Synthesis Essay on Indocumented Immigrants in the US

In my ENC 1101 class, we were required to go through several of processes to map out the formula of writing our final assignment in our class: a synthesis essay. The most imperative part of our assignment was to choose a synthesis essay question on a list that our professor gave us. The second most vital ingredient in the formula was to choose two texts from our Allyn Bacon Guide to Writing book which would be the backbone of our synthesis essay that we would have to expand on and create our own ideas from. The question that I choose to further my vague knowledge on immigration was: What should the United States do to make progress in solving the problem of undocumented immigration? The texts and ideas that I write about to answer my†¦show more content†¦Seeing the many sides of the immigration conflict, I believe the Congress should allow undocumented immigrants to live in America, but they must show that they are an asset to America. Despite the fact that Williams writes for a call to action for the resolution of immigration in the United States, his article is a blog article written for his blog followers. Williams article is not intended for scholarly audiences, while Hansons article is. Hansons article is published on the History News Network, which requires great thought and reviewing, whereas Williams is just required to write an article and post on the Huffington Post in his profile, without an editor to review the contents of the article. Williams is free to voice his opinion in whichever language he desires due to it being a blog article, and Hanson is not. However, due to this being so, Hansons article proves to more credible that Williams article, especially due to the fact that Hanson is a military historian and political essayist. But, Williams article provides pathos in his article by including a personal anecdote in the introduction of it. The anecdote transcends the article to his purpose of explaining the political part of the immigr ation issue, making his standpoint and call to action clear. But then again, Hanson writes with logos, making his readers look