Sources: In-Text Citations & Bibliography
Whether you choose to analyze or argue, you must include at least three sources for this paper. You must also include a bibliography. The paper still needs to be one page, but if you choose to do so, you may print your bibliography information ONLY on the back of your paper (see example below). Be sure to read the class notes on In-Text Citations and Bibliographies.

All of your paper must still fit on one page.

You can print the bibliography on the back. No second pages.

Analysis Papers
Remember that an analysis should investigate an issue to understand what elements of Context influence the way that Audiences perceive the issue and the Purpose for upholding their stance. For example, parents would potentially strongly support music censorship due to the fact that the Internet makes almost any music readily available to anyone, including their children, despite "Explicit Lyrics" warnings that would normally appear on CDs.

When you analyze your issue, be sure to fully examine whatever aspect of your issue you are interested in. You may not be able to analyze the entire issue in a single, one-page paper (in fact, I highly doubt this is possible for any issue). Be sure to focus on your main interest and keep that as your main thesis, around which you will tie in all of your other points.

If you analyze your topic, you may want to focus on a particular aspect of that issue:

• Try choosing a single Audience who is highly invested in your topic and analyze their position and interest in your topic.
  Example—you could look at the reasons parents are invested in music censorship: children are impressionable; distribution of music is not easily controlled; many artists have quite controversial lyrics; controversial artists seem to be more popular, be it due to talent or the forbidden nature of their music; etc.
• You could also examine the effects that a single Contextual element has within the debate of your issue.
  Example—the Internet contains a wealth of information. Technology has progressed, and more people have faster connections, such as DSL, Cable Modem, and Ethernet connections, which lift the limitations of downloading. Now that more and more people use the Internet, a wider variety of information is available to anyone who can look it up. More programs exist that allow users to connect to others' computers and access more and more types of information, possibly information that is inappropriate for certain users (or, in some cases, anyone).
• You could examine one of the Purposes or even compare different Purposes within your argument.
  Example—some people want music censored for the protection of children; some feel that such music is inappropriate for anyone because it spreads a message of hate; some feel music shouldn't be censored because it is a form of self-expression; some feel this form of "self-expression" should not be expressed publicly, much less capitalized upon; etc.

Argument Papers
A complete argument over your issue in a single page could be a difficult task. Therefore, if you choose to express your views and write an argument about your topic, be sure to focus on one single aspect of your issue. Don't tackle your entire issue as a whole. For example, the topic of music censorship could involve issues of:

• the influence of music on children
• the availability of such music to children
• the concept of this music as "artistic expression"
• the First Amendment (freedom of speech)
• whose responsibility it is to censor music from children (music artists, record companies, parents, etc.)
• and many other issues associated with music censorship

When you write this argument, be sure to keep your paper focused on your main argument; don't go off on tangents or include multiple different main points. If you do have subordinate arguments that are meant to support your main argument, be sure to show this relation and tie the smaller argument into your main point. Make sure this second argument is portrayed as a component of your main argument, not as a tangent or simply a related argument.

Each of these minor issues within the main debate over music censorship has enough material to fill more than a page of argument. For example, if arguing about the responsibility of censoring music from children, you could address the main points of:

MAIN THESIS: censoring music from children is parents' responsibility
• the artist has the right to create the music; freedom of speech—if you don't like it or shouldn't hear it, don't listen
• conceding that children shouldn't buy or listen to this music, but it should not be banned just because one group cannot understand that such negative messages should not be acted upon
• the reality of the availability of music requires that people in continuous contact with continuous supervision monitor children's music
• and numerous other points and counter-arguments that support this main thesis

This paper is due Thursday, March 13^th.