5 Essay Examples

TOPIC: ANALYZING EDUCATION OR EDUCATION-RELATED IDEAS

“What Does It Mean to Be Educated?” by J. Casey Hurley, published in the Mid-Western Educational Researcher, vol. 24, no. 4, 2011, pp. 2-4. Accessed through the database ERIC (MD Anderson Library). This short essay—actually a transcript of a conference presentation—is useful if you are initiating a discussion about or encouraging further examination of what being educated means. I used the article in a unit that prepared students to write definition arguments about some aspect of education. – Nathan Shepley

How to Use this Resource: The Midwestern Educational Researcher states that it is an open-access journal, meaning it is made freely-available, but it does not include a clear copyright statement or terms of use. It is generally agreed upon that linking to a website does not infringe on copyrights of the site. If you want to do more than link to it, you can evaluate whether your use of the content is protected by the face-to-face teaching, online teaching, or fair use provisions of the Copyright Act.

 

TOPIC: ANALYZING SUCCESS IN EDUCATION

“The Cult of Success,” by Diana Senechal, published in American Educator, vol. 35, no. 4, Winter 2011-2012, pp. 3-13. Accessed through the database ERIC (MD Anderson Library). Parts of this article could shape a discussion or student writing about what success means in education, a topic pertaining to definition arguments.  Please note that the pages where this article appears also contain other articles; ignore the article with a beige or peach background (pp. 8-11) and the article with a blue background (pp. 12-13). – Nathan Shepley

How to Use this Resource: Articles in American Educator “may be reproduced for noncommercial personal or educational use only.” View the full Copyright Permission statement.

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