The Social Dilemma (2020 Movie)

This paper gives you the opportunity to exhibit your college level thesis-driven writing skills.
To develop your response use your "asking the right questions" exercise and your rhetorical analysis. Those
questions and analyses now serve as leaping off places for you to dig further into your own understanding,
clarify the author's position, and formulate your own position. You might look further into one particular idea or
issue brought up in one of the films, or develop a position that engages the rhetorical strategies of one of the
films, or develop an analytic response to the positions developed in the films.
You are welcome to do and use additional research but the research component is not the focus of this paper.
It really depends on your primary claim as to how much outside research might be needed. Claims about the
rhetoric of one of the films might need less outside research. Any additional resources that you use should be
reputable and cited.
Your paper should present an argument that includes a clear and precise thesis in your introduction. Then the
body of the paper develops your position with secondary claims and evidence. The tone of your paper should
be academic but doesn't need to be overly formal. The paper should be formatted and cited according to MLA
guidelines. Your final draft should be 4-5 double-spaced typed pages.
Review the work we've done with academic arguments, voice, and MLA documentation. In my assessment of
this paper I'll be assessing the following course outcomes:
• Compose thesis-driven academic essays
• Evaluate information and major positions on issues and arguments
• Synthesize source material into coherent and original arguments
• Compose clear and precise sentences and organized paragraphs