Your essay should make an effective argument about your chosen topic to an academic audience. A strong argument establishes the relevance of the argument, addresses the opposition to your claim, and supports the argument with specific, credible evidence and analysis. To support your ideas, you must integrate at least four (4) scholarly sources, two (2) of which will be academic journal articles.
Assignment Guidelines
1. Your essay must follow a formal essay structure, to include an introduction with a detailed thesis, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
2. Your essay must be at least four (4) complete pages in MLA format with an additional Works Cited page to document at least four sources.
3. All source material must be credible and appropriate to the academic community.
4. Two of your four sources should be academic journal articles. When in doubt about a source’s credibility, please ask!
5. In your introduction, you should open by engaging your reader in the topic. After you introduce the purpose of your paper generally, move into a specific thesis to state your position and your major reasons. This thesis sets up the organizational frame and focus of the paper.
6. In each body paragraph, you should use specific examples (quotes or paraphrases) to “show, not tell” your topic sentences. Make sure you add analysis after each example to show WHY that evidence is relevant to your point. You should organize each paragraph using M.E.A.L., and include transitions, both within the paragraphs and between them, to guide your reader smoothly.
7. In your conclusion, you should summarize your main points and then end with the “so what?,” where you explain your paper’s significance and greater implications.
8. You should smoothly and ethically integrate your quotes with proper in-text citations. These citations must correspond to the Works Cited page. All documentation must be in 8th edition MLA format (textbook pp. 193 ff.)
Public Piece Project
As you decide on your topic and craft your argument for the research paper, remember that you will be creating/writing a public representation of your argument for a different audience. This will be final major assignment of the semester.
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