Delayed Gratification
Think deeply about delayed gratification—what it is, when it is a good strategy, and how one might be successful at doing it. Support your argument with information from the articles you have read or others you locate yourself and/or with examples from your own life or from the lives of people you know.
If you want to use your sources most effectively to support your argument, it’s not enough to simply include them as a series of unrelated sources; you need to tie them together, explain their relationships with each other, and express your conclusions about them. This process is called synthesizing. Because your essay is an argument, you will want to follow the conventions for arguments. Documentation.
When you quote, paraphrase, or summarize ideas from the articles you have read, be sure to provide appropriate documentation and to include a works cited list at the end of your essay. You must include quotes and/or paraphrases from at least two sources.
For this, your second paper, you will build on the expertise you have developed on delayed gratification. You will write a paper on delayed gratification for incoming students at HCC. There are no “right” answers. You are trying to be helpful to students who may not know much about delayed gratification. Surely there are times when it will pay off to delay gratification, and surely there are times (or situations) when immediate gratification is appropriate.
Explain, in a thoughtful way, when each of these is the case.
Additionally, offer some strategies (personal or academic) for some thoughtful exploration of strategies for delaying gratification (when that’s the appropriate choice).
THIS IS AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY.
