My topic (enthymeme) : Pseudosciences can be extremely dangerous because leading people to abandon important medical methods with clear health benefits and will promote anti-vaccine activism.
Essay 1.2 is the final draft of Essay 1.1. As such, it should meet all the requirements of Essay 1.1 and demonstrate careful rethinking, rewriting, and revising of argument ideas based on feedback, as well as your own independent improvements of the document.
Points will be deducted for use of unapproved sources. Remember that approved outside sources are:
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- relevant, reputable primary sources (novels, films, tweets, etc.)
- reputable secondary news sources
- Remember, if you are using a reputable news source for this paper, you must use one that has been already posted to the Science in the News discussion (by you or classmate). The reputable news sources have been given a “thumbs up” by me!
- reputable tertiary sources (dictionaries, encyclopedias)
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Grading Criteria
1. Responds to a clear, relevant Question at Issue for our Discourse Community with a clear, logical Enthymeme.
2. Provides clear definitions for argument’s key term(s), quoting from OED (Links to an external site.) and analyzing the definition to build argument.
3. Essay demonstrates an understanding of how an argument takes shape through inquiry and in relation to audience, purpose, and context.
4. Essay presents and analyzes evidence necessary to build and prove the argument. Essay should use direct quote(s) from at least one course text as supportive evidence or as a counterargument. Evidence must be correctly cited in-text and on Works Cited or Bibliography page (depending on your citation style).
If using a citation style different from MLA, please note at the top of your paper which style it is. All our examples in this class are using MLA, so if you use a different style, it is your responsibility to seek out resources at owl.purdue.edu to help you cite.
5. Essay has a well developed counterargument paragraph (i.e. presents and analyzes the counter argument before refuting it; refutation responds directly to the counter argument; paragraph contains signal phrases where appropriate).
6. Above all, Essay demonstrates careful rethinking, rewriting, and revision from Essay 1.1 (clearly considers feedback while independently developing and clarifying argument further), is a demonstrably improved version of 1.1, and is at least 1400 words in length.
Reminder: If you submit an Essay x.2 that is equal to or more than 75% identical (measured by Vericite) to the x.1 version, that assignment automatically earns an F and will receive no feedback.
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