Research Paper

5-6 pages

Purpose:

This assignment allows students to focus on the different rhetorical techniques that combine and create successful argumentation.  Students have the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to construct a cogent thesis and well argued essay using research and incorporating outside sources as evidence and support for their thesis.

Outcomes:

• Demonstrate the critical thinking skills involved in exploring, limiting, and focusing the subject in order to produce a thesis statement appropriate for the audience and assignment
• Comprehend, interpret, and incorporate into his or her writing ideas from a variety of sources and points of view
• Produce essays that are well organized, coherent, unified, and sufficiently developed
• Produce essays with appropriate style and correct grammar, punctuation, usage, and diction
• Produce essays with sources correctly documented and cited

Assignment

1. You will write a 3-5 research paper (typed, black ink, double-spaced, 1” margins) using 3-4 scholarly sources.  You will use those scholarly sources to support your argument.
2. You will write about the topic you’ve chosen, using your thesis statement and sources from your annotated bibliography. 
3. You will begin your paper (as you would a 5-paragraph essay) with an introduction (a weighty paragraph) that includes your thesis statement
4. The rest of your paper will include supporting evidence that develops and supports your thesis.
5. The conclusion (the final weighty paragraph) is, at its name suggests, the end of your paper.  In this paragraph, you will restate your claim, not verbatim, but a creative and reflective manner.  Your conclusion should leave the reader with some final thoughts, resolutions, suggestions, etc. about your topic and thesis.
6. You will include a Works Cited page with 3-4, properly cited and formatted, source.

Research Paper

5-6 pages

Purpose:

This assignment allows students to focus on the different rhetorical techniques that combine and create successful argumentation.  Students have the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to construct a cogent thesis and well argued essay using research and incorporating outside sources as evidence and support for their thesis.

Outcomes:

• Demonstrate the critical thinking skills involved in exploring, limiting, and focusing the subject in order to produce a thesis statement appropriate for the audience and assignment
• Comprehend, interpret, and incorporate into his or her writing ideas from a variety of sources and points of view
• Produce essays that are well organized, coherent, unified, and sufficiently developed
• Produce essays with appropriate style and correct grammar, punctuation, usage, and diction
• Produce essays with sources correctly documented and cited

Assignment

1. You will write a 3-5 research paper (typed, black ink, double-spaced, 1” margins) using 3-4 scholarly sources.  You will use those scholarly sources to support your argument.
2. You will write about the topic you’ve chosen, using your thesis statement and sources from your annotated bibliography. 
3. You will begin your paper (as you would a 5-paragraph essay) with an introduction (a weighty paragraph) that includes your thesis statement
4. The rest of your paper will include supporting evidence that develops and supports your thesis.
5. The conclusion (the final weighty paragraph) is, at its name suggests, the end of your paper.  In this paragraph, you will restate your claim, not verbatim, but a creative and reflective manner.  Your conclusion should leave the reader with some final thoughts, resolutions, suggestions, etc. about your topic and thesis.
6. You will include a Works Cited page with 3-4, properly cited and formatted, source.