Voices From The Crowd: HWFA

Readings_12:4

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, use OWL purdue to help you!

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

Assignment_2

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

Post here!

1. Think of two different writing situations you have found your- self in. What did you need to do the same in those two situations to place your writing appropriately? What did you need to do differently? 
2. Think of a writing assignment that you will need to complete this semester. Who’s your audience? What’s the occasion or context? What’s your message? What’s your purpose? What documents/genres are used? How does all that compare to the writing you are doing in this class?

Please Answer Both Questions in your response.