Women’s Safety in America

Description

In this paper, you will describe a person, object, or event using only empirically verifiable facts. The objective of the paper is to invite your reader to see the person, object, or event in an unusual light while ensuring that your paper remains completely free of any evaluative language. Your final draft should be 1000 words in length not including and bibliography/works cited/references page.

Choose a topic that you are very interested in writing about. Choose a person, object, or event that you find interesting and that you can readily research. You will incorporate research while refraining from evaluation and editorializing.

After you choose a topic, begin to compile facts that allow you to show your topic in an unusual light. By “unusual” I mean in a way different from how most people would think about that person or object or event. Your essay should NOT be a report. You are not writing an encyclopedia entry. You are making an argument by presenting an artful, carefully-crafted perspective. If you think this is near impossible consider that journalists do it all the time.

Though you are being artful, you want in every case to use only empirically verifiable statements. At no point should you use language that discloses your opinions or use the evaluative language of any kind. Your essay should only contain carefully collected and composed empirical statements that you have strategically organized.