Focus Paper 3: Empire of AI

writing a third 1-page Focus Paper to help us to continue to explore and identify answers to our working research question about AI.

• Our research source for this paper will be Empire of AI: Chapters 5 or 6 and we will be using templates from They Say I Say Chapters 1-3 & 7 to help us to craft our argument.
• No additional sources are needed.
• You may quote or paraphrase from Introduction to College Research if desired, but you are not required to include this text as a research source.

Crafting the Focus Paper

Writing a 1-page Focus Paper requires us to not only focus our analysis on one argument posited in the text, but also to practice writing concisely.

Structure

Former students in this class have found it helpful to think of the one-page Focus Paper as structured like a body paragraph in a research paper with:

• An introductory sentence: providing context for the topic (subject) of your Focus Paper
• A topic sentence in which you state the subject of the paper clearly and make your point about your chosen topic.
• 2-4 supporting sentences in which you clarify your point and provide evidence both from your personal experience and the text: Empire of AI
• A concluding sentence that provides a “statement of findings” as a result of your research (in other words, what did you learn/discover that is helping you to explore/answer your research question).

Templates

In this Focus Paper, we will be putting what we have learned from Chapters 1- 3 & 7 of They Say I Say into practice, including:

• Analyzing and Summarizing the author’s argument
• Integrating research: quotes/paraphrases from Empire of AI into our writing
• including MLA in text citations.
• Using your experience to support and clarify, in concert with the text (Empire of AI) to clarify and support your point.

Please use the templates from Chapters 1- 3 & 7 They Say I Say to structure your writing, to clearly state your position on one of the author’s arguments in Chapter 1, 2 or 3, to integrate research [quote(s)/paraphrase(s)] from your primary source (Empire of AI), and to incorporate your personal experience with AI.

• You must include at least one template in each Focus Paper.
• Type all templates used in bold font.