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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
Professor
Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
Essay topic: “The U.S. government is not doing enough to fight
identity theft/ fraud”
A. Explanatory Synthesis Essay
In this essay, you will be taking on the role of a reporter, gathering
information from various sources and writing them up in a coherent, focused
essay on your topic. In a synthesis essay, you look for relationships between
materials that you’ve read. You “synthesize” this information by presenting
the ideas together to inform your audience about the topic. In this particular
essay, you’ll be writing an explanatory synthesis where the purpose is to
inform, not to persuade. So your thesis should be different than your working
thesis for your research paper. Your research paper is an argument thesis,
where this one is explanatory. Think about this as a way to gather together
all those pieces of information you've compiled and present them in
a coherent way, just without pushing any particular perspective or argument.
This essay is another step toward writing a final research paper. You will use
sources that pertain to your topic, and they might be ones that you’ve
previously used for writing assignments. You must use at least three sources
within the text of your essay, and cite the ones you use in an annotated
works cited page at the end (which you might decide to post directly to the
discussion or attach as a .doc to preserve formatting). Of course, the more
sources the better. While you do not need to use a scholarly source at this
point (you'll need one in the final paper), try to gravitate towards more
trustworthy and authoritative articles and books. Don’t use Wikipedia as a
source.
The short essay should be a minimum of 250 words but a maximum of
500 words.
B. Annotated Bibliography.
Format at least three citations (which you use in your explanatory synthesis
essay) into an annotated works cited list. By now, you should have at least 3
sources for your research topic (they might be ones you’ve written about
previously). Format these sources according to MLA works cited rules and
also include an annotation with each of them (somewhere between one
sentence and 200 words each). See the lectures on annotated works cited
lists for formatting instructions. Make this assignment work for you to help
you with your writing process.The U.S. government is not doing enough to fight
identity theft/ fraud
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