Order ID | 7285088374 |
Subject | Technology and Engineering |
Topic | Writer’s choice |
Type | Research paper |
Writer level | College |
Style | MLA |
Sources / references | 4 |
Language | English(U.S.) |
Description / paper instructions
Please perfectly follow the direction in the word file. If you need more information for this, let me know asap through the mail. Essay Requirements The better you adhere to the following guidelines, the higher grade you will earn for your assignments. There will be penalties for each of the items below that is missing or done incorrectly: NOTE: Recycled assignments written for previous classes are NOT acceptable and will constitute as plagiarism if submitted for grading. Naming your Files: Please save your essay as an MS Word doc beginning with your last name and followed by Essay 1, for example: Wingerter_Essay1 Thesis Statement: Your essay must have a thesis statement. Since the reader is familiar with the story, summary is unnecessary. Rather than tell your reader what happened, tell him or her what specific point you are making about the story. DO NOT make an announcement of your intentions in your thesis statement, as in “This paper will analyze the works of Robert Frost…” *See the attached Powerpoint “How to Write a Thesis Statement” for help with this. Organization: Your essay must be well-organized, with an intro paragraph that includes a thesis statement, body paragraphs, each organized around a main focus along with examples from the text that relate back to and “prove” the thesis statement, and a conclusion. *See the attached handout “How to Write an Essay” for help with this. Very Important!Format your essay according to MLA style guidelines. *Formatting your Essay:There is no cover page in MLA formatting, just the standard 4-line heading on page one, a title centered at the top, and double-spacing consistently throughout. See a sample here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/13/ There is a 3-point penalty for ignoring the following rule in essay assignments: DO NOT USE SUB-TITLES in your essays. These are reserved for longer pieces like Master’s theses and dissertations, well over 20 pages long. *Do Not Write in first person (I, we, me, us) and second person (you). Instead write your papers in the third person objective voice. This is standard practice for academic, college-level writing that lends more credibility to your writing.
*After first introducing an author refer to him or her by last name only in all subsequent uses of the name throughout your essay. *When writing about literature it is customary to speak in the present tense (for example, Robert Frost writes in his poem “The Road Not Taken…” *Always include a works cited listing for the literary selection you are writing about. *Take great care to avoid plagiarism by citing all information included in your essay that is not considered common knowledge to the general public. It is best to use a signal phrase that names your source up front and then include a direct quote that shows exactly which words and phrasing is borrowed (for example, “According to Jane Jones, “and then add a direct quote”, followed by a citation (Jones 23). Not citing borrowed information is considered plagiarism, which has serious consequences, including a zero for the assignment and a report to the Registrar that goes on your permanent student record. *Always include a works cited listing for the literary selection (poem, short story, essay or play) that you are writing about. How to cite and write a works cited listing: Follow MLA guidelines for citing sources. Click the link here to the Purdue OWL, which shows the format you need to follow for electronic sources:https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/ Scroll down to the caption that reads: In MLA the publication year of a source is NOT INCLUDED with the citation. Just the author’s name and a page number (if applicable) are required.
When you submit your essay for grading, it is automatically submitted to Turnitin.com, which generates a similarity report showing all of the borrowed information included in your essay. In addition to needing citations for all borrowed information included, students should also aim for an 80/20% split, with 80% of the words and ideas being their own and 20% coming from direct quotes from the literature or secondary sources writing about the story. Having a similarity report that goes much above 20% runs the risk of becoming a cut and paste job rather than a critical essay and will reflect in the grade earned. |