Argumentative Essay
Your 4th project will ask you to construct a sustained argument or that addresses your issue.
Purpose:
Your purpose is to critically analyze and interpret your social issue and to help your readers to understand it and its implications. This assignment will also give you the experience of how writers must shift the same material as well as their tone, style and use of appeals in order to fit a new rhetorical situation.
Prompt:
We have been working up to this argumentative paper since week 4. Now, you will use the outline you have been building, along with your notes for the environmental scan, root, cause, history, arguments, and counterargument, to construct a 10-12-page argumentative essay . This is your chance to finally give your explicit argument about your social issue!
The goal is to put everything together that you’ve been working on this semester into one coherent, sustained argumentative essay. Therefore, you CAN REUSE MATERIAL FROM YOUR PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS & DISCUSSIONS (Environmental Scan and Root Cause/History).
Criteria:
- Clear thesis about your stance on your social issue
- AT LEAST EIGHT (8) relevant, scholarly sources to support your reasoning (can reuse sources from profile and fact sheet and/or find new sources)
- Comprehensive analysis and exploration of the chosen issue
- Written for a clearly defined audience
- Clear organization of cohesive paragraphs
- Correctness in grammar and mechanics
- Works cited page (does not count toward page count)
- MLA format