Need an Essay Written by 10 PM (EST UTC-05:00) 4/11/21

Topics: For this essay, you will need to make your own case/argument for why reading is important. Choose one of the following ways to focus your essay:

Option 1: Make a case for the importance of reading. How does reading impact your daily life? Why will it be important in your college education or your career? Why should everyone have the opportunity to learn to read? How could this be done? Be specific with examples and details.

OR

Option 2) Make an argument supporting a claim about your school and how its approach may have influenced your attitude about reading today.

Think about your own education. Do you remember how your school (name your school) reinforced or taught reading skills? Was there something your school did to help you with learning how to read? Did it help create a love of reading? What type of reading? Or was there something your school did that gave you a negative impression about reading? Did it influence you to not read much on your own? Be specific about this by naming a specific activity or approach. Is this something other schools should do or not do? Explain why or why not.

Requirements for all papers:

This paper will need to be at least 3 full, typed pages plus a Works Cited page. The paper will need to be set up in MLA format.

You will need to develop a strong thesis that sets up your argument and includes your stand on the issue and your main points for support.

This paper does require research; however, the majority of the paper should be your examples and ideas. No more than about 20-25% of the paper should be from any source.

Required Research: You will need to use the following for research and support for all essays:

1) you will need to use at least one quote (you can use more, but try not to go over 3) from the essay by Kozol in the Madden text,

2) you will need to use at least two quotes (no more than 4) from an academic (scholarly) article found through the library’s database called Academic Search Complete on the topic of literacy or reading (or reading education, specific programs, etc.) that relates to your topic. This cannot be a review, blog, or opinion piece. You need to check your source to make sure it will work for your paper. This could be the one you found for the MLA Exercise, or something else. I must be able to find this article in the database, so be careful with documentation.

If you need help finding sources, be sure to ask a UC Librarian.

3) you will need to use your own experiences for support throughout the paper. This is a required element. This will help give the paper your voice. Be specific with school names and other details. When you talk about your own experiences, you may use “I,” but still avoid “you.”

4) For this size of paper, you don’t need sources beyond this. Any additional source must be scholarly/academic. If you use additional sources, you must still use all of the MLA documentation details required for any source.

The use of any plagiarized ideas, quotes, paraphrases, or summaries will fail the paper.

Documentation:

In-text Citations: All papers must use MLA documentation to correctly cite any and all quotes, paraphrases or summaries used in the paper. In-text cites must be provided each time a source is used to indicate what information is not your own. Remember to use this general format: Signal phrase, “quote” (author page). A paper that does not correctly do this or that has any plagiarized passages will not pass. See Hacker and Class Information for more details.

Any source used in the paper must also have a corresponding entry on the Works Cited page. For example, you can use Kozol three times in the paper, but you only need to give it once on the Works Cited page.

Plus,

The paper must include a Works Cited page at the end of the paper that is included when the paper is submitted. This should have at least two sources on it—the Kozol essay and your research article.

These sources must be set up according to MLA guidelines (see Hacker p. 474 for a visual).

Remember, any source listed on the Works Cited page must have at least one corresponding in-text citation in the paper.

A paper that does not have a completed Works Cited page included when the paper is submitted by the Due Date will not pass.