Deaths caused by school shootings clearly show the need to develop programs to improve students' mental health.

Explain what you learned by comparing two very different texts

According to the two articles attached (Check files)

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  1. Describe one major difference in (One paragraph)

a. Audience

b.Purpose

c. Literature genre

  1. Summarize each of your sources (Two paragraphs: One paragraph for article 1; One paragraph for article 2)
  2. Discuss how their arguments compare (Two paragraphs)

a. What do they agree on?

b. How did they build on each other?

c. What did you learn from one source that you didn’t learn from the other source?

d. Which do you think was most useful to helping you understand the topic and why?

e. Was that related to the information included, or the way that information was "packaged"?

  1. Analyze the rhetorical choices made by each text, paying particular attention to how the sources differ. You'll want to consider how they are different (in terms of audience, purpose, and genre) including (One paragraph):

a. What stylistic choices they make

b. How their differences shape how these texts can participate in the conversation