In your actual writing, you must integrate material from five of the following sixteen academic papers that have been placed on Blackboard as PDF files:
* “Context of Violence for Children of Color”
* “Does Media Violence Predict Societal Violence–It Depends on What You Look at and When”
* “Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime” by
* “Effects of Media Violence on Society”
* “Impact of Mass Media Violence on US Homicides” by David P Phillips
* “Impact of Violence on Children”
* “The Influence of Media Violence on Youth” by Craig A. Anderson, et al (and others)
* “Marketing Violence–The Special Toll on Young Children of Color”
* “Mass Media Effects on Violent Behavior” by Richard B. Felson
* “Media violence and judgments of offensiveness”
* “Media violence and male body image”
* “Media Violence and Social Neuroscience”
* “Media Violence Effects on Brain Development”
* “Mediated and moderated effects of violent media consumption on youth violence”
* “Reactions to Media Violence–It’s in the Brain of the Beholder”
* “Understanding Causality in the Effects of Media Violence”
Into your own essay, you must integrate something from each of the five academic papers you choose to use, and you must adhere to the MLA guidelines for parenthetical citation. You must also include an annotated bibliography at the end of your essay.
Information about MLA guidelines and annotated bibliographies can be found at the following two Webpages associated with Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (along with other pages of information that can be accessed through links on these two pages):
* edu/owl/resource/747/01/”>https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01…
* edu/owl/resource/614/01/”>https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01…
Your essay must support your thesis and arrive at a conclusion—some sort of decision, solution, explanation, or “whatever” that is based on your analysis and argument.
Also consider the Toulmin model regarding the six components of an argument:
* Claim (thesis)
* Data (support for the thesis)
* Warrant (the assumption on which your argument is based)
* Backing (support for the warrant)
* Qualifiers (language that modifies the claim and/or sub-claims)
* Rebuttal (addressing views that disagree with your argument)
Your essay must be a minimum of 1,500 words in length not counting the annotated bibliography and without padding the essay with unnecessary words—such as “I think,” “In my opinion,” or “I don’t believe” (et cetera).
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