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English 2367

Major Research Project

Arguing Your Position

Value: 30% of final grade

Length: At least 1,750 polished words

Format: MLA or APA format and appropriate format for the rhetorical situation you choose

Deadlines for Process Work and Drafts: See the syllabus course schedule

Now that you have analyzed a specific argument—and then explored the various arguments—about your topic, you are now ready to compose your own argumentative text in support of your position on an issue associated with your topic. Your purpose will be to persuade others of your position on the issue. Now that you have consulted sources and discovered answers to your research question, what is your position on a specific issue associated with your research topic?

Your audience for this assignment does include your classmates and instructor, but more importantly also a more targeted audience of your choice whom you would like to persuade. You’ll want to pay increased attention to your rhetorical situation in this assignment because while prewriting you will choose your specific
purpose, audience, stance, genre, and media/design; these choices will determine how you compose your research project and the effectiveness of the final product. For example, you may choose to persuade (purpose) teachers (audience) that learning disabilities do not have such a negative effect on literacy acquisition in children (stance) in a professional organization’s newsletter (media/design), which means you’ll use APA format. Or maybe you want to persuade in an entertaining way (purpose) children and their parents (audience) to read together every night (stance) in a video to children with a preface for parents (media/design), and you choose MLA format for the script. You will need to determine to whom should you argue your position—who can respond, act on your argument? How as a writer can you best persuade that audience?

Criteria for Evaluation

As with all major assignments in the course, you will be evaluated using the standard English 2367 Writing Assignments Grading Rubric. The following are
additional major essay requirements specific to this assignment and genre:

· Present a clear and arguable position—include the thesis (statement of the topic + point of significance—overall claim) toward the end of the introduction.

· Include necessary background information on the issue topic.

· Offer good reasons—use various writing and development strategies.

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Provide convincing evidence using accurate, well-researched information from credible and relevant sources; at least six, but no more than ten, sources are to be used—at least four of these need to be secondary sources found through CSCC library research, but others may be primary (primary sources such as interviews, memoirs, government or organization web sites are optional and not required). You may include any and all credible and relevant sources from your Critical Analysis. Encyclopedia entries and web sites found using search engines like Google (.com, .org, .edu, etc.), are acceptable secondary sources for this assignment.

· Use MLA or APA format, depending on your chosen rhetorical situation. Cite each source used both in the text with in-text citations and in a bibliography.

· Show patterns in and relationships among other arguments by synthesizing ideas.

· Appeal to readers’ values.

· Use a trustworthy tone.

· Include careful consideration of other positions—either throughout the project citing counterclaims or before concluding.

· Use appropriate media and design—if using video and/or audio, be sure to include a script that is at least 1,750 words long and follows MLA or APA format.

English 2367 Detailed Outline Assignment:

A Detailed Outline for the Persuasive Research Essay

For this assignment, you are asked to start thinking about The Persuasive Research Essay you must write. To complete this assignment, please see the blank outline template below and submit it filled out with your own information/planning for your own persuasive research essay. This outline has a specific format, which is listed below with details, examples and a blank template for you to use/fill out with your topic. Your detailed outline submission must include all 3 sections listed: Topic Overview, Body Paragraphs and Conclusion. The final draft of your outline must be 2-3 pages.

1. Topic Overview:

In this section, you should write up your introduction paragraph. This introduction paragraph should include:

· General information about the topic

· Background/context to help the reader understand both sides of the argument (list both sides of the argument as you see them)

· An overview of issues/points of view/ideas surrounding the topic

· Your thesis statement

A note on your thesis: Your thesis should make a statement that is supported by reasons: I believe this because of x, y and z reasons.

Example Thesis: Technology has positively influenced the business field because it has enhanced marketing, improved user interaction through advanced software programs, such as Microsoft Office, and it has helped make the work day more productive because of the invention of computers.

2. Body paragraphs/Sections: In this section, list at minimum 3 body paragraphs or sections. For each body paragraph, write up the topic sentence, and provide at least 1-2 things you’ll want to discuss in that paragraph. Then under each of the two things you’ll want to discuss, pick a source from your Annotated Bibliography Assignment that you’ll use in that paragraph to support that idea/thing you want to discuss.

Example

Body Paragraph:

Topic Sentence:

The positive impacts of technology on business have really brought about

marketing development for business of all sizes. With the impact of social media advertisement,

small and large businesses alike have been able to grow their customer base and improve

profits. Twitter and Facebook are the best examples of how technology has really impacted

advertising for the better.

Will talk about detail/supporting idea:

Twitter, how everyone now lists “follow us on Twitter” and how they include it in their advertising materials and post updates, sales and specials from their business.

Source I will use in this paragraph:

Cunningham, T. (2014, Dec. 07). 10 trends that will impact small businesses in 2015. Retrieved from:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/bizmonday/article4324659.html

Will talk about detail/supporting idea: Facebook, how Facebook pages have now become the new website. They’re cheaper to maintain, but easier to use. Now lots of businesses have Facebook pages to keep their customers up to date on the happenings of their business.

Source I will use in this paragraph:

Bruno, K. (2010, Sept. 28). Advertising week 2010: The advertising impact of

facebook. Retrieved from:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marketshare/2010/09/28/advertising-week-2010-theadvertising-impact-of-facebook/

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Source I will use in this paragraph:
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3. Conclusion: In this section, you should write up your conclusion paragraph, which should include some sort of summary of your main points and the message or idea you want to leave with your readers.

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English 2367 Detailed Outline Assignment:

Blank Outline Template

1. Topic Overview:

2. Body Paragraphs/Sections:

a. Body Paragraph/Section 1

i. Idea 1:

ii. Idea 2:

iii. Source(s) to use in this section:

b. Body Paragraph/Section 2

i. Idea 1:
ii. Idea 2:
iii. Source(s) to use in this section:

c. Body Paragraph/Section 3

i. Idea 1:
ii. Idea 2:
iii. Source(s) to use in this section:

3. Conclusion:

Writing Project 3 Prewriting

For this project I have chosen the issue of police brutality which is gradually crawling back specifically affecting youths and teens residing in low economic suburbs in Georgia.

My project will therefore target the residents in these localities particularly the youth, parents and opinion shapers with regards to shaping public policies. These stakeholders include activism NGOs, social researchers and the local political leadership.

This initiative was inspired by a presentation made by Isabela Robinson on Ted Talks in March last year where she suggested the evils subjected on young citizens by the police and the effect this has on their development (TEDx Talks, 2019).

Research Question- The role of social media in reporting cases of police brutality in low economic status suburbs in Savannah.

To collect primary data for my study, I have interviewed two victims of this social evil, their respective parents and have complemented this information with records of hospitalized victims and an expert opinion from a local researcher affiliated to social activism firm in Savannah.

In this project I will persuade the residents of the suburbs to embark on forming social networks and giving these cases the publicity they need to be exposed and attended.

To successfully convince the residence to use social media to root out police brutality I will use experts and opinions from authorities of the sociology of policing, present to them statistics of those affected by the issue and the worrying trend and later present the sorry states of those whose lives have been negative affected by the issue.

However, disrespect for authorities in many instances prompt the police to apply violence (Silver, 2017). I will emphasize on cooperation with the police and a call for the youth to desist from violence and drug abuse as the police have cited these as their resolve to apply violence to apprehend some youths.

To seek more information on this project, I have used the PsycINFO catalogue in the Cleveland State Community College to identify scholarly articles relating to the issue. Here is have found articles and videos which are more important as they have more elaborate data. I have not had any trouble sourcing information on the project.

References

Silver, A. (2017). The demand for order in civil society: A review of some themes in the history of urban crime, police, and riot. In Theories and origins of the modern police (pp. 23-46). Routledge. Retrieved from;

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315084824/chapters/10.4324/9781315084824-3

TEDx Talks. (2019, March 7). Social Media’s Impact on Cases of Police Brutality. Retrieved from;