Instruction
Unit 3 Argumentative Research Paper: Turn It In
Due: Sep 16, 2018 at 11:59 PM
Research Project Essay: Draft Submission (Non Graded Assignment)
Submit the draft version of your essay here. Please note that the purpose of using Turn It In is that it is a tool to be used to check your paper draft for potential plagiarism. This is a non-graded assignment. Turn It In will give you an originality report that highlights all areas that match other sources. You should then review these highlighted areas to see if it’s an area that you correctly cited as a direct quote, or it could be an area that should be cited with quotation marks and an internal citation in APA format. IF the latter, then you need to revise in order to avoid plagiarizing within your paper.
Use the following checklist to review your draft.
Does your essay:
Have an introduction that grabs the reader’s attention and contains an explicit thesis statement (claim + 3 supporting reason)?
Include research-based support for all reasons listed in the thesis statement in the same order as they appear in the thesis statement?
Include a section that discusses support for the opposing claim?
Include a section that rebuts the opposing claim?
Smoothly incorporate source material from at least 4 sources and 2 visual images?
Utilize a mix of direct quotes, summaries, and paraphrases?
Utilize smooth transitions between ideas?
Contain specific, concrete language?
Have a References entry (in APA format) that matches each in-text citation?
Show significant revisions to the draft version?