Task

Executives at a major newspaper are having difficulty reaching younger readers. They decided to have a contest to identify student authors who they will hire to write editorials about issues affecting young adults from their perspective.

You and your team will be responsbile for filling out the contest entry application. In order to do this, you will review four opinion articles from several news web sites. Reading through these articles, you will need to identify the issue being presented as well as the position taken by the author, which you will use to fill out the first page of the Contest Application.

Having identified the issues and positions from the 4 persuasive texts, you will then move on to the second page of the Contest Application. This page requires that you construct three thesis statements in response to a set of issues the editors have chosen in advance. On this page of the application, the editors will be evaluating the effectiveness and clarity of the thesis statement.