English1150 week5

EN1150: Week 5 Assignment

When explaining your point of view, how do you effectively argue? This assignment helps you apply your knowledge from this week’s module and textbook readings. Writing in the form of an argumentative essay is one of the most important genres that a student of writing can learn. Developing good argumentative skills helps you to express your point of view, as well as, allows you to use research skills in order to develop a credible argument based upon fact rather than feelings or emotions. Learning how to develop an argument is a valuable professional skill which requires organization and critical thinking skills. Paraphrasing Review Two writing techniques that help students avoid plagiarism are summarizing and paraphrasing. Interactive 5A provides a formal presentation about paraphrasing, and it is recommended that you review the interactive before proceeding with this section. Donetta wrote the following body paragraph about the importance of vaccinating children. Her topic sentence and her concluding sentence are both in bold to show you how paraphrasing is typically used in essay writing. The United States should create a law requiring all children to be vaccinated within their first two years of life. To start, vaccinations protect children from diseases that have the potential to end their lives. According to the CDC, an increase in measles resulted in 20 deaths in the year 2016 (Emerson, 2018). Second, most information about the risks of vaccinations is not accurate. To be specific, John Hopkins University published a report in 2017 which debunked the top 10 misconceptions about vaccinations which were trending online at the time of publication (Katz, 2017). To sum up, a law which mandates that all parents vaccinate their children within the first two years after birth should be enacted by the United States. Directions: Paraphrase each sentence in order to avoid plagiarism. Public schools should be required to teach computer literacy classes to students by the 9th grade. Dallas, Texas has one of the highest car accident rates in the United States according to a report published by USA Today. Summarizing Practice Summarizing allows the writer to take a topic or issue and focus on the main ideas in order to help the reader understand a complex issue. Summarizing often happens when a reader boils down the main idea of an article and explains it to the reader in an essay. However, as an allied healthcare professional, you may have to summarize important information which occurs in real time on the job in a report to your supervisor, or to update a patient’s file. You can review summarizing in Interactive 5B. Directions: Watch the following VIDEO about an interaction between a patient and a doctor and summarize the incident that took place in the space below. Research and Writing A well-chosen source can add credibility to an argument that you wish to make when you are writing an essay. It introduces concrete facts or expert opinions by knowledgeable people in the field which you are writing about. Define primary source: Define secondary source: Define tertiary source: APA Citation Format When you use outside sources in a research paper, you are expected to cite them in order to avoid plagiarism. While there are a variety of citation formats, APA is most commonly used with research papers. Watch this VIDEO about APA format and then answer the following questions. Write an APA citation for one of the credible sources that you need to cite in the References page of your paper. You can use the link provided HERE to help you. Explain why you decided to use the source you chose in #7 Describe how the source you chose in #7 improved the quality of your essay. Reflection For Assignment 5B, you are required to upload and submit a typed final draft of your assignment. In Week 4, you were advised to seek additional support and feedback on your essay before submitting your final draft. Directions: Explain how feedback you received on your rough draft from Week 4 helped you improve your final draft.

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