This assignment encourages students to move beyond their own critical perspective to include the perspectives of others. Of necessity, the source integration assignment also stresses the ethics of course acknowledgement and citation style, and therefore we will be discussing problems of plagiarism associated with this kind of writing. This essay will build upon the second essay on Octavia Butler's Kindred to tackle one of the issues associated with that novel: ethnicity, gender, or nation.

The fundamental promise of the United States' Declaration of Independence is that all citizens are created equally yet the history of the nation includes many occasions when the reality of the nation did not entirely live up to its promise. In this essay, you will call attention to a specific contemporary problem associated with some form of inequality and offer an essay which offers a course of action for addressing the issue backed up by secondary sources. The student may choose to utilize essays from They Say, I Say, in particular, they may select articles from section 19, What's Up with the American Dream?, to support their argument as secondary sources.

Purpose: Craft a logical, well-organized argumentative essay in support of a clear position which is supported by secondary sources that are accurately cited and quoted.