Requirements attached. Write a outline and finish the draft of this project.
Also the content of prewriting attached for help.
English 2367
Major Research Project
Arguing Your Position
Value: 30% of final grade
Length: At least 1,750 polished words
Format: MLA or APA format and appropriate format for the rhetorical situation you choose
Deadlines for Process Work and Drafts: See the syllabus course schedule
Now that you have analyzed a specific argument—and then explored the various arguments—about your topic, you are now ready to compose your own argumentative text in support of your position on an issue associated with your topic. Your purpose will be to persuade others of your position on the issue. Now that you have consulted sources and discovered answers to your research question, what is your position on a specific issue associated with your research topic?
Your audience for this assignment does include your classmates and instructor, but more importantly also a more targeted audience of your choice whom you would like to persuade. You’ll want to pay increased attention to your rhetorical situation in this assignment because while prewriting you will choose your specific
purpose, audience, stance, genre, and media/design; these choices will determine how you compose your research project and the effectiveness of the final product. For example, you may choose to persuade (purpose) teachers (audience) that learning disabilities do not have such a negative effect on literacy acquisition in children (stance) in a professional organization’s newsletter (media/design), which means you’ll use APA format. Or maybe you want to persuade in an entertaining way (purpose) children and their parents (audience) to read together every night (stance) in a video to children with a preface for parents (media/design), and you choose MLA format for the script. You will need to determine to whom should you argue your position—who can respond, act on your argument? How as a writer can you best persuade that audience?
Criteria for Evaluation
As with all major assignments in the course, you will be evaluated using the standard English 2367 Writing Assignments Grading Rubric. The following are
additional major essay requirements specific to this assignment and genre:
· Present a clear and arguable position—include the thesis (statement of the topic + point of significance—overall claim) toward the end of the introduction.
· Include necessary background information on the issue topic.
· Offer good reasons—use various writing and development strategies.
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Provide convincing evidence using accurate, well-researched information from credible and relevant sources; at least six, but no more than ten, sources are to be used—at least four of these need to be secondary sources found through CSCC library research, but others may be primary (primary sources such as interviews, memoirs, government or organization web sites are optional and not required). You may include any and all credible and relevant sources from your Critical Analysis. Encyclopedia entries and web sites found using search engines like Google (.com, .org, .edu, etc.), are acceptable secondary sources for this assignment.
· Use MLA or APA format, depending on your chosen rhetorical situation. Cite each source used both in the text with in-text citations and in a bibliography.
· Show patterns in and relationships among other arguments by synthesizing ideas.
· Appeal to readers’ values.
· Use a trustworthy tone.
· Include careful consideration of other positions—either throughout the project citing counterclaims or before concluding.
· Use appropriate media and design—if using video and/or audio, be sure to include a script that is at least 1,750 words long and follows MLA or APA format.
ENGL 2367
ENGL 2367
Writing Project 3 Prewriting Sheet
1. Explain the current social issue you picked and why. (Make sure it affects a particular community you are familiar with [students, parents, families of drug addicts, etc.], so that you can easily develop an audience to write to and a purpose for your research.)
2. Explain what community you could write to. You should be making choices based on them and on your purpose for them. think about who could act on what you’re saying and freewrite about their questions, concerns, areas of resistance, preferences, background knowledge, likes/dislikes, etc.
3. What “springboard” article/speech or policy or law or event did you pick to inspire your research? (You could choose to use the TED talk you discussed for Writing Project 1 or the speech you analyzed for Writing Project 2 as your springboard, or you could pick something else—make sure it’s approved by the instructor.) Provide the citation for what inspired your choice and explain here how and why.
4. Write your research question here. (It’s important that the question be specific, focused, thorough, current, and relevant to a particular issue that real people in a community you are familiar with are facing.)
5. Explain what you have done or will do in terms of primary research for this project (interviewing some members of the community you chose, or some people who have relevant information on your subject) and what you are hoping to be able to ask them.
6. There should be a persuasive element to this project, as you try to convey your purpose to readers. You’ll be convincing them of the relevance of this issue to their lives, convincing them to take the time to listen to the importance background about the issue, and convincing them to do something—whether it involves changing their minds or changing behaviors. Freewrite about what you think you want your purpose to be and why. Ground your purpose so that it has some kind of practical application, that it helps the community you chose in some specific way.
7. Freewrite about how you will use the rhetorical appeals (ethos/paths/logos) in your paper to engage your audience and further your purpose.
· Ethos: how will you establish your credibility as an author/speaker on this issue? What kind of tone/style should you adopt?
· Pathos: how will you engage readers’ emotions? What do you want them to feel and at what points in the paper? What could help them to feel that way?
· Logos: what points should you make and support to help your readers understand your purpose and agree with you? What kinds of evidence/source material would be helpful and persuasive for readers? What kinds of information would readers want/need to know? What might they already know?
8. Persuasion means trying to convince readers to do or think something, and successful arguments craft careful reasons/supports of your thesis with concrete examples as evidence. Persuasive writing also fairly, reasonably, and thoroughly considers and presents other sides of the argument (counterarguments) and responds to those ideas (rebuttals) to increase the writer’s credibility. What counterarguments or questions/concerns of your readers should you raise and respond to in your paper?
9. Which of the CSCC library databases have you tried so far?
10. Which has been most useful and why? What types of sources have you found?
11. Which (if any) have you had trouble with in terms of finding useful sources?
English 2367 Detailed Outline Assignment:
A Detailed Outline for the Persuasive Research Essay
For this assignment, you are asked to start thinking about The Persuasive Research Essay you must write. To complete this assignment, please see the blank outline template below and submit it filled out with your own information/planning for your own persuasive research essay. This outline has a specific format, which is listed below with details, examples and a blank template for you to use/fill out with your topic. Your detailed outline submission must include all 3 sections listed: Topic Overview, Body Paragraphs and Conclusion. The final draft of your outline must be 2-3 pages.
1. Topic Overview:
In this section, you should write up your introduction paragraph. This introduction paragraph should include:
· General information about the topic
· Background/context to help the reader understand both sides of the argument (list both sides of the argument as you see them)
· An overview of issues/points of view/ideas surrounding the topic
· Your thesis statement
A note on your thesis: Your thesis should make a statement that is supported by reasons: I believe this because of x, y and z reasons.
Example Thesis: Technology has positively influenced the business field because it has enhanced marketing, improved user interaction through advanced software programs, such as Microsoft Office, and it has helped make the work day more productive because of the invention of computers.
2. Body paragraphs/Sections: In this section, list at minimum 3 body paragraphs or sections. For each body paragraph, write up the topic sentence, and provide at least 1-2 things you’ll want to discuss in that paragraph. Then under each of the two things you’ll want to discuss, pick a source from your Annotated Bibliography Assignment that you’ll use in that paragraph to support that idea/thing you want to discuss.
Example
Body Paragraph:
Topic Sentence:
The positive impacts of technology on business have really brought about
marketing development for business of all sizes. With the impact of social media advertisement,
small and large businesses alike have been able to grow their customer base and improve
profits. Twitter and Facebook are the best examples of how technology has really impacted
advertising for the better.
Will talk about detail/supporting idea:
Twitter, how everyone now lists “follow us on Twitter” and how they include it in their advertising materials and post updates, sales and specials from their business.
Source I will use in this paragraph:
Cunningham, T. (2014, Dec. 07). 10 trends that will impact small businesses in 2015. Retrieved from:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/bizmonday/article4324659.html
Will talk about detail/supporting idea: Facebook, how Facebook pages have now become the new website. They’re cheaper to maintain, but easier to use. Now lots of businesses have Facebook pages to keep their customers up to date on the happenings of their business.
Source I will use in this paragraph:
Bruno, K. (2010, Sept. 28). Advertising week 2010: The advertising impact of
facebook. Retrieved from:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2010/09/28/advertising-week-2010-theadvertising-impact-of-facebook/
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3. Conclusion: In this section, you should write up your conclusion paragraph, which should include some sort of summary of your main points and the message or idea you want to leave with your readers.
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English 2367 Detailed Outline Assignment:
Blank Outline Template
1. Topic Overview:
2. Body Paragraphs/Sections:
a. Body Paragraph/Section 1
i. Idea 1:
ii. Idea 2:
iii. Source(s) to use in this section:
b. Body Paragraph/Section 2
i. Idea 1:
ii. Idea 2:
iii. Source(s) to use in this section:
c. Body Paragraph/Section 3
i. Idea 1:
ii. Idea 2:
iii. Source(s) to use in this section:
3. Conclusion: