One of the required essay prompts is “Pick a story of local, national, or international importance from the front page of any newspaper. Identify your source and give the date the article appeared. Then use your sense of humor, sense of outrage, sense of injustice—or just plain good sense—to explain why the story engages your attention.”
I am a little lost on my options on choosing the story for my essay… Since there aren’t really front pages of newspapers anymore online. Can I just use any article and cite my sources or what? For anyone applying to macaulay honors program, what did you do?
I’m sure that as long as you can source the original story you can choose any news outlet/medium.
I would start by asking myself, “what current event am I passionate about?” Then I would search for the headline and go from there.
Be careful about using far right or far left sources. You may be passionate one way or the other - but you never know who will be reading your essay.
Good luck!
Yeah I had that in consideration whilst thinking about a topic, but I think I’ll probably choose an article about children worldwide who aren’t registered at birth and how this causes a lot of issues in their lives and how it’s very important that we work towards helping them and future born children. What do you think?
If you feel strongly about it, and you can find an article about it, it sounds good.
Good luck!