Writing instruction:
Instructions for earning a “complete” score on Revised Final Research Essay
Core Requirements:
In addition to adding a conclusion, which was not required for the first version, your revisions must:
–Reflect significant improvement in response to both any core requirement concerns noted by instructor in first version feedback and your four revision goals (two selected by you and two assigned by instructor), as well as editing for clarity and precision. Attention: Put any changes and additions intended to address these revision goals in bold!
-Be at least eight full pages (with a recommended maximum of fifteen for those doing the extra labor option for a Thorough Research Essay) and follow the MLA Format and Documentation guidelines modeled and explained in the course handout, especially including a Work Cited list and using in-text parenthetical citation.
-Include a reasoned thesis in the conclusion as the paper’s central argument (please put in bold font for clarity) in response to a relevant question-at-issue (offered in your introduction, also in bold) regarding your proposed, and approved, social problem facing our world today.
-Effectively address, integrate and analyze central ideas and evidence in the form of direct quotes from a thorough selection of relevant academic sources from your original research, including a good balance of specific evidence/data/ideas from primary sources and reasoning/claims/interpretations from secondary sources, to support, develop, and explore the essay’s thesis.
Note: Your integration and analysis of research sources should disclose the authors/organizations’ relevant expertise or potential bias when meaningful, so that readers readily understand the relevant ethos of each research source.
-Thoroughly and ethically explain and analyze the most relevant and pressing counterarguments, challenges and complications in order to both demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of diverse perspectives within the debate and use engagement with these opposing perspectives to expand, qualify, and refine your reasoning via persuasive, ethical and substantiated rebuttals.
Grading: Based on the full core requirements listed above, turning in a complete hardcopy of this first version on time will be worth 30 labor units, with six points earned for each of the four revision goals and the last six earned by editing and meeting formatting expectations.
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