Think about your reaction to Baker’s (from “The Art of Eating Spaghetti”) discovery that he could tell a story. Have you had a similar moment in your life when you found your calling?
In Part 2, you are beginning your Assignment 1 essay. You are writing to tell your story: select and post your topic for a personal experience paper about an experience that had a positive impact on your life. Your topic should be expressed in one sentence. Below your single sentence summary of your paper, share a few points that you will highlight in the essay assignment.
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Make your initial posts to Forums A and B by11:55pm ET, Wednesday .Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words .Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further.To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts aredue by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
For your responses, read your classmate’s one-sentence topic and ask a question that you would like to know. For example, if a classmate writes, “The experience that had the most positive impact on my life was joining the Marines,” then you might ask, “What was your family’s reaction when you went into the service?”
Your responsibility is to come back to the Forum and answer questions posed to you, as well.
wek 2
Read “Once More to the Lake” by E. B. White, pp. 97-100, and “Androgynous Man” by Noel Perrin, pp. 243-244. Select one of the pieces to write about.
Both of these stories involve trips or vacations , time spent away from the author’s everyday environment. Both deal with memory and growing up.
Take a look at how the author uses sentences to give details of the vacation or the trip. Are the sentences long, short, poetic, matter of fact?
Then write about whether you think the author is successful in creating an interesting or moving piece about memory. What makes the writing successful for you?
Select a favorite sentence from the piece and include it as a quotation with MLA citation, like this:
“I read all the interesting articles in a couple of magazines I had, and then I went back and read all the dull stuff” (Perrin 243).
Try to select a sentence that no one else has selected yet. Why is it a favorite for you? What was your reaction when you read it, and how did the author evoke that reaction?
Make your initial posts to Forums A and B by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday . Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words .Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further.To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts aredue by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
week 2 b
After you have read the APUS plagiarism policy, viewed the library welcome slide show, and taken the tutorial, think of a topic that you would like to write about for Essay 2, which is your first sourced essay in the class where you will need cited references.
Remember, Essay 1 is a personal narrative, and you do not need references for that essay; you are the reference! Pick a topic that you would like to know more about, such as how to go about doing something or something that interests you.
Use the example in the Lesson as a guide, and then try to answer these questions:
Why did you pick this topic?
What do I already know about it?
What is my goal in acquiring new information through my research?
What information will I want to share with my reader?
After you post your topic and answer these questions, read your classmates’ posts and respond to them with your questions about their topic. This will help them to find new research directions as they begin to look for information in the online databases next week.
Make your initial posts to Forums A and B by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday . Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words .
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
weeek 3
Thesis Statements
Post your thesis statement for Essay 2 here as a one- sentence thesis statement. Please bold it and identify it , so that we can all tell what it is.
Make sure you are writing one sentence only, and that you are not using a question. For example, “Should children wear uniforms in public schools?” is not a thesis sentence. To be a thesis sentence, the sentence must take a stand and be a declarative sentence.
After you post your thesis statement, discuss how you arrived at that one sentence. What process of thought led to that sentence? Did you conduct research on your topic before coming up with your thesis statement? Have you taken a stand in your thesis statement? Do you think that when you do more research on your topic, your stand might change? Did you start with one thesis and evolve into another?
(It is expected, in academic writing, that you may need to change your thesis statement as you work on your essay. You may believe one thing, only to find through research that your initial beliefs must be adjusted. Or, you may have to change your topic somewhat due to available research.)
After you have discussed your thesis statement, discuss how you will outline Essay 2. Provide at least three supporting ideas or directions, and show how they will support your thesis. Why did you select the three ideas you selected, and how do they develop your essay? How will you find research to support your three ideas? Remember, in the Essay 2 assignment, all of your research must be from one of these three online databases in the APUS online library—EBSCO, ProQuest, and LexisNexis. No open web sources are allowed for this assignment.
After you have made your initial post, Part 1 and Part 2, respond to at least two classmates with ideas for how their thesis statement might be refocused, improved, or clarified. Remember, be constructive, and feel free to ask questions about directions for more research, like, “Did you consider whether uniforms lead to better scholastic performance—will you back that up with statistics?”
Make your initial posts to the Forum by11:55pm ET, Wednesday .Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further.To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
week 4
In Week 2’s Forum 2B, you chose a topic for Essay #2, Writing to Inform. As you know, you will need to find and use cited references for this essay. In Week 3’s forum, you created a one-sentence thesis statement to use with this essay.
It is now time to work on your First Draft of the essay! When you write in a college class, the most effective way to create a formal essay isn’t to sit down on the computer and type until you get exhausted. Effective writers will create a draft, and then revise that First Draft more than once until they have a final copy to submit for grading.
Please note that your work on this forum should not be a “rough” draft: your First Draft should show signs of organization and your thinking.
For Week 4’s Forum, please complete the following in your post:
Write your topic, from Week 2.
Write your thesis statement that you used in Week 3.
Now, please post at least 250 words about your topic that you expect to use in your essay. This is your First Draft, and it should have some organization and some thought behind it.
Include one reference in proper MLA format that you have found from the APUS Library to support your topic.
When you reply to your classmates, is there anything missing? What more is needed? Do you have questions about the topic that your classmate can address for Week 5’s Peer Review?
Make your initial post by11:55pm ET, Wednesday .Initial posts should be at least 250 words .
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources. Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
Post your next draft of Essay #2, due at the end of this week. Then, respond in detail to the drafts of at least 2 other classmates, using the Writer’s Checklist for evaluating as your guide:
Which sentence states the main idea (thesis) of the essay? Please explain how it is or is not clear. Where is it placed, and is its placement appropriate?
What additional details could be included to help you better understand the essay? What is missing or unclear?
Are the details covered in a logical sequence? Which ones, if any, seem out of place?
What part of the essay is most memorable? Why?
How do the transitions, such as “furthermore,” “for example,” and “next,” used to help the ideas in the paper flow logically? If they do not, or are missing, which ones would be useful or need to be changed?
How does the author provide the reader with a sense of completion at the end? If completion is missing, what suggestions do you have?
What kind of grammatical errors, if any, are evident in the essay?
What final suggestions do you have for the author?
Please use the questions above and answer each question for the drafts that you evaluate. This way, the writer will have thorough and helpful feedback for revision of the draft.
Make your initial posts to the Forum by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday. Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words.
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.
Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further.
To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.
Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.
Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words, and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday.
week 6
Choose a topic for Essay 3, Writing to show Cause and Effect. For your topic, you do not need to decide on a thesis statement yet, but you do need to consider a topic where you can show cause and effect. Your topic can be chosen from your major academic field or from your work life.For more ideas, take a look at the assignment for Essay 3 (due Sunday of Week 8.)
Then, respond in substantive detail to the initial posts of at least 2 other classmates.
It would be very helpful if you could post research ideas for Essay 3. Example—Siobhan writes that she wants to explore causes of ADD in children, and Li responds that she might want to try looking in the online library databases for the PSYC articles databases, and Juan notes that when he did a paper for this last semester, he found a great article, and here is the Works Cited citation, so that Siobhan can find the article.
Note that as you respond to other posters, you may want to be doing a little research on the library databases, which go far beyond the two or three that we have been using for the course and include things like the PSYC articles database and the Jane’s Military publications databases.
Make your initial posts to the Forum by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday . Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words .
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
Earlier this term, in Week 4, you completed a First Draft for Essay #2, where you took your topic and expanded on it to create a larger piece of writing. In our Week 7 Forum, you will do this again for Essay #3.
In Week 6’s Forum, you chose a topic for Essay #3, Writing to Show Cause and Effect. As with Essay #2, you will need to find and use cited references for this essay.
It is again time to work on your First Draft of the essay! Remember that while the draft here doesn’t need to be perfect, it should not be a “rough” draft: there should be evidence of your thinking and organization here.
For Week 7’s Forum, please complete the following in your post:
Write your topic, from Week 6.
Now, please post at least 250 words about your topic that you expect to use in your essay. Once again, this is your First Draft, and it should have some organization and some thought behind it.
Include one reference in proper MLA format that you have found from the APUS Library to support your topic.
When you reply to your classmates, is there anything missing? What more is needed? Do you have questions about the topic that your classmate can address for Week 8’s Peer Review?
Make your initial posts to the Forum by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday . Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
week 8
Post your next draft of Essay #3 here and then respond to the posts of at least 2 other classmates with peer review. Here is what you will need to strive for in your peer review this week:
Do you see a clear relationship in the essay between cause and effect?
How persuasive is the author, and why?
Are there any places where you would consider revising words for clarity?
Consider issues of wordiness, jargon, biased language, mixed construction, and faulty parallelism. You do not need to proofread your classmates’ essays, but if you can find something in this category, it will be helpful feedback for the writer.
Authors, as you read your peer reviews this week, remember that the feedback may be correct or incorrect. Reviewers, keep your emphasis on constructive feedback only, and remember that you are only giving suggestions and not correcting another writer.
Make your initial posts to the Forum by11:55pm ET, Wednesday .Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
assignment
Assignment Instructions
Essay/Checklist 1: Writing to Share Experience
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 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:
How does my title and introduction make my essay enticing?
How is my thesis effective?
What details have I included so the reader can visualize my experience?
How are the events presented in a logical sequence?
How have I used transitions to help the sequence of events flow smoothly?
Have I used a consistent point of view and verb tense?
What is the point of my narrative?
How does the ending of my story make this a satisfactory ending?
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
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.
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?
Question
Assignment Instructions
Essay 3: Writing to Show Cause and Effect
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
You may have other ideas and are not sure how to use them in a cause and effect essay.
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.
What is the cause or effect you are analyzing in your thesis?
How have you explained the cause-and-effect relationship?
How did I organize my causes and/or effects so that they would follow a logical structure?
How did I conclude my essay so that it would end effectively?
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.
