Wk 5 Apply Your Chosen Tools-Final Paper. COVID-19.

Apply Your Chosen Tools
This is the capstone English course. If you followed a traditional sequence, it might be the last undergraduate course you take, or the last English course you take. This final project gives you an opportunity to demonstrate and synthesize what you have learned through your studies to raise your writing skills and practices to a new level.
For this assignment, you will create a persuasive rhetorical text that applies your chosen rhetorical tools to a specific target audience in one of three different forms. The purpose is to provide you an opportunity to demonstrate your mastery of the rhetorical tools studied throughout this course and prior classes in English, rhetoric, writing, and communications.
Select your general topic in Week 2. Any topic that is a matter of public discussion may be considered. In Week 2, you will also examine the intra-disciplinary discussion of the primary disciplines shaping your topic. In Week 3, you will study the inter- and extra-disciplinary or public debate on your topic. In Week 4, you will choose leading or seminal texts relevant to your topic. While working on these assignments, develop your topic into a thesis. This will assist you in developing your final assignment.
In addition to selecting your topic, you will also select an appropriate genre for your final project. This selection should flow logically from your analysis of debates in the field: if all major public debate in the field occurs through, for example, passionate editorials, writing a highly academic research paper may not be appropriate. Feel free to adapt one or more of the formats or genres used in the Week 4 examination of influential texts, if that is most fitting. For example, a student writing on social justice might borrow from Thoreau’s essay “On Civil Disobedience,” while a student seeking to expose an accepted practice as unethical might echo the savage satire of Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal."
Finally, determine what constitutes appropriate support in this project. Some projects will require considerable research, which will appear in the form of citations, or through the prose cadences and metaphors used, echoing specific earlier influential texts; for example, King’s speech, "I Have a Dream."
The assignments in Weeks 1 through 4 are meant to provide you with the support for your final paper, so refer to these assignments to gather information and citations for the final written assignment.
Use the following frameworks as guidelines and starting points:
Select a topic that is the subject of public debate. Examples might include the following:
• Climate change
• The nature of representative government
• What is love?
• Ethical behavior in a changing world
• Responsibility of the developed world to the developing world
• Abortion
• Balancing multiculturalism with a specific faith or tradition
• Another topic, as approved by your instructor
Identify a thesis relating to your selected topic. 
• This written work should be the culmination of your previous weeks’ work.
• The work should demonstrate a heightened awareness of your writing and reasoning developed through the Week 1 essay.
• The work should demonstrate familiarity with the major disciplines shaping understanding of your topic, developed through the Week 2 paper.
• The work should show mastery of your historical context, developed through the Week 3 paper.
• The work should position itself in relation to the major texts in the field. Familiarity with these major texts was developed through the Week 4 annotated bibliography.
The project should also borrow rhetorical techniques and approaches from the appropriate disciplines, address traditional pivot points in the debates, and incorporate key elements of major texts. In doing the latter, you should build your ethos through demonstrating understanding of these major texts, answering their weaknesses, and applying their valid reasoning in new ways.
Option A:
• Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word research paper, or traditional essay on the subject. 
• Develop your selected written work to support your thesis and topic, and the elements noted above. Information from your Weeks’ 1 through 4 assignments should be included in your written work.
• Incorporate at least six supporting credible sources. 
• Format your paper consistent with MLA guidelines.
I have included weeks 1-4 papers for your reference.  My topic is COVID-19 and its effect on mental health of Americans.