Argument Essay

#1

1- Go back to your prospectus and see what your plan for essays 3 and 4.    2- Go back and review the prompt for essay 3, pay attention to the type of sources listed.    3- On the discussion forum ESSAY 3: REFLECTIONS TO GET STARTED, you’ll talk about    

            A- if you think you’ll keep with your original plan or based on what happened on essay 2 or your own thinking you might change your plan slightly. 
           B- Review your original plan or state what your new plan is going to be 
           C- What sources do you already have that you’ll be able to use and what are you going to have to look for 
  
D- Then really quickly (I mean quick, under five minutes): 
  
           I - State what you think your thesis will be...a good way to do this is I’m going to prove…..(but in the essay you delete the “I’m going to prove” part)  
           II- 4-5 reasons that you might use to support your thesis   
           III- 2-3 reasons that someone might make against your argument    
           E- Finally, give us an update how you are weathering the changes to online learning and (if you want to get more personal, especially since we no longer get to chat in class) how is life going in general--how are you doing in the pandemic! Remember you are sharing with the whole class, not just me. 

#2

 ESSAYS#three, OVERALL REQUIREMENTS ? Each essay must make a well-supported argument with well-integrated sources and be based on the assigned prompts below. To get a passing grade: you must support an arguable thesis based on your own thoughts about your topic and the sources you have read and the research you have conducted; each must also be a 1,000-1,300 words, have 5-6 sources minimum (see the individual requirements for each essay) that are cited in the style required for each essay. See the syllabus about the other requirements as far as rough draft, final draft, and revision submissions. ? Sources must be well-integrated in the text of the essay with the use of direct quotation, summary, and paraphrase as well as in-text citations. A Works Cited must be included, and though it is the last page of your essay it does not count as part of the word requirement! ? You will upload your drafts on Moodle. ? You will be asked to identify the portions of the sources you used and submit hard copies of your sources in a folder or files of your sources online. ? Be sure to review the rubrics and checklist in The Composition and Rhetoric Guide as you draft and revis  
 
       ESSAY #three: ARGUMENT/1,000 WORDS/5 INTEGRATED SOURCES/MLA & APA/WORKS CITED & REFERENCES (tentative due date 4/6) For the third research essay, you will make a formal argument regarding a controversial issue within your topic having to do with the group or factor you have been studying this semester. This will be academic essay, but if you wish you could gear your argument to your particular group or college students in general. So for instance, if you are studying how parents affect college student happiness, you might choose to write to an audience of college students to convince them of something about their parents OR you might write to an audience of parents to try to convince them of something about their college students. If you don’t want to aim toward a specific audience, you’ll be writing to a general audience. Required minimum source guidelines:
  Three scholarly secondary sources
  Two primary .so work hard to get that draft done AND DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE A DETAILED EXPLANATION OF WHAT’S WORKING AND NOT WORKING AND WHY on your essay so I can stop deduction 5 points from all your essays from the get-go . Read/Review the argument sections in CaRG 140-43 (note the strategy on 143—a really handy way to set up this argument!!!) 


#3
 
REFLECTION LETTER AND DECISIONS DUE. See Syllabus for full details, but here’s the rundown. These do not have to be super long paragraphs; just showing that you are thinking about these things:
Paragraph 1: You will reflect on what’s working and not working on the essay and WHY this is and assign a letter grade to your essay that you believe would be fair based on the final product (not necessarily the effort you put into it)—you can use the self-analysis rubric to guide you. 
Paragraph 2: You’ll discuss the decisions you made during the writing of the essay, both on the page and in how you allotted time and effort. So you might discuss why you tried an informal but catchy introduction and your decision to have a two paragraph conclusion with sources cited in it, and then discuss that you really thought a lot about writing the essay for the whole week but when it came down to it you started to work on the final draft at 9PM before it was due and you ran out of time and energy. 
Paragraph 3: You’ll reflect on what you are learning about writing and yourself as a writer--this isn’t so much what you have learned in class, though that can be a part of it, but it is more what you are learning by doing and thinking!