Core Requirements for Final Research Essay:
In order to be eligible for full credit (30 labor units) your first version must:
1) Be 13 to 15 full pages, word count at least 3900 long and accurately follow all of the MLA Format and Documentation guidelines modeled and explained in the course handouts.
2) Include an effective introduction offering both clarifying context and an overview of the controversy, as well as stating your guiding question-at-issue (in bold font for clarity) that gets to the heart of the debate surrounding your proposed, and approved, social problem facing our world today.
my question at issue is: Parents need to help their children reducing obesity because children obesity problem has an adverse effect on children’s self-esteem and negatively impact children’s health.
3) 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 especially from your Annotated Bibliography, 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.
4) 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.
5) Include a reasoned thesis (enthymeme in bold font) in the conclusion as the paper’s central argument answering your opening question-at-issue regarding your proposed, and approved, social problem facing our world today.
My enthymeme: Parents need to help their children reducing obesity because children obesity problem has an adverse effect on children’s self-esteem and negatively impact children’s health.
6) Reflect significant improvement in response to your four revision goals (two selected by you and two assigned by instructor), as well as editing for clarity and precision. Important: In the body of your essay, put any sentences or paragraphs that include changes and additions intended to address these revision goals in bold.
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 20 points earned for meeting the first five core requirements explained above, and the remaining 10 points earned through improvements in response to your four personalized revisions goals. Caution: It is not possible to earn any credit for this assignment if either in-text parenthetical citation or a Work Cited list is missing. And due to time constraints, this assignment is not eligible for revision, making your first score on this assignment final.
Submission Details: In addition to submitting your Final Research Essay here for the required anti-plagiarism scan, be sure to turn in a pdf with all changes and additions focused on your four goals indicated in bold as part of your Final Portfolio.
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