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ENG-101-

Brian T. Murphy

April 12, 2007

Mini-Essay

Having read three essays on speech codes, review the section on Synthesis (17-21) and the college’s Civility Policy (in your Student Handbook) and develop a mini-essay (approximately three paragraphs) synthesizing the material from the three essays to support a self-developed thesis on the following topic: What do you think of BCC’s “speech code”? You may be in favor of it, opposed to it, or recommend some change to it (add, delete, reword, or clarify). Your mini-essay should take the following form:

I. Introduction:

A. Hook: See Hentoff 1-5; Silvergate and Lukianoff 1-5

Your ideas provide background and evaluation to lead into the thesis;

a restatement/summary of the situation, debate, or issue

B. The thesis: an objectively worded assertion of your opinion.

II. Body Paragraph(s):

A. Topic sentence: Your idea(s), leading into source(s);

A restatement or elaboration and clarification of main idea.

B. Support: main idea or evidence from source(s)

Correctly integrated

Correctly Documented

Used to support your assertion

C. Concluding sentence: Restatement of Topic Sentence

III. Conclusion:

A. Summary of the debate

B. Restatement of thesis in new terms

C. Concluding device: Return to Hook, Call to Action, or Point to Future

Remember that these are formal essays: they must be grammatically correct and avoid use of "I" or "you" throughout.

Works Cited

Clouse, Barbara Fine, ed. Patterns for a Purpose, 4 ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Hentoff, Nat. “Free Speech on Campus.” Clouse 605-610.

Lawrence, Charles R. “The Debate Over Racist Speech Must Not Ignore Its Victims.” Clouse 612-615.

Silverglate, Harvey A. and Gerg Lukianoff. “Speech Codes: Alive and Well at Colleges.” Clouse617-624.

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