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Final Research Essay HCC/English 1302

Your final assignment, a research paper, will incorporate the skills you have developed throughout this course and will develop new skills in research. For this assignment, you will:

• Generate your own personalized topic based upon the prompts. • Make an argument about your topic. This argument must be clearly stated in a working thesis statement.

All body paragraphs must be focused and organized while clearly relating back to your thesis. • Research sources appropriate to your topic and effectively use those sources as evidence to support

and prove your thesis. • Cite all sources using MLA Format. Your paper must include proper parenthetical citations and a Works

Cited page.

Your research paper must be 8-10 pages, typed, double-spaced, in 12-point font, and in MLA format.

*A Few Notes about Required Sources: Your sources must be reputable and reliable. Good sources include the following:  newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, etc.)  magazines (Time, Newsweek, etc.)  books  scholarly journals 

Remember that a well-researched paper will include a variety of sources. Also remember that for academic papers, books and scholarly journals tend to provide the best information. All of your sources must be from current (2000 or later) books, articles, and websites.

Due Dates and Other Information Important for this Paper

1. Monday, April 9: You must submit your topic for approval form. At this point, your topic may be broad. We will work in class on narrowing and focusing topics.

2. Wednesday, April 11: Research Proposal Due 3. Wednesday, April 18: Annotated Bibliography of at least five possible sources.

It is mandatory that you meet each of the three requirements above. Five points will be deducted from your final grade for each of the requirements missed.

4. 5.

a peer revision workshop on this day. Bring copies (2) of your essay In Class Workshop Second draft due. Turn in both drafts of your essay, along with the revision response forms your peers completed for you. Late second drafts

will receive no credit, but I will give you as much feedback as I can in the time allotted.

Failure to turn in a second draft will result in automatic failure of this course.

Wednesday, April 25: Research Day (Class Will Not Meet) Monday, April 28: First draft due. (No late first drafts accepted) You will participate in

Wednesday, May 02: Wednesday, May 09: