Please complete and use one of the assigned topics.

Writing Assignment 2 An Explanation and Requirements

Introduction In preparation for your research essay (the argumentation essay), you will complete your research and include the sources. Your sources must consist of scholarly journal articles along with quotations you plan to use as support for your research essay, an argumentative essay.

Explanation: You must locate five sources to use in the research essay and submit those in Writing Assignment 2. You must include the source and an annotation for each. See the example on the second page.

Your Annotation Requirements For this class, your annotation should consist of six-to-ten good sentences (compound sentences, complex sentences, compound-complex sentences and no more than one or two simple sentences).

Those six-to-ten sentences should include the following: • A three-to-four sentence summary of the article, focusing on the main points of the article, revealing the

research method the author or authors conducted to formulate their conclusion(s), and the research findings (or conclusions).

• Your critical evaluation or assessment of the source, including how you can see it informing your own essay. (Obviously, you should not include any sources that you do not consider relevant to your topic.)

Your critical evaluation should include answers to the following questions (not in any particular order – just

answer the questions):

• Which side does each article support: your stance or your opposition’s?

• How can you use this source within your essay? o Could you use it background information concerning common debates? (You may use no more than one source

background information.)

o Could you use it to develop your anticipation (your understanding of your opposition’s stance)? o Could you use it to develop your refutation (your argument to counter your opposition’s stance)?

Determining Quality Quotations: Below each annotation, you must include source quotations that you could use to support your anticipation or refutation. If you have indicated within the annotation that the source will help you write your anticipation, then the quotations should provide details about the opposition’s stance. If you have indicated within your annotation that the source will help you with your refutation, then the quotations should provide details about research that supports your stance.

• As you read through your sources, highlight quotations that will help you as you write your own essay. Does the research support your stance or does it provide insight into the opposition’s stance?

• Does the quotation mention the research results: the study and the conclusions derived from that study? Remember: someone’s opinion about something is not worthy of a quotation. You are looking for research-based

conclusions that support your stance, especially if you are writing any type of an argument based on the sciences or social sciences: medical/pharmacology, psychology, sociology, et cetera. Please do not write even some researcher’s opinion unless his or her opinion is grounded in the results of scientific research. o You will need to number these quotations and place the quotations in quotation marks and provide an in-text

citation at the end of each quotation OUTSIDE the closed quotation mark. A period should follow the closed parenthesis. See the MLA folder under Writing Resources for correct citation format.

NOTE: You may use first-person pronouns when you are explaining how you can use the source. For example, “I can use this source to inform my annotation as it provides insight into my opposition’s stance.”

Additional Requirements: • All sources must come from journal articles that you can retrieve from Galileo.

• Your research must include three sources that support your argument and two sources that support your opposition. o Note: You may not use dictionaries, encyclopedias, random websites (non-credible,), or any other

source of which the credibility is questionable as research sources (e.g. Wikipedia, blogs, .com sites, etcetera).

• You will, of course, use MLA formatting and compose your document in Microsoft Word, so you will include the following:

o Submit your assignment as a Word document! Any other format will receive the grade of 0. o One-inch margins all the way around o Times New Roman, 12-point font o True double spacing – remember to remove the space before and after paragraph o An inserted page number, including your last name and a space between your name and number

▪ (Remember to change the font and the font size in the page number because they will revert to default (Calibri 11pt).)

o An MLA heading – NOT a running header in the page number section—with your first and last names, instructor name, English 1101, the due date (The MLA heading is left-justified at the one-inch margin.)

o A tentative title followed by the phrase ‘Research (Example: To Vote or Not to Vote- That is the Question: Research)

o Each source formatted with a hanging indent. o Sources should appear in alphabetical order based on the author’s (or if you have more than one author,

the first author’s) last name. If you have no author, use the first letter of the title to determine alphabetical order.)

o The second line of the source should be indented ½ inch from the one-inch margin. o Press the ‘tab’ key two times before typing the annotation paragraph. All subsequent lines of the

annotation paragraph will fall under the ½ indented second line of the hanging indent. See the example below on the next page.

Xu, Jianhua, Qi Kang, Zhiqiang Song, and Christopher P Clarke. "Applications of Mobile Social

Media:Wechat Among Academic Libraries in China." Journal of Academic

Librarianship 41.1 (2015): 21-30. Academic Search Complete. Web. 1 Apr. 2015.

You should start typing your brief summary of the source here after pressing the

tab key. See the information above in Your Annotation Requirements to determine what

information to include in your annotation. All other lines of your annotation and the

numbered quotations should fall under the second line of the source entry as this line

does.

1. “Your first quotation will begin under the second line of your annotation” (page

number).

2. “You should include at least three quotations from each source” (page number).

3. “Each quotation can be one – two sentences, but please do not include block

quotations inyour research essay” (page number).