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Page Requirement: 2 pages or roughly 700 wordsFormatting Requirement: This must be formatted according to MLA (Times New Roman 12 pt. font, 1” margins on all sides, and double spaced) with a proper heading (your name, instructor’s name, course name, date) and header (last name + page number). You need to include MLA-style in-text citations and a Works Cited for the readings you summarize.**Consult the Purdue Online Writing Lab website for the correct way to format and cite in MLA.Content Requirement:This assignment will be the seedling of your Formal Essay Cycle. For this short essay, you’ll exhibit a pairing of ONE in-class reading of your choice (from any point in the term) and ONE outside source that you find to illuminate the question at issue/topic you choose to explore. You will need to demonstrate that you can effectively summarize a source and make critical connections between multiple sources. You will use AT LEAST ONE QUOTE from one of the class readings and connect the underlying concept to your outside source. You’ll want to use more than one quote to give me as your reader a strong concrete sense of what your outside source offers (since I won’t have read that one). You don’t need to state a question at issue explicitly, but you do need to have some critical question at the heart of your thesis statement, which should be at the end of your first paragraph. Since this Critical Connection short essay will help

set you up for the first version of the Formal Essay, you want your topic to be one that can be easily adapted to an argumentative draft (complete with enthymeme and at least one counterargument—more on this soon). This essay doesn’t need those formal components, but it should give me as the reader a sense of what kind of debatable topic you’re taking up and why your outside source is a good choice of evidence for an argument about that topic.**The structure of this essay is not prescriptive, but I will definitely be evaluating this assignment on the basis of:The strength of your choice of an outside sourceHow well you incorporate and analyze quotesYour ability to choose a critical topic that is appropriate in scope (not too narrow, and not too broad)How well you structure your paragraphs.Class reading :1.Malcolm Gladwell, “Offensive Play”, link: londonessays.com…2.Claudia Rankine, “The Meaning of Serena Williams: On Tennis and Black Excellence”, linnk: londonessays.com…3.Mary Cain, “I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike”, link: londonessays.com…4.Kenny Jacoby, “Why Oregon’s Title IX Investigation of Kavell Bigby Williams’s Alleged Rape Stalled Before It Began”, linkn: londonessays.com…5.Susan Elizabeth Shepard, “The State v. Robertson: How Four Football Players Beat the Rap and Changed Free Speech in Oregon”londonessays.com…6. 30 for 30 Podcast: “The Sterling Affairs Part 4: Fallout”londonessays.com…