In our final unit, we will use the research from our Unit III annotated bibliography assignment to write our final essays.
Take heart class! You have done the research and have become authorities on your topics (at least more than you might have been 15 weeks ago). Indeed, your research and your works cited page are finished (you are allowed to add sources and annotations if you decide that you need more research than you had in Unit III, but otherwise, your research and works cited are already finished!).
For this final essay you will conceive of an audience and a goal as described in-depth here Slide Show Lecture: Unit IV and here in the Unit IV: Discussion I: Audience Description. Follow these links and read through the discussion description which will help you generate an audience and goal for this final essay.
Once you have a firm grasp of what you will argue and to and for whom you will write, the final step will simply involve writing the essay. You will be posting a half-length rough draft (minimum 500-750 words) as an attachment here in the Unit IV: Discussion II: Rough Draft. There you will receive some feedback from me to help you further refine your concepts of audience and goal as you move towards the final draft.
ESSAY REQUIREMENTS:
Write a 1000-1500 word essay
Use your Unit III Annotated Bibliography for your sources. Therefore, the same source guidelines apply: Use a minimum of 5 sources. One source must be a peer reviewed journal article or a book. One source may come from 88 Open Essays, but you must have at least 4 outside sources. You may not use Wikipedia, About.com, blog posts, Facebook posts, etc.
Quote in your essay using MLA in text citation at least 6 times (see this handout–The Quotation Sandwich–as well as chapters 18.4 and 19.1 in Composing-Ourselves-and-Our-World for help here).
Continue to show improvement in any pattern of grammatical error that you may have had in earlier essays.
Double-space your essay
Avoid using contractions in your writing
Use 12 point, Times New Roman Font or Arial Font (but not Calibri)
Write for your narrow audience as best you can
Use MLA Essay format (see the MLA Format Help Module)
Upload your essay to the Unit IV Dropbox by the deadline on the class schedule
