This term, you will write an essay over an assigned topic. This essay is designed to assess your research, writing, argumentative, and citation skills. For this assignment, you will use the skills you learned in this course about paraphrasing, citation, and documentation, as well as skills in writing and argumentation that you have learned in courses both in college and high school. The assignment will be due at the end of week seven. However, you will also be required to turn in prep assignments relating to the essay throughout the term. Those will include a list of your sources, a thesis, and an outline of your essay.
Here are the details of the assignment at the topic:
Topic: Have the laws and regulations passed as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 been helpful or hurtful to American society?
Guidelines:
Your essay should be written in APA format.
Your essay should be a minimum of 3-4 pages of content. This excludes the required cover page for APA style and Works Cited page.
Your essay should have an appropriate APA style cover page and Works Cited page.
Your essay should include at least four sources. Three of those should be articles from our GMC databases and one should be your textbook for the course. You may include others, but these are a minimum requirement and must be included to receive proper credit.
Your essay MUST INCLUDE IN-TEXT CITATIONS for information you pulled from your sources that is both quoted and paraphrased.
Your essay should contain no more than three direct quotes. The rest should be paraphrased and your own interpretations based on the sources.
Your essay should be free from grammar and typing errors.
Your essay should be run through www.paperrater.com to check it for plagiarism. Your essay will be graded with the grading rubric provided.
Prep Assignments That Will Be Due Prior to the Final Draft:
Thesis
List of Sources to be used in the paper
Outline of your paper
For this assignment, you will need to read the link entitled Course Essay Assignment Topic and Guidelines. After you familiarize yourself with the topic, you will need to take a position on this. Before taking a position, do a little reading and research. Formulate your opinion based on your findings and then frame your opinion in a thesis statement that you will use in your essay assignment.
Submit, in a word document, with your name, date, and course name at the top left-hand corner, your thesis statement.
The thesis should be centered on the page and in Times New Roman 12.
This is to be uploaded to the assignment link.
Thesis Part
For this assignment, you will need to read the link entitled Course Essay Assignment Topic and Guidelines. After you familiarize yourself with the topic, you will need to take a position on this. Before taking a position, do a little reading and research. Formulate your opinion based on your findings and then frame your opinion in a thesis statement that you will use in your essay assignment.
Submit, in a word document, with your name, date, and course name at the top left-hand corner, your thesis statement.
The thesis should be centered on the page and in Times New Roman 12.
This is to be uploaded to the assignment link.
Now that you have submitted your thesis statement for your course essay assignment, the next step is to submit a bibliography of all the sources you plan to use. Remember, you are to have at least three articles from the GMC databases as well as your textbook in the course. You may use more sources that that, but make sure that you have these at minimum and that if you use additional ones (in addition to the minimum I just listed) that they are scholarly and credible.
Your submission of these sources needs to be in a word document with your name, date, and the course in the top left-hand corner. The bibliography needs to be done according to APA style and alphabetized with the authors in alphabetical order. Sources with no author should come after those that do have authors.
