How might students exercise greater power as an interest group to exert influence over universities and the role of higher education in US society? What obstacles would students face in organizing and how might they overcome these obstacles? Your paper should go beyond mere description or providing a “book report,” or simply agreeing or disagreeing with particular sources you choose. In other words, your paper should present your original analysis of the topic you have chosen. Your paper should include an “academic” thesis. Your paper must cite at least three sources. One source must be course material, another source must be an outside academic source, and the third source can be from anywhere. Of those three sources, at least two must be academic sources (not all sources from this course are academic). You may choose to cite more sources if you deem it necessary or helpful. This paper should be an attempt to write in the format you will be expected to use post-transfer. This means that your paper should not be speaking to an uninformed audience, but rather speaking to an “academic” or “expert” audience that you will assume already understands the general nature of your topic. The body paragraphs of your paper should begin with a “topic sentence” that clearly states the major point of each paragraph. Your paragraphs should end with a “transition sentence” that links the point of that paragraph to the next paragraph. The sentences between each topic sentence and each transition sentence in each paragraph should provide evidence and argumentation that supports the paragraph’s topic sentence. In this way it should be possible for a reader to see each point you are making in your paper and how those points connect by only reading the first and last sentence of every body paragraph. Be sure to review your paper to check for this before you submit it. Your concluding paragraph should simply re-state your introduction. Think of your introduction and conclusion as “book ends” – two things that are basically the same that hold everything between them together. You should not be introducing new evidence, argumentation, or analysis in your conclusion. Unlike writing for a general audience, academic papers do not “build up” to a conclusion. Instead, the point of the entire paper is summarized at the beginning in the thesis statement and then reiterated at the end. If you find yourself writing new material in your conclusion then you have simply discovered a new important point and you should revise your introduction to include your new insight and then create a new concluding paragraph that re-states your revised introduction.