Write an essay that contributes to an important cultural conversation which you have begun to uncover through your initial texts. Using rigorously researched contextual evidence demonstrate the implications and ramifications of this current cultural phenomenon through a SPECIFIC CONTROVERSY. Your aim is not to provide a lasting, definitive answer; rather your aim is to allow your readers to see you valuing and weighing the controversy, as you come finally to a tentative conclusion about your own point of view—a point of view that has been deepened and tempered by the works you have read. Your aim is not to be right but to be thoughtful, to convey a genuine impression to your readers that you have examined the evidence carefully and reasonably, and that you have been imaginative and rigorous—embodying the best traits of both scientist and poet. You ask only for your reader’s provisional assent as they read through to your reasonable, rousing ending.
