Cigarette Smoking: Annotated Bibliography
Write a comparative essay
Award-winning author Sonia Nazario is best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Enrique’s Journey. The book brings to life the very real and dangerous journey of a Honduran boy fleeing his home in hopes of finding his mother in America. In addition to the biography, Nazario has written countless articles informing readers of the dangers children like Enrique face. While the biography and the articles serve the same purpose and present the same ideas, they do so in different ways. You will be comparing and contrasting how Nazario informs her audience through a biography and an editorial. You may access the editorial here and the biography here.
Write a comparative essay in which you compare and contrast the way Sonia Nazario presents similar ideas in a biography and an editorial. Support your comparison with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient evidence from both texts. Apply MLA guidelines to properly cite the evidence used in your essay. Be sure your essay uses formal and objective language.
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Cigarette Smoking: Annotated Bibliography
Research questions
- What are the socioeconomic effects of cigarette smoking in the global context?
- What are the effects of smoking on a person’s health?
- Why is it hard to quit smoking?
The annotated bibliography will adopt the specific research question, “What are the socioeconomic effects of cigarette smoking in the global context?” for analysis.
Article 1: Ekpu, V. U., & Brown, A. K. (2015). The Economic Impact of Smoking and of Reducing Smoking Prevalence: Review of Evidence. Tobacco use insights, 8, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.4137/TUI.S15628
The article discusses the costs of cigarette smoking in the U.K. and the world. According to the authors, cigarette smoking, whether passive or active, has economic and health effects. WHO claims that around 6 million die annually…