Does setting the legal drinking age at 21 fuel a binge drinking culture among American teens? How Effective Is Online Learning? What the Research Does and Doesn’t Tell Us

Argument

For your final essay, you will take a position on a topic and defend it. Choose one of the topics listed below, determine your stance on it, and then argue for why your stance is valid using logical reasoning as well as outside research.

Topic Options:
What should the legal drinking age be?
Is online learning as effective as face-to-face learning?

In your thesis, provide you direct position on your chosen topic. Before your thesis, in the introduction, make sure to contextualize the topic, considering the conversation already going on around this topic question, before stating your claim and evidence claims in that thesis statement. In the body of your essay, you will provide specific reasons as to why your stance is valid by examining and arguing for each evidence claim in more detail.
You will conduct research to evidence your claims and include three outside sources to help back up your own logical reasoning; one source should be chosen from the list below that corresponds to your chosen topic, and the other two should be found yourself. Source information should appear in each body paragraph, and sources should be credible and properly cited.
Format your essay using standard MLA formatting and include a Work Cited page for the sources that appear in the essay. Please double and triple check your margins, spacing, page numbers, font, etc. This paper should be no less than 1,000 words and no more than 1,200 words.
You will be submitting this online under the Essay 3 assignment in the Modules tab in Canvas.

*A Few Notes about Sources: Your sources must be reputable and reliable. Please note, if you use an unqualified source, such as Wikipedia, you will automatically have points deducted from your final score. Good sources include the following:
newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, etc.)
magazines (Time, Newsweek, etc.)
books
scholarly journals
Required Sources:

If writing about the legal drinking age, choose one of the following sources to include in your essay:
“Does setting the legal drinking age at 21 fuel a binge drinking culture among American teens?” by Christina Capatides, CBS News
“Underage Drinking: Age 21 Minimum Legal Drinking Age” by the CDC

If writing about online learning vs. face-to-face learning, choose one of the following sources to include in your essay:
“Online Learning vs. Traditional Learning” by the University of the Potomac
“How Effective Is Online Learning? What the Research Does and Doesn’t Tell Us” by Susanna Loeb, Education Week