- Construct a text that incorporates critical reading, analyzing, and interaction with sources.
- Construct a text that demonstrates an understanding of the elements of argumentation.
- Show fluency within the various stages of the writing process.
- Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Instructions
- Incorporate the feedback you have been given as you compile all of the sections of your researched argument paper in this order:
- Introduction
- Background
- Argument
- Conclusion
- References/bibliography (no annotations)
- The paper will be a minimum of 3200 words, not including references. It should have a minimum of 9 authoritative and pertinent sources, including statistics, books, and scholarly journal articles. This can be your 8 sources from the annotated bibliography assignments and your personal interview. You may use dictionaries or encyclopedias (sparingly) and the Bible, but they do not count toward the 9 sources. You may not use Wikipedia, about.com, Wikihow, Sparknotes, etc. or personal blogs without prior permission from the instructor.
- As you compile your paper, attend to transitions between sections, since you have written them separately.
- You will be graded on: Explanation of issues, Exploration of context and assumptions, Your position, Conclusion and related outcomes, Composing, Sources and evidence, Syntax and mechanics, and Revision.
