For your first draft of the essay you need to submit a complete draft for peer review, one with a beginning, middle, and ending of an essay (introduction, body, conclusion)–not just a paragraph or so, or an outline or some bullet points. You do not need to have MLA citation of sources, nor do you need to include a paragraph of reflection/explanation for your first draft.
Write an essay of at least 1000 words in which you discuss one aspect of our border policy. Use and establish a representative example from “Hole in the Fence”, “Hold the Line”, or “What Remains.” Use the techniques from Writing Analytically in order to generate your significant details from the text and your interpretation of them. Your approach should be analytical. A successful essay will establish a representative example from the text and examine the significance and implications of the idea/thesis that you are developing while making your thesis evolve. In other words, you are expanding one of your discussion observation posts to serve as a foundation for your essay with an evolving thesis.
Your essay should have the following requirements:
an analytical approach
a representative example from the reading that you are analyzing
an evolving thesis that results from examining complicating evidence.
Links to what you are writing about:
https://radiolab.org/podcast/border-trilogy-part-1
https://radiolab.org/podcast/border-trilogy-part-2-hold-line
https://radiolab.org/podcast/border-trilogy-part-3-what-remains
The essay is about Border Patrol and the migrants that try to come to the US. Please listen to the episodes and then write a draft about the people that try to cross the border and pass away and other things that happen to them.
