Letter and 3 pages

Description:

You will submit a 3-5 page presentation for an academic, professional, or community event of your choosing. You should strive to choose an event that interests you personally—something that you care about. You may fictionalize this as much as you wish. Please use all the grammar, syntax, and style points that you have learned throughout this semester. Be prepared to identify them in your text and explain why you choose to use certain ones. This presentation may range from formal to relatively informal. You may use some colloquial language for effect and to establish an atmosphere but the core of the paper should be in Standard English.

Sources: All references should be relevant to the topic. Care should be taken to cite all sources, ideas– modified or summarized – used in the paper to avoid plagiarism. Citations must be in MLA or APA format. Please consult a minimum of 1 scholarly source and 2 popular sources to support your views and arguments in the paper. For scholarly sources, please visit the UMUC library (http://umuc.edu/library/library.shtml). If you have questions about researching sources for your paper, please take advantage of some the excellent sites and tutorials available at UMUC: Finding Books, Evaluating Internet Resources, and Research Skills Tutorial.

Audience: Base your paper on the audience description that you submitted as part of your proposal. If you wish to modify this somewhat as you work on your AA final, you may do so.

Structure: Use the following as a rough guide; you may rearrange or be creative in this. Your choice should be a function of your audience and the topic you are addressing.

· Introduction: This section should be used to set up the topic and establish the focus of your project to capture the attention of your audience. It should contain a clear, strong, and personal thesis.

· Background: In this section you can provide your audience with some general information regarding the topic of your paper like stating some of the established beliefs or ongoing debates. You can use this section to establish a foundation for the views or arguments that are to present later in the project.

· Proof: This section will be used to substantiate your thesis. Here you will use evidences gathered from varied sources that supports your views.

· Conclusion: Here you can summarize your key points before giving a closing remark.

· Reference: In this section, cite your references in MLA or APA format.

Grading: The following rubric will be used to grade the project:

Criteria Excellent (90-100) Good (80-89) Fair (70-79) Poor (0-69)

Content and Argument -Meets all elements required by assignment. -All the information presented is correct. -Based on careful and strong research. -Ideas and information is coherent and cogently argued -Meets most to some of the elements required by assignment. -Most information is correct. -Based on respectable amount of research. -Ideas and information is mostly coherent and sufficiently argued -Meets some to a few of the elements required by assignment. -Some of the information presented is correct. -Based on limited research. -Ideas and information present but not consistently coherent or argued -Meets little to none of the elements required by assignment. -Most of the information presented is speculative and/or incorrect, and based on little to no research. -Ideas and information are scattered and poorly argued, if at all