Writing

Explanatory Synthesis Thesis Statement, Introduction, Outline, and Conclusion due. You are not submitting a full draft of your essay this week.

The final draft of your Explanatory Synthesis is due at the end of Unit 4.

First, review the Explanatory Synthesis Essay Assignment, due in Unit 4.  This week, you are writing your thesis statement, outline, introductory paragraph, and concluding paragraph for your essay. You are not submitting a full draft this week. 

The Explanatory Synthesis Introduction, Outline, and Conclusion Assignment and Rubric for this week can be found here.

Required Readings

These readings are to be used to support your explanatory synthesis introduction, outline, and conclusion:

*Login using your library barcode to access the following readings. Click on the Library tab in Blackboard, login with your library barcode, and then click on the links below.

• Should This Kid Be Making $225,047 a Year Playing College Football” by Sean Gregory.

            http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=90102203&site=eds-live&scope=site

• Paying College Athletes” by Justin D. Garda

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e0h&AN=102781423&site=eds-live&scope=site

• "Should College Student-Athletes Be Paid?” by Mitchell and Edelman

            http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=93386222&site=eds-live&scope=site

•  “Why N.C.A.A. Athletes Shouldn’t Be Paid” by Ekow N. Yankah

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/why-ncaa-athletes-shouldnt-be-paid

• “The Myth of Parity” by Scoop Jackson

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/9666004/pay-play-answer-college-athletics

• “College Athletes Deserve to be Paid” by Michael Wilbon

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6778847/college-athletes-deserve-paid

For an example of a synthesis in APA format, you can view this Explanatory Synthesis.

Review how to write and organize an explanatory synthesis and how to write an outline:

• A reading on how to prepare and organize an Explanatory Synthesis Essay from University of Arkansas.  
• Here are some guiding questions to keep you on track with your Explanatory Synthesis.

Videos

An outline is helpful in any assignment to organize your ideas before writing and creating your first draft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCujEU6xZS0

Richard Sherman talks about how he wished he could could have taken better advantage of his education at Stanford University. This video is a great precursor to your explanatory synthesis subject:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIdOKqga8NU

The Explanatory Synthesis will require your new skills in summary and critique to choose your readings to incorporate into the essay and to form your own thesis. The thesis will be your own idea that you created after reading the articles. After reading through the articles and how to write an Explanatory Synthesis, choose three or more of the required readings (listed below) to incorporate into your essay introduction, outline, and conclusion. The introduction, outline, and conclusion must include APA in-text citations and references to avoid plagiarism. 

Follow these guidelines to write your Explanatory Synthesis Introduction, Outline, and Conclusion:

• Include an APA title page
• Include APA in-text citations wherever you reference the text.
• Include a reference page in APA format.
• Be objective and avoid using “I,” “you,” and “we.”

Students:  Be sure to read the criteria, by which your paper/project will be evaluated, before you write, and again after you write.