ESSAY IV:  Writing to Effect Change on a Community Issue

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Readings and Other Sources of Information
        Community change or involvement (C.P.Ellis, various Z articles on campus activism,
        Campus life (Sadker & Sadker 228, Roszak 277, Lazarre 623)
        Interviews with campus officials, faculty, and/or students
        Library resources on SHU (internet and print)

Essay Requirements
*  Write for an specific audience and a specific purpose. For example, your audience might be the general campus (editorial or news story), a review board (a group that Dawn Williams chooses to review a proposal of yours), or to some other forum of students and/or faculty. In other words, the audience must be "real." The purpose must be "real," too, that is, to effect change in some way on the campus.
*  Write about a particular issue at Seton Hall in a way that reflects the complexity of the problem and a knowledge of who is involved in effecting change
*  Incorporate the perspectives of at least two readings as a way of contextualizing the writing for a Seton Hall students, faculty, or administration
*  Demonstrate a substantive knowledge of the issue through evidence presented (such as interviews, research using past Setonians, e-mail correspondence with administration officials, visitation to other schools)
*  One substantive piece of writing per project group