Sample Synthesis Essay：样品的合成的文章.ppt

Sample Synthesis Essay Prompt: Television has been influential in United States presidential elections since the 1960’s. But just what is this influence, and how has it affected who is elected? Has it made elections fairer and more accessible, or has it moved candidates from pursuing issues to pursuing image? Read the following sources (including any introductory information) carefully. Then, in an essay that synthesizes at least three of the sources for support, take a position that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that television has had a positive impact on presidential elections. You may refer to the sources by their titles (Source A, Source B, etc.) or by the descriptions in parentheses. Source A (Campbell) Source B (Hart and Triece) Source C (Menand) Source D (Chart) Source E (Ranney) Source F (Koppel) Opening Our country, The United States of America, employs a peculiar sort of governing system: democracy. Simply by definition, democracy’s goal as a system of rule for the people implies that the greatest number of people possible should be involved. Although the media’s mission of supplying pertinent information to the masses follows democratic ideals in definition, the media’s impact upon American society, especially in the area of presidential elections, has done little to increase participation in the political process and by doing so, has created a new sort of identity for the president himself. Body Paragraph One The basic assumption of using the media to relay “news” to the people is not a bad one: television has brought widespread “penetration,” “geographic distribution,” and a “feeling of direct contact” to the people of America (Source A). Spanning the distance between two oceans, our country is too large for direct, personal contact between legislators and citizens, and television has allowed thousands of people the opportunity to be informed with national events. Between 1960 and 1980, the number of homes watching p