from other parts of the world didn’t become prominent until the 19th century and specifically the
1960s when the US witnessed mass immigration from all parts of the world1. As a result,
immigration should be an issue of concern for every America for multiple reasons. For starters,
immigrants are significantly impacting the economy. Secondly, the manner in which President
Trump is handling the problem has escalated it to concerning levels. While America has
witnessed an influx in immigrants mainly from Mexico and other parts of the world, Trump has
portrayed the problem to a menace that is threatening the county while in the real sense this is
not the case since these immigrants do not pose as a major threat as President Trump asserts2.
Consequently, this has resulted to the use of adverse measures to tackle the problem that in the
real sense violate human rights and violate everything America stands for as the world’s greatest
nation. Hence, the problem of immigration should be everyone’s concern because it has deeply
rooted consequences that are affecting every member of the society.
1
Fresh Air “How America Became a Nation of Immigrants”
2
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Trump’s zero tolerance policy saw separation of immigrant families whereby children
were separated from their parents. According to John Oliver, “it was part of his zero-tolerance
policy where parents crossing the border were locked up prosecuted and had their children taken
away3....