RESEARCH ESSAY WRITING — Research Thesis Statement: (50 points)Due: 7/23Submit a thesis statement for your Research Paper. You may find...

Dear Students:

I want to address some problems that some students have with the proposal:

Please don't use the 2nd person, “you”, as this is not appropriate for a research paper. use 1st person, “I” or “we”, or 3rd,”he-she-it-they”. It is preferable that you use 3rd. Ist is OK if you are writing a persuasive piece but be careful not to get caught up in talking about yourself.

Make sure you use correct MLA format for 2009 for the works cited page. Your heading need not be in a header but your last name and pagination must be.

Make sure your sources are reliable. For example Wikipedia can be changed by anyone so it is not reliable, and some websites have an agenda to give you a message or sell you something. Also make sure your sources are up-to-date.

Make sure you have both Web and Print sources.

Your thesis should address what you are going to be talking about in your paper specifically and should be in your introduction. There is a power point on thesis under the course information tab.

I am looking forward to gaining great insight into subjects I had no idea about! It will make for interesting reading.

Ginger Hughes