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Homework 15

Essay

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BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE FILE-NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR THIS COURSE (5% penalty if you do not).

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hussein_sa_15.doc

THIS IS ASSIGNMENT 15


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In this 550 - 750 word essay (250 words is roughly one page of double-spaced 12-point font text -- so this assignment asks for 2.25 -3.25 pages of writing; see details below) answer the following question:

What can the historical experience of sex work in New York City advise us about the best approach for law enforcement to take regarding sex work today. Prove at least two and no more than four recommendations.

To be clear, then, for every recommendation you make for law enforcement today, you must explain how and why the historical experience of sex work in New York City (as documented in City of Eros and Love for Sale) leads you to that conclusion. You should have at least three quotations from City of Eros and three from Love for Sale.

Of course, you should also draw upon the arguments for and against legalization from Melissa Grant, "The War on Sex Workers" and Janice Raymond, Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution

If you attend(ed) the 10/22 talk outside of class and do not want to write a 500-word summary of that talk, you will need to include evidence or ideas from that talk in this essay; you will also need have at least 675 words in this essay.

In those paragraphs in which you present evidence (but not those, like introductions or conclusions), adopt the cl/ev/wa structure and other instructions in the gray box below.

As always, your CLAIM is the answer to the question and claims, as we have discussed, are stronger if they contain a reason.

 

1) place a (CL) before your claim, an (EV) before your evidence, and a (WA) before your warrant.

(-5% IF YOU DO NOT)

2) reduce your direct quotations to 10 or fewer words (see here if you do not know how to do this)

(-5% IF YOU DO NOT)

3) integrate your direct quotations using either METHOD 3 OR METHOD 4 FROM THE EXPLANATION OF HOW TO INTEGRATE QUOTATIONS

(-10% IF YOU DO NOT)

4) punctuate the quotation properly
(-5% IF YOU DO NOT)

 

 

END OF ASSIGNMENT