For your second essay, I would like you to reflect on a specific collective identity: its origins, its historical achievements and/or failures, and its current political agency. Here are some examples of (collective) identities: National Regional Racial Religious Ethnic Sexual Orientation Gender Class Feel free to express your personal opinion on Identity politics as a whole. Remember: your essay must be argumentative, not a mere copy-paste of your sources. Use the sources to support your personal judgement. Please note that personal does not mean informal. Details: Extension: 1000-1200 words. A bibliographical list at the end is not sufficient; In-text references are mandatory. Essays will be graded according to: 1. Structure: the general plan of the essay; the connection between ideas exposed; the inclusion of a conclusion; the existence of paragraphs corresponding to ideas or concepts. 2. Style: the absence of grammatical mistakes, the proper use of academic English corresponding to college level; the adequate use of sources and quotations. 3. Content: the level of originality in the essay, the argumentative level of the essay; the relevance of the information contained in it, without being a mere summary; the adequacy of the content to the question proposed; the logical connections between presentation of ideas and final conclusions the relevance of such conclusions without being a mere tautology.
