You may use scholarly or popular sources that adhere to the evaluative criteria for assessing credible sources. For this assignment, you may find that your sources from Paper 3 successfully help to develop your claims and account for counterclaims, so you will incorporate them into their paper. However, it is possible that your research question will evolve as your project develops and so the sources from Paper 3 may no longer be useful. Feel free to use old sources, new sources, relevant sources from class, or any combination of the three.
Completing the Assignment.
In the previous steps, you have developed analytical claims about your literacy narrative, formulated research questions, found appropriate sources, and revised your analysis to integrate secondary evidence. Now you are ready to complete the Analytical Research Paper. You will want to focus on complicating and evolving your thesis, organizing your essay in a clear and logical fashion, and polishing your writing by paying attention to tone, style, and the mechanics of grammar. As you complete the assignment, consider these questions:
Have I explored my literacy narrative thoroughly and developed complex and compelling analytical claims?
Have I explained the connection between my analytical claims and the primary and secondary evidence thoroughly and clearly?
Am I making compelling arguments that reflect serious inquiry throughout the research process?
Have I composed and arranged my paper in a way that progresses logically and makes my meaning clear?
Have I developed an analysis the reflects the course theme: representations of varieties of English?
Have I appropriately cited the sources that I reference, both in my text and in my Works Cited?
Have I observed the conventions of grammar and style expected in academic writing?
Evaluative Criteria.
Analyzes themes from your literacy narrative to reach a broader audience
Discuss to whom the messages are conveyed and speculate about the effectiveness of this message for a specific audience. Develop a complex thesis that makes a claim about how the coupling of your literacy narrative with credible sources communicates a message to a specific audience.
Demonstrate awareness about your role in the conversation about your research question and thesis by acknowledging what is at stake in your analysis. In other words, explain why your analysis matters.
Introduce complicating evidence and include what The Writers Companion terms an evolving thesis.
Integrate secondary sources in a way that accounts for aspects of the academic conversation that are relevant to the papers thesis. Properly uses terms, ideas, and analytical approaches that reflect the course theme
Include proper in-text citations of each source consulted or referred to and an appropriately formatted Works Cited page following MLA guidelines.
Include a title on the first page that reflects the complexity of the papers general purpose(s).
Observe the standards of academic writing discussed in class and avoid sentence-level errors and lapses in tone.
Produce fluid and precise prose with appropriate transitions throughout.
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INTRODUCTION
Develops relevant context/background information
Introduce thematic focus
States the thesis
BODY OF THE ESSAY
Focuses on your literacy narrative as the foundation for your claims
Avoids secondary sources overshadowing the analysis of the literacy narrative and primary claims
Analyses the themes present in your literacy narrative to discuss the so what? factors and what your analysis reveals
Uses credible sources to support your claims
Introduces main claims of sources/authors (summary)
Discusses the relationship between your claims and those of your sources (agree, disagree, or both)
Distinguishes your claims from the claims of your sources
Introduces quotes using the quote sandwich model
CONCLUSION
Emphasizes the takeaways based on your analysis
Rephrases your thesis
Discusses the significances of your analytical findings (i.e. so what?)
OTHER INFORMATION
Refers to sources using the present tense
Initially introduces author by first and last name, then refers to them by their last name
Uses first-person point of view when including your literacy narrative and/or reflecting on your literacy narrative
Avoids logical fallacies
Properly uses/defines terms covered in the course
Uses transitions to make connections within and across paragraphs
Organizes information in a way that reinforces thesis statement
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