Make SURE you have reviewed the following carefully:
ACE Your Sources
Connecting In-Text Citations to Your Works Cited
The Essay 2 Prompt / Assignment
WHOLE ESSAY REQUIREMENTS:
Does your essay have the minimum number of required words? Length: 1000-1500 (minimum 1000)
Does your essay have the appropriate number of credible sources? Number of Sources: 4-7, academically credible
The claim of value takes a position on a topic. Your essay should take the stance you were assigned at the beginning of this unit.
SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE ESSAY:
o INTRODUCTION: The essay’s introduction includes context about the issue and concludes with a clear thesis statement / claim.
o REASONS: Each paragraph begins with one clear reason the claim is valid.
o EVIDENCE AND ANALYSIS: Evidence was strategically selected and arranged to strengthen its position with audiences. All evidence is explained.
o COUNTERARGUMENT: The essay addresses at least one possible counterargument that threatens to weaken its position and then refutes that argument.
o TRANSITIONS: Transitions are used effectively to connect ideas within and between paragraphs.
o GRAMMAR: Grammatical and punctuation errors do not impede or distract the reader from understanding the writer’s intentions.
o MLA: There are no errors in accordance with MLA style and the Works Cited is correctly formatted.
Length: 1000-1300
Number of Sources: 3-6, academically credible
Value: 10% of the class
Directions:
Different from essay 1, which asked you only to explore a topic but not take a stance on it, on essay 2 you will write an essay in which you are attempting, from the beginning, to convince a skeptical reader that your claim is convincing.
Using your topic and assigned stance on that topic, compose a strong essay arguing to convince an audience. In other words, make a claim of value and support it.
Audience:
Your audience consists of readers who may think that your topic does not matter much or who support multiple stances on your topic.
Lead up / Prewrite Assignments:
Annotated Bibliography 2: You must include 2sources. Put your sources in alphabetical order and use the citation, summary, commentary format for each entry.
Outline 2: Use the format provided later in the unit.
Guidance for Counterarguments and Rebuttals
Our textbook provides helpful information about how to identify counterarguments HERE. You can find information about rebuttals HERE.
Checklist:
The essay’s introduction includes context about the issue and concludes with a clear thesis statement.
The essay uses reasons and evidence strategically selected and arranged to strengthen its position with audiences.
The essay addresses at least one possible refutation / counterargument that threatens to weaken its position.
In addition, each supporting paragraph is developed sufficiently with appropriate evidence, reasoning, and detail.
Transitions are used effectively to connect ideas within and between paragraphs.
Grammatical and punctuation errors do not impede or distract the reader from understanding the writer’s intentions.
There are no errors in accordance with MLA style.
Intro
background
claim
Body Paragraphs
reason
evidence
analysis
Counterargument / Rebuttal
counter: one reason the other side feels the way they do
rebuttal: a response to fight what they’ve said
Conclusion
Why is it important to talk about this? So what?
Works Cited
Include all sources that were used
organized alphabetically
use the hanging indent
