Voices From the Crowd: JWFB

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What your introduction should DO in your paper

Rubric For Final Paper

Writing 2100: Professor Largent

• Clear thesis/ARGUMENT: It’s clear that you have researched your topic and thought about it from a number of perspectives. You draw a conclusion from your research and experience and develop a clear, arguable thesis. (30% of grade)
• QUALITY and INTEGRATION OF SOURCES: You summarize, paraphrase, and quote directly in syntactically sophisticated and ethical ways from the sources you’ve used for your research (at least 4 sources other than the sources we have used in class). These sources should represent a variety of perspectives and should be credible for this rhetorical context (an academic essay) (20%)
• SUPPORT FOR YOUR THESIS/ARGUMENT: You provide rhetorically persuasive reasons and evidence to support your thesis. This support should come from sources that will be credible to an academic audience and can include evidence from your own experience. (20%)
• ORGANIZATION: You organize your paragraphs in such a way that your readers can clearly follow your main argument; your readers can easily follow how you develop and support that argument in each paragraph; you group information together that goes together; you use a new paragraph when you “switch gears” to a new subject; and you use transition words and phrases to signal to your reader where you’re going. (20%)
• STYLE/EDITING/PROOFREADING: Your writing contains few if any “to be” verbs, your writing style is concise and compelling, and you carefully edit and proofread your final draft so that your writing signifies “Standard Written English” to your audience. (10%)

Post your 250 word Research Proposals/ Abstracts here:

Due 11/25 In class and on Blog

As always, refer to OWL purdue for help!

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/752/1/

Final Research Paper

Find one article from a research database, that relates to one of the themes or topics we have been discussing in class. (This is really broad so you have a lot of freedom here! Find something you are interested in researching/reading)

Please post a link to your article here once you’ve found it. You can also post the article itself. Accompanying your article, should be a three sentence description so your classmates can click on it if they find it useful or interesting.

Be prepared to summarize your article for the class on Friday and BRING YOUR ARTICLE! ( Summarize in detail. What is the purpose/main idea? What IS the argument? What are the points made to make the argument? etc..)

USE RELIABLE SOURCES!

Please post these as comments to this post

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Please post your close readings here (400 words). I am really looking forward to reading these!

The two most influential and arguably most important papers I have written in my career as a student so far would the eleventh grade interdisciplinary research paper and my personal college essay. Both are incredibly different at their essence; however they do share meager similarities. The predominant similarity in both of these exalted works was that I needed to provide endless examples and evidence of claims that I made in order prove a point to my reader/audience. I recall being told that both of these works were interesting and engaging, however they were pervaded with many arbitrary claims and not enough support. This was a recurring theme in both pieces, however they were augmented to the point they were solidified claims.                                                                                       Since these papers; from the core, are so different from each other, it would be easier to explain the disparity between them. Since one is an “interdisciplinary paper” which is based upon factual occurrences and historical events while the other is more of a personal anecdote with emotions and feelings, the primary contrast between the two would be the tone in which they are written. The research paper was about World War 1, so it was very informative yet apathetic. It had no excitement or reaction; it was just a factual paper used to educate readers. The college essay however, was an otherworldly experience, feelings and thoughts that a person cannot really explain but only experience firsthand.

An event I’m actually looking forward to writing about would be a concert I must attend for my music class. I’ve only been to one previously and I really enjoyed it. My audience would be my music professor, Mr. Menillo. The context would be a musical analysis on what I hear during the concert. My message and/or purpose would be how the composition of many different instruments from completely different families all contribute and make one harmonious and melodic noise. The document that will be used will be whatever I hear that night. Personally, I don’t see a major difference between the writing that will be done after the concert in comparison to the writing we do in this class. Primarily in this English class we do a lot of analyzing and critical thinking about essays and pieces of literature. The same will be done in music (various instruments.) However some can say the real difference between the two is that the concert is aural while the writing in this class is not.

Throughout my academic career I have been assigned to do various types of writing assignments. These assignments have ranged from factual, researched based writing to creative fictional stories. In my senior year of highschool I was in an environmental research class. For this class, the major assignment was to write a 20 page research paper on a topic related to the environment. The assignment was very daunting, for I had never written a paper even close to 20 pages, so in order to do the assignment efficiently and correctly, I had to organize my thoughts and ideas. First I had to find a topic which had enough research and content so I would be able to expand on it in order to meet the parameters of the assignment. I also had to do extensive research to back up my paper with evidence and statistics because this was a scientific paper. Another challenge was incorporating the research into the paper in a manner that made sense. I wrote the paper by organizing the information into cause and effect and then placing the data afterwards to strengthen my points. Also because of the sheer length of the assignment, I had to elaborate and go deeper on my main ideas. As for my creative writing paper, I had to take a completely different approach. I found that choosing a topic to write about to be more difficult because there was no outside sources to incorporate into the paper. Rather than facts and research, the content had to come from my own imagination. The organization of the paper was very different as well. The assignment was to write a fictional story, so the content would be organized chronologically. Due to the radically different natures of both assignments, I had to make different preparations and take different approaches in order to meet the goal.

As for this semester, I will be needing to write an analysis paper which compares and contrasts to texts to one another. My purpose is to analyze and point out the similarities and differences of the ideas in each text. I will be using the psychology documents that we have been studying in class. This assignment is very relevant to our writing in class because the purpose of both writings is to analyze and understand the text at a deeper and more concise level.