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This is where you will bring it all together and show what you have learned this semester. You will demonstrate your skill in articulating complex ideas, examining claims and evidence found in your research materials, supporting your ideas with relevant reasons and examples, sustaining a coherent discussion, and using standard written English.

ENG. 102 – WRITING PROJECT IV: Researched Argument Essay

This is where you will bring it all together and show what you have learned this semester. You will demonstrate your skill in articulating complex ideas, examining claims and evidence found in your research materials, supporting your ideas with relevant reasons and examples, sustaining a coherent discussion, and using standard written English.

Assignment: Using the sources that you listed on your Annotated Bibliography, as well as any additional academic sources, write a research-based argument essay of eight to ten pages.

Topic: Same as that for your Annotated Bibliography. No topic changes allowed!

Project Learning Objectives:
  • Synthesizing research materials
  • Establishing a claim
  • Organizing a research-based argument
  • Developing your own argument using evidence consisting of expert opinion, facts and statistics, your own experience and observations (if appropriate to the topic), and your analysis and evaluation of the ideas found in your research
  • Integrating and documenting research sources
  • Integrating your own ideas with those of others
  • Using visual tools such as tables, charts, graphs, and illustrations

Purpose:  To convince your readers to agree with your claim on the issue or to believe in the soundness and reasonableness of your position

Audience: UNLV students who are uninformed and neutral about your argument/position

Sources: 8-12 required sources, at least three of which are to be academic-level secondary sources. Newspaper articles, magazine articles, non-academic websites, etc., may be cited in addition to, but may not replace, the three academic sources. You may also make use of interviews and surveys. Note that you may use sources that were not included on your Annotated Bibliography.

Required Length: 8-10 pages.  The Works Cited page is not included in the page count which means that you should have at least eight pages of text.

Grading Criteria:

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