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Moir / ENGL 101

Winter 2016

Final Independent Research Essay on Beauty

5-7 pages excluding Works Cited list

Rough draft review session with Caroline: by appointment during finals week (review session are OPTIONAL; you can also visit the Writing Center or BE Learning)

Final draft via Canvas e-mail: Saturday, March 26th by 11:59 PM (there will be an Assignment open on Canvas where you will upload your final essay)

Sources:

Six minimum; of which, at least one must be a primary source, and at least two must be academic journal articles. You must also include at least one creative or non-traditional source, and one full-length book source (be sure to review the sources you already have for your Beauty Outline, as you may have some or several of these already).

Assignment:

The final essay for this class will be built off of the Beauty Outline; in other words, the final essay will be an expansion of the Outline, with new points, increased analysis, and additional sources and evidence.

The FIRE is where you should put together everything you have learned in English 101 about critical thinking, organization, documentation, and research, using the Beauty Outline you have already completed as a plan or starting point. In this essay, you should present your ideas and your research in the spirit of academic symbiosis. In order to avoid any chance of plagiarizing you will, of course, use MLA in-text citations, and an MLA-style Works Cited list—you are ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED TO USE EASYBIB.COM. Everyone who tried to do the Works Cited list using other methods made several errors.

Be sure to think of your audience with this final essay: what do you want to teach them; what ideas are you trying to persuade them to believe or accept? What have you learned? What is your scholarly perception of BEAUTY and especially, your particular topic, now that you have completed all these weeks of researching, reading, writing, and thinking?

Part 4: Writing Skills Goals:

Avoiding plagiarism; autonomous, critical thinking; using parenthetical source citations; citing different types of sources; preparing works cited/consulted lists; finding sources; internet sources; evaluating sources; MLA; synthesizing research findings; and posing a worthy research question (or, constructing an effective argument, if you so choose).

Review:

* Essay 1/Memoir (to review voice)

* Essay 2/Sleep and Dreams (to review argumentative skills and citations)

Instructional handouts from class

Sample final ENGL 101 essays (Caroline will post these on Canvas)

OWL @ Purdue website (various sections of site; use as needed, and use search function)

Documentation:

* Use MLA-style in-text (parenthetical) citations

Include an MLA-style Works Cited list at the end of your paper (does not apply toward page count, but does need to be on its own page.