The purpose of this essay is to give you an opportunity to make connections between writing, revision, personal experience, and how to apply your writing skills outside of an English class. Each prompt offers a chance to practice your drafting and revision skills. Choose any one prompt. Choice 1: Effective writing may help foster change to social problems. For example in Unteaching Five-Paragraph Essay, Foley focuses on the problem of cookie-cutter essays in college, and she proposes ways to expand the range of essay organization techniques. Therefore, her writing suggests a change for a perceived problem in the higher education system. For this paper, pick a certain social issue and, in two pages or more, propose a plan for how writing could help provide a solution to this issue. Choice 2: Students tend to associate writing with a variety of classroom tasks. However, writing happens outside of college all the time. Words are written on signs, scribbled on walls, and posted on notices, and frequently they are insightful, funny, somewhat unexpected, and educational. Recall at least one instance from your life when you encountered a piece of writing outside of college or university perhaps in a poem, a picture, a sign, etc. and that piece taught you something valuable. In two pages or more, describe this event, the piece of writing that you read as well as what it taught you. Explain what you think others might learn from it.