Argumentative Essay On Speeding in communities
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The academic essay Assignment in this unit will be a written, cohesive argument for the change in your community or workplace that you have been writing about throughout the course. The Assignment should take the form of a persuasive academic essay, in which you will provide reliable evidence from at least four sources to support the argument for change that you are advocating. You will also need to address a counter- argument or misconception about your topic within the essay, as the ability to do so is a key component of a strong argument. Essentially, the essay will reflect what you have learned about writing effectively, using research, and creating a logical argument to influence an audience.
In accordance with the Plagiarism Policy, students must not self-plagiarize by submitting an Assignment for two different grades; therefore, you must not submit a paper for this Assignment that has been graded in whole or in part for another class, whether at this University or another institution. For further insights on self- plagiarism, please review WC’s resource, “Self- Plagiarism”.
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Your persuasive essay will need to meet the following criteria:
APA 6th Edition format for the document, including an appropriately formatted title page and References page
A thesis statement at the end of the introduction paragraph
Welldeveloped paragraphs that include evidence from sources to support your argument for a specific change
Assignment Details
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in your community or workplace
Four reliable sources should be cited within the text of
the Assignment; at least one of the cited sources should
be either a book/ebook or a periodical article, preferably
from the Library.
All cited sources need to have full citations on a
References page (except for any interviews you
conduct, which only require intext citations)
Standard American English and a formal tone
throughout the writing
Only the third person point of view should be used
Achieving the above criteria should be your main goal with your academic essay. A strong and well-supported argument will be at least 4 pages (1,000 words long), not including the title page and references page.
If you are interested in receiving feedback on a draft version of your persuasive essay, reach out to the University Writing Center for tutoring services. You can find further information about the available services on the WC website: Paper Review and Q&A Services. Also, review the following WC resources for guidance on APA manuscript formatting, APA citation formatting, using evidence from sources, and revising:
WC: “Common Citations in APA Format” WC: “Citing Sources Tutorial”
WC: “APA Sample Title Page” (video or PDF)
Click the following link to access the grading rubric your instructor will use when assessing your Assignment: Unit 8 Assignment Rubric.
Click the following link to see a sample Assignment: Unit 8 Assignment Sample.
Turnitin Analysis
A special feature is available to help you with reviewing your Unit 8 Assignment for plagiarism. When you submit your Assignment to the Unit 8 Dropbox, it will
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automatically be analyzed by the plagiarism detection
tool, Turnitin. Soon after you submit your Assignment,
you will be able to view the Turnitin Originality Report.
Originality Reports provide a summary of matching or
highly similar text found in a submitted paper. When an
Originality Report is available for viewing, an icon will
appear in the report column of the Assignment Inbox.
Originality Reports are only available in the Inbox. For
this reason, you will need to download the report prior to
the grading of the Unit 8 Assignment. To do this, click on
the print icon at the bottom of the Originality Report. This
will prepare a readable, PDF version of the Originality
Report that you can save to your computer.
Submitting your Unit 8 Assignment:
Remember that you must use Word for this and all
Assignments submitted for this class in order to be
reviewed and graded by the instructor. When you are
ready to submit it, go to the Unit 8 Assignment Dropbox
and attach your work.
To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or
go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated
it.