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The second half of the semester will focus on researching and writing an argumentative essay. You will pick a subject, narrow it down to a specific topic, research it, and then turn what you find into an argumentative paper. (Note: the order you do that may be different. You may start with a subject (marijuana legalization, e.g.) and after doing research, use the information you find you narrow it down to a specific topic (recreational marijuana should be illegal; medicinal marijuana should be legal; recreational marijuana should be legal, etc.).
Why are we doing this assignment? For the argumentative paper, you will be required to conduct research and synthesize what you find into your essay. All of the research you use must be credible, whether it is academic and scholarly or not. (We will talk about this in class.) As such, the first step to writing any research-based paper is finding the research. The second step is to determine how you will be using that research in your essay. This assignment is designed to push you along in that process.
The first part of this assignment is an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography provides an overview of sources you expect to use in a research paper. After doing research and gathering your sources, you will take each source and give it proper APA style bibliography citation; then you will briefly summarize the source and evaluate the source by describing its rhetorical strategies, how you plan to use the source, how the source strengthens your argument or how you plan to show the source is incorrect. The summary portion of each entry will be approximately 100 words and the evaluation portion will be approximately 75 words. Be specific. Every source you use should help you make your argument.
The second part of this assignment is an outline of your paper. I am trying to avoid extremely specific requirements, but I want you to demonstrate to me via this outline that you have a good sense of how your essay will be structured. At the very minimum, your outline should tell me what your thesis statement is and have a topic sentence for each paragraph. Note: outlines are tentative. You won't be forced to follow it to the letter; I just want to see what you are thinking. From personal experience, I can tell you that the more effort you put into your outline, the less work you have to do on your actual essay.
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