ENGL

Due date: April 19th, 2019, 11:59 pm

Basic guidelines

Your ROUGH DRAFT paper must be in MLA format and in paragraph form with complete sentences.

It should be between two and a half pages to four pages long plus a Works Cited page.

The writing should be in Standard American English, well-structured, easy to follow, free from personal references and unnecessary wordiness.

Your introduction should

· Begin with a hook that gets the reader’s attention

· Present the subject of your evaluation: “the person, place, thing, event, or phenomenon that you are evaluating” (Ramage et al. 371).

· Show why evaluating X (the topic and subtopic you are judging) is controversial or matters

· Present your evaluation claim and your criteria

Your purpose

· Judge whether or not the topic and subtopic you choose to discuss are up to standard, meaning: do they match the 3 criteria each body paragraph will discuss

Each body paragraph should

· State a criterion and defend it if necessary

· Show that X meets or does not meet the criterion

Treatment of alternative or opposing views

· Summarize objections to your criteria or your match

· Respond to these objections

Each reference to a source should

· Introduce the source using an attributive tag (Ramage et al. 555)

· Quote or summarize the important information from that source

· Explain the significance of the information from the source

· Include a correct MLA in-text citation which is also referenced in the final Works Cited page

Your conclusion should

· Sum up your evaluation.

A final note

The chart on the bottom of page 324 in your textbook provides a fairly straightforward outline instructing you how to write the essay step by step. Check the Citations tab in eCampus to make sure you’ve followed MLA Works Cited and in-text citations correctly (or also email me!)