🔸💎Essay🔸 🐰 E1 :: The American Dream Research Essay (100)
- Due Apr 24, 2018 by 11:59pm
- Points 100
- Submitting a file upload
- File Types docx and doc
The American Dream: Essay 1
Your goal for this essay is the elegant integration of source material to support your original ideas and assertions on the general topic of the American Dream. Your challenge will be to maintain an objective view while making this topic specific, and to support your ideas with source information that is recent within the past 6 months. For this essay only I have included sources that you are encouraged to use.
The Hoarding of the American Dream Links to an external site.
Is This The End Of The American Dream? Links to an external site. Links to an external site.
The Cost of the American Dream Links to an external site. Links to an external site.
The Transformation of the ‘American Dream’ Links to an external site.
Take notes while you read, look for examples, concepts, or quotes that stand out for you. After reading all of the articles look at your notes. Has a theme emerged? Good! That might be your essay topic!
If a theme does not emerge, go back to Step 1.
Step 3: Explore your theme, wrangle it into a thesis statement and post it the 🐰E1 Thesis Statement (20) discussion.
Step 4: Write your essay! Plan your time so that you can write a rough draft, take a day away from it, then revise it into an excellent essay: 2-4 pages in length, error free, MLA format, properly formatted Works Cited page.
Review this checklist prior to submitting.
Guidelines for essays:
Please underline your thesis statement or change it to red font.
▷Source information correctly cited as in-text citations in your essay
Rubric
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A: Thesis statement
✔️Thesis statement is strong, clear, specific, and provides focus for the essay. ✔️Thesis statement is not a list. ✔️Thesis statement is not an announcement. ✔️Thesis statement is indicated by red font or underline.
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B: Research
✔️Sources are recent within the past 6 months, college-level, appropriate and relevant. ✔️Information included from sources features events or situations that occurred within the previous 6 months. ✔️Source information is smoothly integrated into the essay with proper MLA in-text citation format including correct parenthetical citation information.
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C: Format
✔️Font is Arial size 12. ✔️Correct identifying information is included on the first page of the essay. ✔️Title is properly formatted in plain text: ✔️Not bold. ✔️Not underlined. ✔️Not a different sized font. ✔️Not italicized. ✔️Page numbers have been inserted correctly. ✔️Proper header is present on each page. ✔️Paper is evenly double-spaced throughout. ✔️First line of each paragraph is indented. ✔️Margins are 1" all around. ✔️Works Cited is cross-referenced with in-text citations so that every citation in the essay begins with a name or word that is the first word in the Works Cited list, and every entry in the Works Cited is referenced in essay. ✔️Works Cited is properly formatted.
✔️Essay is at least three full pages long (not counting quoted material) and no longer than five full pages (not counting Works Cited page).
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D: Organization, Voice, and Audience.
✔️Essay is organized into developed paragraphs that support the thesis. ✔️Topic of essay is covered thoroughly. ✔️Transitions are elegant. ✔️Essay features an appropriate ratio of original ideas, examples, quotes, paraphrases and summaries. ✔️Writer's voice is correct for the task at hand, 3rd person, authoritative. ✔️Writer maintains formal voice. ✔️Writer's awareness of audience limits over-explanation and reliance on common knowledge.
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E: Content
✔️Essay is on-topic and topic is covered thoroughly. ✔️Each aspect of the essay prompt is addressed. ✔️Examples are specific and vivid. ✔️Essay does not include history or background and focuses instead on events occurring within the previous 6 months. ✔️Clear evidence that the essay has been edited and proofread and is not a rough draft. I is consistently capitalized. ✔️Words and phrases to avoid are not present. ✔️Punctuation is properly executed.[☑️When required: Assigned course texts are skillfully integrated into the essay as support for analysis.]
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F: Evidence of familiarity with course modules and submission checklist
✔️Student "shows" argument points through examples and source information rather than just "telling" in an unsubstantiated narrative. ✔️There is a meaningful title. ✔️Information is written in declarative statements with no questions. ✔️Words and phrases to be avoided have been avoided. ✔️No use of you, your, our, us, I, we. ✔️Paper is free of common grammar and punctuation errors.
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This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome
SLO #2 WLAC EN-101
[Demonstrated ability to] cite sources both in-text and on a works cited page following MLA guidelines.
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3.0 pts
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Total Points:
100
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