The initial purpose for this writing assignment is to inform our audience about a contemporary problem/solution topic. The assignment calls for using different rhetorical strategies to create one text. The research essay targets and improves composition skills and critical thinking skills. You will first identify and explain a problem area within a subject matter that you have chosen, persuading your reader that this is a serious enough issue to require some kind of change in thought or action. Then, you should persuade your readers to think a certain way or to take a certain action to correct that problem (i.e. propose solutions to that problem).
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