PROMPT FOR PAPER ONE:
“Should there be more regulation of today’s extremely large Silicon Valley internet and social media technology corporations such as Google, Amazon, Facebook (which alone owns Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus VR and more) or Twitter due to their effects on society today?”
(e.g. privacy concerns, control and flow of personal and public information, too much dependency on technology itself, monopoly power, financial power, artificial intelligence, positive or negative impacts on politics, democracy or the free exchange of ideas and speech)
PLEASE NOTE: As with all persuasive writing topic questions in this class, you can argue ANY side of the issue question but you must choose just one, a claim with a “because clause” with two to three reasons for an enthymeme to present in your first paragraph. You will also present 40 percent of your opposition, their argument, your opposition’s claims, reasons, evidence, and try to persuade them in the classical argument format. 2 pages of opposition total in a five and a half to six page paper). Your opposition must enter the essay as one full paragraph by page two as well.


