Question I am aiming for: “How does social media use influence the eating habits of teenagers in ____ (place)?”
Your question should be (a) related to health, illness, and society (i.e. not strictly biomedical), and (b) answerable by relying upon secondary sources (scholarly literature), rather than requiring primary research(e.g. conducting interviews, discourse analysis, focus groups, surveys, etc.).
Students should use at least eight peer-reviewed academic sources in constructing their proposal. Please include a bibliography (separate from the page count).Please use 12 point font and normal margins. In terms of citations, use APA-style parenthetical references and bibliographic entries.
Have a clearly outlined thesis argument somewhere in your introduction (usually in the concluding sentences). Definitively argues for an answer to the question which is based in your research and breaking your argument into smaller sub-arguments is helpful. These will become the essay body.
Relate all points to each other and back to your thesis. Explain ALL evidence and avoid ending paragraphs with a citation. Citations need context: quotes should not to be included as stand-alone sentences. BE SURE TO Take the strongest counter-argument you can think of. Refute it.
