Why college tuition should be free in California
Budget: $10 – $30 USD
Need to write a 5 page essay with citations pages utilizing quotes from resources provided by college professor. Need to be submitted by saturday 5/20/23 @ 11:59 PM
Prompt
Your essay must support your response to the question below. Your "answer" to this question will be your thesis statement:
Should community college tuition be free in California?
To help you answer this question, consider such questions as: For who? Under what conditions? Who would benefit most? What are the consequences? When you answer these questions, you make your argument more specific, and that is a good thing. Answer the question as specifically and as uniquely as you can. No matter your response to the question above, you must support your position with sound reasons and evidence.
Note: Community college is free in California *to an extent* -- only certain types/groups of students, specific programs, often with strings attached like number of units or GPA. Also, "free tuition differs from college to college, county to county. This variety will give you, the writer, lots of ways to narrow answer the prompt above."
Sources
You need to research and cite from four outside sources and three sources from Essay 3:
Two sources must be an article from ECC’s library databases. You must use these databases:
1. Academic Search Complete
2. Master FILE Complete
3. Chronicle of Higher Education
One sources must be from a credible website, appropriate for academic use. You will use Google for this.
One source must be an ebook from the EBSCO ebook database or Google Books.
Include three sources from the following (same list of sources from Essay 3):
Jill Roplogle's article: "What California's Free Tuition Programs Can Teach the Nation." Links to an external site.
Kenneth Adam's article, "Free Community Colleges Was Never Going to be Enough." Links to an external site.
Felicia Mello's article "Not-So-Free-College: The Limits of California's Promise Program."Links to an external site.
California College Promise Project’s report: “College Promise Programs: A Description of the California Landscape” Download “College Promise Programs: A Description of the California Landscape”written by Mary Rauner and Amelia Smith
This is a total of seven sources for the essay. Do not over rely on a single source. You may integrate sources throughout your entire essay, including the introduction and conclusion. You may cite more than seven sources; the limit is ten sources.
And remember, Essay 4 is worth 35% of your grade.
Prompt
Your essay must support your response to the question below. Your "answer" to this question will be your thesis statement:
Should community college tuition be free in California?
To help you answer this question, consider such questions as: For who? Under what conditions? Who would benefit most? What are the consequences? When you answer these questions, you make your argument more specific, and that is a good thing. Answer the question as specifically and as uniquely as you can. No matter your response to the question above, you must support your position with sound reasons and evidence.
Note: Community college is free in California *to an extent* -- only certain types/groups of students, specific programs, often with strings attached like number of units or GPA. Also, "free tuition differs from college to college, county to county. This variety will give you, the writer, lots of ways to narrow answer the prompt above."
Sources
You need to research and cite from four outside sources and three sources from Essay 3:
Two sources must be an article from ECC’s library databases. You must use these databases:
1. Academic Search Complete
2. Master FILE Complete
3. Chronicle of Higher Education
One sources must be from a credible website, appropriate for academic use. You will use Google for this.
One source must be an ebook from the EBSCO ebook database or Google Books.
Include three sources from the following (same list of sources from Essay 3):
Jill Roplogle's article: "What California's Free Tuition Programs Can Teach the Nation." Links to an external site.
Kenneth Adam's article, "Free Community Colleges Was Never Going to be Enough." Links to an external site.
Felicia Mello's article "Not-So-Free-College: The Limits of California's Promise Program."Links to an external site.
California College Promise Project’s report: “College Promise Programs: A Description of the California Landscape” Download “College Promise Programs: A Description of the California Landscape”written by Mary Rauner and Amelia Smith
This is a total of seven sources for the essay. Do not over rely on a single source. You may integrate sources throughout your entire essay, including the introduction and conclusion. You may cite more than seven sources; the limit is ten sources.
And remember, Essay 4 is worth 35% of your grade.