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Module 7 - Possible essay prompts

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Prompt 1: Family values change as society changes.  As a result, ideas about how children should be raised change.

  • Write a letter to one of the following audiences in which you compare (and contrast) at least two of your ideas about raising children with a minimum of two ideas of the adult or adults who raised you.  You may address this letter to the editor of a parenting magazine, family pediatrician, or a teen-age son or daughter.
  • Revise the first two paragraphs of your letter by addressing one of the other two audiences.

What is this prompt asking you to do?

  • Write a letter to a particular audience
  • Compare (and contrast) two ideas
  • Revise the first two paragraphs for a different audience
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