Question Description
I’m working on a english project and need a sample draft to help me learn.
Assignment
Write an essay that takes position on the issue you researched in Project III. You will use your research as well as your own experience as a college writer and researcher in your discussion of this position. Remember, a “position” doesn’t need to offer a solution or take a definitive stance; it may, for example, argue for the two main challenges to students when significantly revising their essays. An argument you can fully support in just four to five pages will be small and nuanced. For example, you wouldn’t argue that students shouldn’t be graded on writing, but that grading student writing can, paradoxically, decrease student investment in this writing.
Requirements:
The successful essay will likely be 4-5 pages in Times New Roman 12 inch Font. It will include outside some of which we may have read in class and the majority of which will be scholarly. The number of outside sources included depends on your project. You may also use your own experience as a college writer and researcher. It will need to correctly cite and/or paraphrase passages from the sources in correct MLA form, and it will not misrepresent the ideas of the sources. You will submit the essay in a folder with and two copies of a final draft, an early draft with my comments, and copies of all your sources. Unethical source use in the Essay IV, which includes inadequate paraphrase, missing citations, and/or citing the wrong source will necessitate your retaking the course.
Grading Criteria
Content
• Do you have a thesis, even if it is implicit or delayed, that argues something relevant about an issue you researched in Essay III.
• Does your thesis and argument confront this issue in all its complexity rather than over-simplifying the issue?
• Are the reasons and evidence in support of this theme/thesis credible, relevant, and fully developed?
• Does your essay enter into the “conversation” about this issue that you discovered when researching?
• Have you included sources as necessary?
• In citing these sources, have you represented the author’s point of view without distorting it?
• Have you inserted correct parenthetical citations for your sources? Failure to do so may result in a failing grade.
• Do your paraphrases put the ideas of the text into your own words? Failure to do so may result in a failing grade.
• Are your quotes accurate – do they quote the text word for word?
• Have you smoothly integrated these outside voices into you writing?
• Does your paper adequately address opposing viewpoints, while subordinating/critiquing them?
• Does your paper conclude somewhere near the top of page 5 (or on a subsequent page)?
• Are there substantial differences between the first and second draft?