Essay Instructions: Below are the instructions for this essay. Please include a reference page with at least 3 references and use in-text citations. Also, use quotations throughout the Essay. This type of paper needs to be a Research Position Essay. I will be including several articles for which to choose from. Please choose which you think are the most relevant. The topic of this paper should surround the area of the bailouts that the government has issued to many family corporations including credit card companies to clean up bad debt. What has these bailouts done to help the economy and are the consumers effected by it? Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Composition II??"Essay #1??"Researched Position Essay
Length: 4-6 pages, not including title and reference pages (1000-1500 words)
This assignment invites students to compose a persuasive essay examining a narrowly defined, academic, beneficial, and credible topic within the ten subject areas listed below. The essay should build on one’s efforts at analysis and writing during the course, concepts learned in Chapter One of Writing, and by using the Library’s resources like the “Topic” handouts and explanations. In line with the material discussed in class, the argumentative research paper invites you to establish your main persuasive claim (thesis), analyze the salient features of an issue, and develop your position on an issue using relevant and sufficient supporting evidence. The successful essay will begin to develop a “two-sided” persuasive approach discussing and supporting a defensible claim (thesis) about a controversial, but not over-wrought, subject??"something about which there is substantive and rational disagreement.
Useful in developing such an essay would be to examine initially one’s own experiences, beliefs, attitudes and values; similarly, one might, through significant reading, uncover a contradiction or argue against popular opinion. Effectively persuasive essays invariably consider counterclaims and opposing arguments, and if presented sensitively, help establish the author’s ethos. This essay challenges you to persuade the uncommitted by confidently presenting and critiquing opposing claims and evidence while convincingly presenting one’s own thoughts. Perhaps the most important element for this essay is that the topic intrigues and concerns the writer??"that it’s something the writer cares about.
? Specific Requirements: Including the standards found on the “Rubric for Writing Assessment” included below, and elements of effective persuasive essays discussed this quarter, and the textbook suggestions elaborated during the course, the research paper should be four to six pages in length, not including a Title and References pages. Additionally, the essay should incorporate quotations, summaries, and paraphrases using introductory phrasing and document sources in the text according to APA The Easy Way! At least five different sources must be used with not more than one deriving from the Internet. Information gained from reference sources, such as an encyclopedia, (e.g. Wikepedia.org) or a dictionary will not count as a legitimate source.
? Introductions: Catch the reader’s interest in the introduction by providing a short anecdote relevant to the paper; a revealing problem your research unveiled; a difficult question; a telling quotation; a misconception or stereotype that needs correction.
? Conclusions: Make the essay’s conclusions helpful and memorable for the reader. Remember to save something engaging or provocative for the end.
? Content: The essay will help you learn to construct an arguable claim, identify reasons and evidence, which are both relevant and sufficient, and to consider and respond to other writers’ positions. You will also begin to consider the rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos as the means of making arguments.
? Audience: Try to ignore any negative preconceptions about writing a research paper. If the topic has been chosen with care and interest, this will focus one’s efforts and the ethos will be persuasively communicated to the reader. Consider the audience to be classmates or family but not necessarily your instructor. Although the essay will be academic in nature, try to use a semi-formal tone. Please try not to be dry or boring as one might imagine an “academic voice.” Work to make the paper interesting for the writer and for readers. In other words, envision that the essay teaches the reader something while also attempting to guide the reader toward accepting a particular viewpoint toward the topic.
? Rhetorical Strategies: Try to apply persuasive writing strategies learned this quarter. In addition to using convincing reasons and articulating a definite position, does the essay stir a reader’s emotions? Is the train of thought rigorous? Can you appeal to your reader's morals or ethics? Does the essay show readers that the writer??"oneself as a researcher??"is careful, responsible, and fair-minded with the presentation of information? Does the essay accurately represent competing ideas and claims fairly and accurately? Does the essay conform to conventions of written English in terms of grammar, mechanics, usage, and formatting?
? Sources: The more authoritative sources used, the more convincing the research is; the fewer and less credible the sources used, the less persuasive the writing is. Choose sources from a variety of publications like journals, magazine articles, books, databases, newspapers, government documents, and the Internet. Moreover, sources should be relatively recent, within the last five years unless you need to present a history of the topic as part of your argument. Question and challenge a source’s credibility by examining credentials, assumptions, affiliations, and implications, which could be used in the paper’s discussion.
? Quotations: Use phrases to introduce or contextualize writers or authorities. Discuss quotations that are not perfectly obvious in their meaning to integrate them smoothly into the writing and to avoid stringing them together.
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