apu engl101 all Week Essay/Checklist [ week 3 5 and 8 ]

Apr 10, 2024

Assignment Instructions

Essay/Checklist 1: Writing to Share Experience
Write a narrative in which you tell about an experience that affected you in a positive way. Write your narrative for a general audience that would include your classmates. Write in the first person (I, me, we, us), and tell the story from your viewpoint. All essays should be in MLA format and contain the checklist memo for Essay 1. Your essay should be between 500-750 words.

All essays will be automatically submitted to Turnitin.com when you submit your essay.

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Here is the checklist for your first essay. All questions should be answered in complete sentences and should be submitted to the text box. Do not submit your essay in the textbox. Attach only the essay to the assignment; do not include the Writer’s Checklist Questions with your essay submission! WARNING: you may NOT use this paper for any other class. Using this paper for any other class is a form of academic dishonesty.

Writer’s Checklist for Writing a Narrative Essay:

  1. How does my title and introduction make my essay enticing?
  2. How is my thesis effective?
  3. What details have I included so the reader can visualize my experience?
  4. How are the events presented in a logical sequence?
  5. How have I used transitions to help the sequence of events flow smoothly?
  6. Have I used a consistent point of view and verb tense?
  7. What is the point of my narrative?
  8. How does the ending of my story make this a satisfactory ending?
  9. What steps did I take to proofread thoroughly?

(Adapted from Write Now, pp. 110-111)

Attached are a sample template and the grading rubric for this essay.

DISCLAIMER: Remember, originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.

The Final Draft of Essay 1 is due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday of Week 2.







Assignment Instructions

Essay 2: Writing to Inform
Using any or all of the 3 article databases in the APUS Online Library (Proquest, EBSCO, and/or the LexisNexis) research the topic you have chosen in Week 2, and write an essay in which you inform the reader about the topic. Do not, however, write the essay in the first person. Instead, write in the third person—i.e., “Astronomy is an innately interesting field of study,” not “I am extremely interested in astronomy.”

We generally use third person exclusively in academic or scholarly writing, unless we are specifically directed to use first person. Last week, your narrative was written in first person, since it was about your own life. This week, you will need to be aware of what person you are in, and take out first and second person. Here is an example:

I love my country because it represents liberty and justice.This is first person. You do not want to write this in academic writing unless you are directed to write in first person.

You love your country because it represents liberty and justice. This is second person. You do not want to write this in academic writing unless you are allowed to use second person.

Americans love their country because it represents liberty and justice. This is third person. This is the preferred voice for academic writing.

Third person lends authority to your writing. Look at the difference between these two sentences:

I believe Hemingway brought a powerful masculine voice to American literature.
Hemingway brought a powerful masculine voice to American literature.


The second sentence sounds more authoritative, doesn’t it?

For Essay 2, you will need to integrate a minimum of 2 sources from any or all of the three article databases. Remember that an informative essay does not include the writer’s feelings or opinions, but simply informs the reader about the topic. Make sure you refer to your Essay 2 checklist before and after you have written your draft. All essays should be in MLA format and contain the essay checklist. Your essay should be between 500-750 words.

See Week 3 Assignment Materials for a sample essay that may be used as a template.

In your essay feedback it may be recommended that you use the tutoring services available through the library portal. Students who have utilized this resource have significantly improved their writing and raised their grades. You can find more about tutoring from the APUS Online Library homepage.

All essays will be automatically submitted to Turnitin.com when you submit your essay.

Here is the checklist for your first essay. All questions should be answered in complete sentences and should be submitted to the text box. Do not submit your essay in the text box.

Attach only the essay to the assignment; do not include the Writer’s Checklist Questions with your essay submission! WARNING: you may NOT use this paper for any other class. Using this paper for any other class is a form of academic dishonesty.

Essay 2: Writer’s Checklist for Informational Essay

1. How does my introduction clearly state my thesis and give the reader an indication of the direction my essay will take?

2. How have I made my topic sentences and body paragraphs clear and well developed?

3. What supporting details and examples have I used to fully support my thesis?

4. What sources did I use to complete this paper according to the assignment instructions?

5. Please provide an example of how sources have been cited correctly in the body of the essay in MLA format.

6. How does my conclusion effectively summarize my main points and restate my thesis in different words?

7. How did I carefully proofread and revise my paper for sentence variety, word choice, grammar, and punctuation?

8. How did I format the Works Cited page attached to ensure that it is in proper MLA format?

9. How long did it take to correctly format margins, line spacing, and other format issues required by the MLA sample essay, and shown in the sample provided by my instructor?











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Assignment Instructions

Essay 3: Writing to Show Cause and Effect
Write an academic essay where you show a clear relationship between cause and effect, with a topic chosen from your major field of study, your work life, or your personal life. Here are some examples of topics from your textbook and from successful student papers:

  • Causes of symptoms or conditions (medicine and health—autism, ADHD, cancer, sports injuries)
  • Causes of student success or failure, effects of teaching methods or tools (online learning, adult learners, returning students, homeschooling)
  • Causes of business growth and failure, marketing, business trends
  • Causes and effects of climate change, ecological change, scientific phenomena
    (adapted from Russell 196)


You may have other ideas and are not sure how to use them in a cause and effect essay.
Feel free to ask about getting ideas to help shape your topic into a Cause and Effect framework.

  • You will write your essay in the third person.
  • Use the APUS Online Library article databases, no open web sources.
  • You need a minimum of three sources for your essay.
  • Integrate the sources using MLA format.
  • All essays should be 750-1000 words, in MLA format.
  • Remember to include your checklist.

Essay 3: Cause & Effect – Writer’s Checklist

All questions should be answered in complete sentences and should be submitted to the text box. Do not submit your essay in the text box. Attach only the essay to the assignment; do not include the Writer’s Checklist Questions with your essay submission! WARNING: you may NOT use this paper for any other class. Using this paper for any other class is a form of academic dishonesty.

  1. What is the cause or effect you are analyzing in your thesis?
  2. How have you explained the cause-and-effect relationship?
  3. How did I organize my causes and/or effects so that they would follow a logical structure?
  4. How did I conclude my essay so that it would end effectively?
  5. Identify one change you have made as a result of proofreading your essay.

DISCLAIMER: As with Essays #1 and #2, your paper is automatically submitted to Turnitin when you submit it at the assignment location. Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.

Reminder: Your draft is due on Wednesday of the Week 8 Forum, and your final draft is due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday of Week 8.

Attached are a sample template and a grading rubric for Essay 3.










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