create a thesis about a theme found in two or more works of your choice from our textbook and/or elsewhere. The overall purpose is to bring together, or synthesize, works dealing with similar issues to help support an original thesis that states your argument. You will need to not only rely on the written sources but your own ideas and reasoning. Objectives: • To demonstrate your ability to write a unified, coherent, and logically organized essay that is an argument. • To integrate or synthesize the ideas from multiple sources and multiple types of sources. • To articulate a clear position on a complex issue. • To argue the position with reasonable evidence from multiple sources and multiple types of sources. • To learn the value and necessity of compromise when approaching complex issues. • To think outside of binary oppositions. • To learn how to use the rhetorical triangle effectively and see how ethos, logos, and pathos interact. • To use quotations from multiple types of sources effectively and properly; this includes citing the quotations and typing a References page • To achieve a tone that is reasonable and academic • To recognize the pervasiveness of argument outside of traditional debate and critique an argument on academic (as opposed to emotional) grounds. • To analyze the rhetorical situation of an argument, such as the the intended audience, the argument’s context (social, cultural, political, economic, religious, etc.), and the purpose of the work. • To learn how to identify errors in reasoning, including faulty logic or rhetorical fallacies. • To utilize the writing process – inventing, writing, revising, and editing – from start to finish • To communicate with as few errors as possible in grammar, mechanics and usage. Requirements: • APA format • Length: 5-7 pages, typed, double-spaced (not including the References page) • 12-point font (New Times Roman or Arial) • Use a minimum of 3 sources. • Use a variety of methods of incorporation of sources: direct quoting (at least 5), summaries, paraphrases • Sources may be acceptable web sites--see the link on this, but at least one should come from the OCU library search engines (Sirs, Ebscohost) Some ideas for essay 3: 2 What is the phenomena of the "overscheduled child"? • Some points for discussion. • Importance of early childhood development through teens • How over scheduling may lead to stress and anxiety depression • Lead to poor self esteem • Over scheduling comes from parents desire to be helpful • Keeping up with joneses • Parents may be living vicariously through childs accomplishments • Parents anxiety for childs future is transferred to child • Maybe some discussion of how this phenomenon is related to the industrial revolution as children used to be necessary to work for parents My thesis would run along the line that the modern syndrome of the overscheduled child can result in poor psychosocial development and lead to anxiety and depression if children are not allowed to develop good relationships..Something like that create a thesis about a theme fou article in pshychology today jan/feb 2003 by david elkins "the overbooked child"