English Paper

In a well-developed 2-3 page essay (not including the Works Cited page), write an essay in which you answer one of the prompts below. You must include information from at least one additional or outside source that you find on your own, as well.

Use the articles in the “Unit 5: Final Exam” tab. Do not quote Wikipedia or use it as a source! You may choose ONE of the following to write about:

· Is college for everyone? Does the world tend to agree with your own position or disagree, and why? What evidence from these articles (and the one you find on your own) supports your position?

· What are the largest challenges facing those who want to go to college, and isi it worth it to try and find a way to overcome them? Is it worth the investment of time, money, and mental power that it takes to attend and be successful in college?

Give your paper an interesting title.

You must include at least one direct quote from each of the two articles, as well as the one you find on your own. These quotes must be properly formatted and cited, both in the text and in a Works Cited at the end of your paper. Failure to properly cite a source can result in charges of plagiarism. Plagiarism information may be reviewed in the “Reference Documents & Videos” tab, under the “Plagiarism Information” folder.

Your final draft must be in MLA style

1. Use MLA style correctly !

. Times New Roman, 12-pt. font

. Double-spaced (with additional space between paragraphs of the same style removed)

. Header with your last name, space, page number

. Left-aligned with each paragraph indented half an inch

. Works Cited at the end on its own page with a hanging indent for the entries

· Use proper in-text citations for our authors (and any you find on your own)

. Jon Kolko is an internet article without page numbers. In the text, he should be cited this way (Kolko).

. Isabel Own and Stephanie Sawhill both wrote the other article, which is a PDF with page numbers included.  Be sure to spell out the "and" and add page numbers in their in-text citations, like this (Owen and Sawhill 3).

· DO NOT NARRATE YOURSELF!!!  The paper is not about you!

. Do not tell me what you are going to do or what you are going to talk about.  Just do it.

. I will TAKE OFF MAJOR POINTS for any of the following phrases in your paper:

. "I will discuss/tell you/explain/examine"

. "This paper will"

. "In conclusion"

. "I think"/"I believe"/"In my experience"/etc.

. "While researching this paper, I found/I learned/I saw"/etc.

. Any personal experience you have had

· Avoid all signal phrases; there are other types of transitions.  Do not use things like "first," "second," and "third/last" or simply list the three things you will talk about.

· Be very careful of names!  Be certain you are spelling people's names correctly, and that auto-correct is not trying to mess you up.  DeForest on the last paper came out many ways:  Defrost, Deforst, Deforrester, and even Defense!

· Write the paper as if no one on earth has any clue what you are supposed to be writing about or that you were given any articles to start off with.

· If you use any quotes with the author's name in the sentence, you need to introduce the author and give a reason your reader should trust him/her.

· If you only use author's names in parenthetical citations, you still need to introduce the quote and integrate it well, so that it flows well with your own sentence, almost as if it is not a quote at all.

· Do NOT just throw a quote into the paragraph without integration.  A quote should NEVER stand alone.  It should have your own words either in front, behind, or even interspersed in the middle of it.  

Link to Article

http://www.jonkolko.com/writingScaleEducation.php