Election+Essay

In November of this year, millions of Americans will go to the polls to choose our nation’s next president.Most high school seniors are of legal voting age, and it is important that they get out and vote as these are tumultuous times in our nation’s history. We are all responsible to pick a president who will lead us safely through these troubled waters. Your assignment is to write a five-paragraph essay on your choice of two topics: **A. Who do you personally support for President? B. Why is it important to vote?** You are required to do online research to support your topic choice.

A. **Who do you personally support for President?** The Republican candidate for president is John McCain, and his running mate is Sarah Palin. For the Democrats, it’s Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Some Dependent candidates, most notably Ralph Nader, are also seeking the Presidency.Write a five-paragraph essay clarifying who you would vote for and why you would cast your vote for that person. Build your argument and your essay on three points that you feel are important to you and to our nation. Then do some research online to discover where the different candidates stand on these issues. In your essay clarify how your candidate of choice stands on the issues that are important to you.

B. **Why is it important to vote?** Write an essay persuading people to get out to the polls. Build your argument and your essay on three key reasons why voting should be everyone's responsibility. Do research online to establish what percentage of Americans usually vote in the Presidential election compared to what percentage of people turn out for national elections in other countries. Do further research to discover three legitimate reasons why voting in the 2008 election is more important than ever.

Save your document as Election Essay and create a folder in your English folder entitled Election Essay folder in which to place your outline, rough draft, and final copy. Start by doing an outline that has a clear introduction, three paragraph body, and a conclusion. Be sure to lable these five paragraphs in your outline. When your outline is complete, pull down under "save as" and change your heading to rough draft. Delete all the outline headings and move your information into proper paragraphs in your rough draft. Do not do any editing in your rough draft. When your rough draft is complete, pull down under "save as" and change your heading to final copy. You will do all of your editing and revision in your final copy. Submit all three steps of the process when you are done with your essay. Your outline goes on the bottom, rough draft in the middle, final copy on the top. Staple all together in the upper left-hand corner. Make sure that all your steps of the process are double-spaced and that you have all of the proper page headings on the top. Your work is to be done in 12 point Time News Roman Font. Your completed final copy is to be between 750-1,000 words. As with all writing assignments, you will be assessed on the five domains of effective writing. You will have time to work on this essay in class, but you will work on it outside of class as well.
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Left Side ..................................................... RIght Side AP English............................................. Your Name Election Essay.................................................... Period # Final Copy ........................................................... Date