ENGL148N Advanced English Composition
Week 8 Assignment
Argument Research Essay Final Draft
Assignment
Using your draft from Week 6 along with the peer and instructor feedback provided, you will compose your Argument Research Essay Final Draft this week. Review the following resources, instructions, requirements, and rubric to help support your writing.
Required Resources
Please have the following resources available while you write your draft:
All previous Explore lessons
Your completed draft with feedback
Argument Research Essay Overview Links to an external site.
Sample Argument Research Essay Links to an external site.
Argument Essay Revision ChecklistLinks to an external site.
Instructions
This assignment is a final, polished draft of your Argument Research Essay. This draft will demonstrate the argument and writing techniques studied in the course and will build upon the steps you have taken in all the previous weeks toward developing your Argument Research Essay. This draft is expected to meet all of the Argument Research Essay requirements for writing, content, length, and sources.
Writing Requirements for the Argument Research Essay Final Draft due in Week 8:
Correct use of APA guidelines for the following:
Headers with pagination
Title Page
Margins, spacing, and paragraph indentation
APA in-text citation and referencing for all sources
Do?not?divide your essay into sections.
Do?not?use headings within your paper to indicate changes in topic. While longer APA essays and particular types of APA writing, such as scholarly articles, employ APA-style bolded headings to divide portions of the writing, you are writing a shorter academic essay. Your shift from one paragraph to the next should be signaled through your use of the effective transition and topic sentence rules we have practiced.
4–5 full pages for the essay itself, not including title page or references
Effective structure, including your introduction paragraph, your body paragraphs, and your conclusion paragraph
Use of third-person throughout. Focus on the topic, not on you nor on the essay. In other words: no first-person “I,” and no referring to the essay, such as “In this essay.”
At least 4 scholarly sources visibly used, cited, and referenced
Refer to the full Argument Research Essay Rubric
