(For Prezi Video) Essay 2 Explanation

Hello? Hello, everyone.

I hope you're doing well.

Um, I just wanted to make a quick video going

over the essay to prompt a little bit more in

depth. So hopefully that will help you out.

Moving forward.

Um, so you'll notice that I have a specific context

for you.

This context is based on the readings that we've been

doing and the way that they help us understand consumerism.

So it reads the consumers need you ever.

Culture has garnered a lot of criticism.

It makes us competitive, contributes the stereotyping and encourages us

to spend a lot of money on things we don't

really need.

But some acknowledged that consumerism plays a very important role

in our society.

It helps us establish social groups and send messages to

the people around us about who we are.

Either way, it's clear that our inclination to buy things

and be affected by ads has significance in our world,

and chips is as much as we shaped it.

So just to go over a little bit briefly, um,

we can establish certain pros in certain constant consumerism, and

the reason I'm going over this is because your goal

or your job here is to decide whether consumerism is

ultimately beneficial or detrimental to our society.

So let's start with the pros.

I think some of our course reading's such a Steve

courts is why consumerism makes you happy so that consumerism

is a necessary part of our society and even part

of human nature.

Of the reasons to support a consumerist, since I society

include that encourages competition between businesses, prompting them to offer

low prices for high quality.

It encourages progress because obviously, if there is a sense

of competition, our society or businesses or people in our

society continue want, want to continue pushing the boundaries of

what's available, so it encourages progress in our society.

And in terms of of what weaken buying what's available

to us.

It also gives the individuals a way to measure personal

advancement. So if you are someone who, um, maybe grew

up in a not a privilege, society or not, privilege

community, one way to I kind of like look at

or measure your your successes in life is based on

a consumer society.

So that's that's some of the pros that have been

established, my classes, some of the cons here So if

you're like anti consumerism, um, you'll probably want to focus

on reading.

Such is the logic of stupid, poor people, which demonstrates

our consumer society invites social inequality as we make judgments

on people based on appearances and possessions in The Man

Who Manipulated America will learn how the advertising that helps

propeller consumer society is essentially manipulative, so it's essentially propaganda.

It controls our values and actions to encourage spending.

So keep those things in mind as well.

Now your task here is to answer one of the

following questions.

So, in a thoughtful, clear, thesis driven essay, respond to

one of the following questions.

To what extent is consumerism a problematic or beneficial force

in our society?

Or, alternatively, how or why is consumerism a problematic or

beneficial force in our society?

So one of them is going to allow you to

play in the middle right?

That first question is not going to allow you to

say that consumerism is beneficial on Lee with these limitations,

or it's tetra mental unless right, you get to determine

where consumerism stands kind of in the middle.

Alternatively, you could argue for or against a consumer society

is that ultimately detrimental?

Or is it ultimately beneficial?

That's up to you.

But you could only choose one.

Um, so this s s specific requirements and these requirements

are based on the course s ellos.

So you need to be able to do these requirements

in order to pass the class, which, which is our

bottom line here.

Um, so the first requirements, the both basic ones are

hospital 1750 words.

It needs to be thesis driven, and it needs to

be argumentative.

Any seven introduction that thoroughly introduces the topic of consumerism,

defining any he terms and concepts and indicating the argument,

conflict or conversation in which you are entering.

So we've talked about this a lot with our first

essay. We want to establish that there is a discussion

happening about this topic and you are entering and saying

your opinion.

Before you leave, um, you must have a unique and

specific thesis statement that answers a prompt question and provide

solid reasoning.

There should also be several body paragraphs that contain specific,

clear and argumentative topic sentences that elaborate on an area

within the thesis.

So we talked about that, right?

The topic sentences in the thesis statement they should read.

If you read them together with no other part of

the essay involved, they should really clearly almost like a

paragraph where it's clear how the topic sentences expand on

the thesis.

Um, there should also be here clear and thorough support

in the form of Pote sandwiches.

Remember toe layer those cuts.

Carriages play with different processes of, of analyzing the clothes

and connecting them.

Um, and make sure that the paragraph comes full circle

and really connects back to your thesis.

So it's clear how everything is working together.

You also need a counter argument paragraph, which I've posted

information for in your on your canvas page.

There's like, um, there's the slides.

There's a presentation that it recorded like this.

And there's also an, um, a assignment for you and

then class.

A conclusion that wraps up and contextualized is your essay.

There's a few more requirements that I want to go

over him.

The first is Emily Format, right?

The entire document must be an Emily format.

This includes double spacing throughout 12 point font left, adjusted

with your heading with your name.

My name.

The date of the class, the Jew date of the

paper, a top right header slash page number on every

page, a correctly formula formatted work cited Page.

And also, there's an Emily format guidelines page on canvas.

This is for your reference, has videos.

It has power points.

It's got, like, connection.

It's got a link to another source that will help

you, um, form for my dear Emily.

So I do expect you to look at that and

kind of get get through it as best you can.

Um, lastly, No, this is not lastly.

Um, there needs to be 4 to 5 sources.

At least three of these 45 sources must be found

through individual research, so you can use two or more

from the class.

But you also must find three from outside the class.

Remember, we're mostly working with tear, too.

Resource is remember to go back to your textbook and

look at here too.

It should be incredible.

They should be from reputable news sources.

You should be able to research the author and see

that they are some sort of like expert in this,

um or they have some sort of like high levels

knowledge in what they're what they're writing about.

I also said just and welcome you to use the

L A.

T T C library databases to conduct your research, and

I will post some videos how to do that.

Also, the L A public library allows you to do

scholarly research, so make sure to post some sources that

lead you through that process as well.

Um, I think this is the last one.

We want to make sure that you have a clear,

inappropriate tone I noticed with essay one.

So you take on like a motivational tone or an

instructional tone or two, Um, kind of like, informal of

a tone or sometimes some of you go the opposite

direction and it becomes almost like to too formal, too

academic. So we really want like like clarity is the

goal here.

Make sure that it's clear.

Don't like go too crazy with sentence structure.

Don't use um, slaying, right?

It should be really clear and appropriate.

Um, correct grammar sentence strikes, your pump punctuation and copulation.

Capitalization is unless I know most of you know how

to do appropriate capitalization and punctuation, that kind of stuff.

So really go through and and proof.

Read your paper for those errors, and then it should

be free from plagiarism of any kind.

Um, the last thing I want to go over it's,

um, take tips.

I have for success.

Um, these Airways, that you could empower yourself to contribute

to your success on this assignment and know we're kind

of going through a funky time.

But, um, you have a lot of power to be

successful in this class, regardless of that.

So, first and foremost, you need to be fearless.

Do not be afraid to take those mental risks, right.

You clearly all have done the readings.

You have an opinion on this, um, be able to

approach the prompt in a genuine way.

And don't let fear stop you from doing your best

work. Another thing I really want to encourage is time

management begin on time.

Don't wait to the last minute.

This is a pretty long paper.

You're not gonna want to crank it out in one

night and have to do all that research and all

that reading in one night.

One thing that will help is to submit all prep

work. So any outlines thesis statements any, like, sort of,

um, like scaffolding assignments that I require If you submit

those on time, even if you feel like they're not

complete, it's better to do that because that means I

can help you.

I can give you the feedback that you need in

order to move forward.

Additionally, planned regular spans of time to work on this

in your schedule.

Right in your planner.

Right in your phones.

Make sure that that you make time that you time

this essay appropriately.

It's not gonna work if you kind of like, wait

for those crevices of time.

What you want to do is actually plan the time

that you're gonna spend on this essay.

Lastly, remember, to use your resource is information does not

exist in a vacuum you don't have to feel is

that you need to know everything in order to succeed

on this paper.

You can use Internet resource is to help clarify any

concepts you don't understand.

You can use them to help you forgot your papers

or to receive grammar advice.

Additionally, you can always ask questions if you have them.

That's what I'm here for.

So you can always come to me as well.

And I think that is it.

That is essay to that's your job.

Just remember, answer the prompt question.

Be genuine, be clear and do your research, and I

think that you will all be just fine.

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