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1. introduce yourself, your major of study, your topics of interest, and your perspective on a problem within your major or a social problem relating to it via a brief, informal essay 
   
    


2. determine the type of documentation style used in your chosen field of study and practice setting up a document in that style.
   
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Helpful Information for Getting Started: Think about the problems within your discipline or social problems you have encountered that are disturbing or in which you have some personal stake/interest. Some examples of these might include access to health care, issues of government control, censorship, widespread disease, suppression of rights, poverty, economic decline, environmental hazards, war, education, etc. Think of how these social problems manifest in our society/world. Think of how you might be directly affected. Think of how your field of study or career field participates in the existence of or solutions to some of these social problems. 

Investigate Documentation Styles:

Visit this website and determine which style your field uses, or which style you want to use for the duration of the course: http://subjectguides.library.american.edu/c.php?g=175008&p=1154150

Set up a Document in Your Chosen Style:

Following the conventions of your chosen style (if MLA, APA, CMS, or CSE) as shown in Writer’s Help 2.0, set up a new document in your word processor. 

Thesis: Your thesis should be an explanatory statement about you and your perception of a problem and how it pertains to you and your field of study.

Audience: Your instructor

Format: Follow the conventions of your chosen documentation style. If you use additional sources, cite them. If not, just follow all other style requirements.

Length: about 2 pages