Using the usual MLA format you learned in English 1A, write a 2-page, 4-paragraph essay on the topic in the blue essay prompt box below. Follow the essay organizational method located in the gray box as you structure your essay.
Essay Prompt:
Fully analyze and exemplify how a single particular real-life situation would require a person to put into play two of the critical thinking attributes .
Analysis of a situation
Awareness of bias
Keeping an open mind
“Self Defense” against faulty logic, misleading claims, or propaganda
Creativity
Be sure that you are analyzing the same situation throughout the whole essay and that you choose only two of the above critical thinking attributes to apply in your response.
Essay Organizational Structure
brief introduction paragraph ending in a statement +
2 well developed, detailed body paragraphs +
brief conclusion paragraph
Be sure to be very specific and thorough in your body paragraphs, giving concrete examples and full explanations to support your points.
The body paragraphs are where you prove your thesis, so they should take up most of the length of your essay. If your introduction or conclusion paragraph is as long or longer than a body paragraph, that’s going to be a problem.
