Op-Ed Essay, NYU, Singapore: write an op-ed, which is short for opposite the editorial page.

Description

Your final goal for this course is to write an op-ed, which is short for opposite the editorial page. You have been working on your op-ed last semester, gathering materials in your blogs, and submitting a tentative draft of your beginning with Assignment 1

Your final op-ed should include:
• A vivid rendering from your observational research of your place, community, or personal writing practices

• Analysis of these observations

• A question that is prompted by your observations and motivates further research

• Summaries that introduce your reader to your two sources, clarifying their main arguments and ideas.

• Evaluation of each source in light of your research question and application of the sources’ ideas to your topic.

• A synthesis or conversation between your two sources, in which your sources are connected to help you compose an argument that is your own. Ideally, there should be some tension or clear differences between your two sources.

• Your own argument is composed of the ideas borrowed from your sources as well as your own analysis and thinking.