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The researched argument is an 8-10 page argument examining an issue you have identified that we have discussed in the course. Unit 3 has taken you through many of the preparatory steps for writing this paper. So far you have identified an issue which interests you, completed a working bibliography, and developed your position and a claim about your chosen issue. Please be sure to revise and edit this paper before turning it in.
Instructions:
In this paper, you will write your argument in response to your chosen topic. Your paper should be based on your ideas; it should not be a summary of what other people say. This is not an informational paper. This paper should develop your argument on your topic. Your paper should clearly identify your issue. It should have a clear claim and well developed reasons. It should use at least 4 appropriately cited quotes, at least 4 appropriately cited paraphrases (you may use more as needed), and a Works Cited page in MLA format. Use long quotes sparingly.
Please note: Your paper must be more than strung together quotes and paraphrases. It should stand on its own without the quotes and paraphrases. At this point you should be working on a draft of your paper.
Tip: I often suggest that students first write a draft of the paper without supporting sources to ensure that the paper is well developed and relies primarily on your writing and conclusions. Once you have written a draft, you can go back and add in outside sources to support each of your points.
Each paragraph should be well developed with controlling ideas and transitions. The logic supporting your argument should be well thought out and sound. There should be a clear flow of ideas throughout your paper.
This paper should focus on your ideas and conclusions based on your research. It should be developed on your thoughts, your plan and your words. Please remember to include in-text citations to indicate any material that is borrowed. Plagiarism (intentional or unintentional) will result in failure of the assignment.
The following consists of plagiarism:
“Accidental” missing citations of written text
Missing citations of visuals
Missing entries on the Works Cited page
Missing Works Cited page
Please view the grading rubric and the MLA formatting videos that are available at the end of this weekly module.
Other requirements:
Length: 2000-2500 words plus a Works Cited page with at least 10 sources (a minimum of 5 scholarly sources).
Works Cited pages with incorrect titles will incur a 10-point deduction.
Works Cited pages with un-alphabetized entries will incur a 10-point deduction.
Font: 12 point, Times New Roman, Arial or another standard font
Format: Paper should meet all academic expectations for grammar, sentence structure and style.
You must use page numbers and a standard header in MLA style
Essays should always be double-spaced.
You should develop a clear, useful, and interesting title.
Your tone and vocabulary choice should reflect college-level writing.
You should include one image integrated into the paper that supports your argument. Be sure to cite it properly. It can be a cartoon, graph, or PSA.
You should include clear subheadings to guide your reader throughout the paper
Attched there are some sources that you may use throughout the argument
Let me know if there are anny questions.

MLA 9th edition, For this assignment, you are going to summarize and respond to the article, “Virtual Classrooms Can Be as Unequal as Real Ones” ( link below) from The Atlantic. In the first few lines of your assignment, you should provide a brief introduction of the topic of the article before you transition to a detailed summary. After your summary, write a thorough response to the article that focuses on the author’s thesis and supporting details. You can agree, disagree, or meet the author somewhere in the middle, but you must explain your ideas about the article and the topic in full.
Summary: Your summary should include all the elements of academic summaries outlined in the Week One materials (“How to Write a Summary” and “Writing Summaries”),(link below) including the author’s name and the article title, an objective rendering of the author’s thesis and main ideas, and signal phrases throughout to give the author credit for their ideas.
Response: Your response can include an analysis of the author, their purpose, the intended audience, the style and tone of the text, the organization and presentation of ideas, and the assumptions/values being presented. Also, you can reflect on the effectiveness of the thesis, the ideas with which you agree and/or disagree, and the article’s meanings, implications. Feel free to include your own observations or prior knowledge about the topic.
NOTE: This assignment should be a minimum of several paragraphs long. Be sure to use signal phrases, paraphrases, and even direct quotations from the article if necessary. For correct formatting, watch at a minimum the two MLA formatting videos in this module. Part of your grade is based on your ability to write in the required format.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/inequaity-in-the-virtual-classroom/501311/

Writing Summaries

After watching “What Makes a Hero?”, choose a favorite character from a book, movie, TV show, comic or other form of entertainment and show how that character’s journey matches the “monomyth” taught by Joseph Campbell.
Without spoilers (so no discussing conclusions, surprises, twists, endings, deaths, etc…) write three to four paragraphs matching qualities of the character and his/her story to the defined qualities of a hero in the video by Joseph Campbell.

Requirement:
Application essay: Individual essays should not exceed 400 words.
Describe your academic and personal goals and how these may be further achieved by studying at our institution
during the summer.
My essay:
I want to state my hopes to be admitted to Summer Prep. Your highly recommended institution
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My motivation for taking on a career in mental health is rooted in the important role that psychologists pursue. In
my AP Psychology course, I learned that it is an essential science that allows people to have a better understanding of each other and includes the factors that influence individual behavior. I additionally have been interested in
mental states as I have had background knowledge on it based on documentaries I have watched. The mental
state that stuck out to me was autopilot, which is when someone is zoned out. Many wrongdoings, such as drug
use, can be understood better when psychology is applied. In addition to working on Psychology, I wish to be able
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I have attached the assignment as well as the readings needed for the assignment. PLEASE read
carefully and throughly the assingment. Thank You!

The writer should read the attached article and write a short summary of around 260 words. I will upload the article, the writer should only cite from thearticle provided. No outside sources is allowed. The citations must come
from the article itself. I have also uploaded the assignment requirements, kindly adhere to the requirements.

Must Have read “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” What is a Prospectus?
In essence, a Prospectus is a short summary that informs the reader about the direction, goals, and questions of the Senior Thesis.
Writing a thoughtful Prospectus will be a useful way to begin interrogating the deep questions of your Thesis; a completed Prospectus will give you a kind of template for your Thesis itself.
Your Prospectus will be limited to one page. In this exploratory stage, the idea is that you outline your proposed project.
A successful Prospectus will explore the following components:
1. Purpose
What is your reason for writing? What problem or issue does this thesis help address/solve?
2. Scope
What core phenomenon/dynamic will you focus on in this thesis?
Where in the text will you concentrate your attention?
3. Methods
What kinds of evidence will you look at, and provide?
How might you make you structure your exploration? (Organization, etc.)
4. Consequences
What are the implications of the issue you are writing about?
5. Possible conclusions/ big questions
What conclusions might you draw from your study of the issue?
What larger questions might your essay seek to explore?
What other connections or parallels might you draw?

it’s is rhetorical essay
now that you have read about, watched the PowerPoint on and taken the quiz on rhetorical analysis, let’s discuss how to structure your essay. Here is your prompt:
Paper 1 – Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Everyone uses rhetoric to achieve his/her goals and desires. Some goals and desires seem unimportant; others are obviously a bit more important.
Having read the transcript of the TED Talk by Shawn Achor: “The Happy Secret to Better Work.” and having watched it, analyze its rhetoric.
Decide on the speaker’s purpose and argument, then, analyze which rhetorical strategies he uses to develop said purpose and argument. Why are these effective or why are they not effective?
You must also include a Works Cited page with your paper.
Be sure your paper is well-organized with a clear thesis. Each paragraph should have a clear topic sentence and concluding sentence. It must be typed. Staple your outline and rough draft underneath your final draft and the rubric should be last.
Your paper should be 3 – 4 double-spaced typed pages and MLA formatted – one-inch margins and 12-point font. Use a MLA heading and a header. If a draft is not turned in, your final paper grade will be lowered by one letter grade.
Remember – I do not take late papers.
Here are the steps to take to organize your essay:
1. Prewrite and Outline
A. Do the rhetorical square. Decide on Achor’s purpose, argument, audience and persona.
Keep in mind purpose and argument are very similar, but they are not the same. Purpose
is the “what” – what the writer or speaker wants us to do or believe. Argument is the “how”
he/she persuades us – does he use ethos, pathos, logos, humor, anecdotes (stories),
diction, syntax, parallelism, etc? There are so many language elements you can use for
your paper. You may use one element; you may use four. You may use as many as you
like. It’s your call. You’re the writer; you’re the boss. Audience is important, and you are
analyzing a TED Talk: What do you know about them? Who watches/listens to them?
Persona is oftentimes the hardest. Who is Achor in this TED Talk? Is he advocating,
informing, educating, selling? Is he sad, excited, angry, happy?
B. After you have your prewriting, you will share it on our Discussion Board.
C. After you have shared your prewriting and read your classmates’, do your outline.
Remember, outlines are 50 points, and format counts. Use the format I gave you in the
Writing Process PowerPoint.
2. Structure
A. Your thesis should have Achor’s purpose in it, as well as the rhetorical strategies you will
discuss in your paper.
Each topic sentence should tell the rhetorical strategy you will analyze in that paragraph,
for example, pathos or diction. Next, choose an example, and only choose one. For
example, if you are analyzing pathos, perhaps you will talk about Achor’s story of his
sister and how it made the audience feel. Then, analyze it. This is the most important
part: Why did Achor choose that story? Who cares? So what? Connect it to his
purpose. If you have more than one example per paragraph, you will not analyze each
one fully, so choose only one per paragraph.
B. If you choose to write about different rhetorical strategies, each paragraph should be a
different one. For example, one paragraph discussing pathos, one on anecdotes, one on
logos. If you choose to do your whole paper on pathos, each paragraph will be a different
example of pathos.
3. Do your outline and optional rough draft.
Note: Because our course is accelerated, I am not requiring a rough draft; however, the outline is still required. That being said, I highly recommend you submit a rough draft because I will still expect the final draft to be revised and polished.

Please no outside sources
Essay prompt
• First, review “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin; be sure you know what circumstance really caused Louise’s heart to fail upon seeing her husband alive after all: be aware of details like how she reacts to news of her husband’s death, how she perceives her relationship to him, and her resentment to his imposition of his will upon her.
• Second, as we see from the story “Once Aboard the Lugger,” Nance accepts the pattern imposed upon her of being a wife, and perhaps, a mother; how she becomes a wife is another matter. First, she reverses the usual gender roles of courtship in which the man makes the first touch, initiates the affection, offers the first kiss, and states the proposal of marriage; second, she steps out of her social status as a citizen of Ruan to do so. At what point in the story does she make a decision to do all the above, and what motivates her to do it? After all, after seeing Samuel preach his sermon and wondering what he would be like as a husband, she remembers she is a Ruan girl, not one of Troy, and she is prepared to forget all about him and take the ferry back home to dinner.
What changes her mind?
For Essay One, consider the following: D. H. Lawrence proposes, in his essay “Give Her a Pattern,” that men impose upon women patterns of behavior and customs, and men expect women to adhere to these patterns, the most general and persistent pattern being the expectation that every woman will become a wife and mother. This has been, and certainly was during the last two centuries, the role expected of every woman. You have read “The Story of an Hour” and “Once Aboard the Lugger.” Ask yourself, what patterns are Louise and Nance following? Are the patterns only the roles they are expected to follow, or does society place additional expectations upon them in regard to class?
Discuss how these women characters handle the patterns they follow in an essay due as a first draft for Tuesday, January 8. Introduce the essay by introducing the two short stories, “The Story of an Hour” and “Once Aboard the Lugger,” and how the stories present two women characters who follow the pattern of marriage, but explain in the essay how they handle the pattern, and for Nance, what additional patterns she is expected to follow in regard to class and courtship.
Please note: when writing about literature, whether fiction or non-fiction, we use present tense verbs when referring to the actions or speech of characters and authors. Thus, we use say, remark, comment, reply, utter and other present tense forms in place of said, remarked, commented, replied, uttered, and other past tense forms.
The reasoning is this: whenever you read the text, the author’s words are being read in the present, not in the past; you are reading the text now, and the author’s words are relevant to your experience of reading now. This practice of using present tense verbs in this way is called “the literary present.”
This idea also applies to song lyrics and poetry, which become relevant later in the course.
• When referring to the song’s lyrics or a performer’s performance of it, use the present tense verbs. You see, whenever you listen to the song, the performer is singing it now. We know objectively that the performer sang it, but for us the performer is singing it now.
• When we read the poem, we are reading it in the present; the action of the poem’s narrator speaking is present, not past.
Citing Sources in the essay
For citing your sources in the essay, the first time you provide a quote from Chopin, for example, use (Chopin 1) if it’s from page one, or (Chopin 2) if it’s from page two. As long as you’re still citing Chopin, only the page number in parentheses is necessary, like this: (2). If you’re citing Quiller-Couch, since he calls himself “Q,” you may do it this way, using “Q” and then the page number: (Q 5). As long as you’re still citing Q, only the page number in parentheses is necessary, like this: (5). This pattern will persist for each essay you write: as long as you’re quoting the same source, once you have provided the author and page number, successive citations need only be the page number in parentheses. As soon as you cite a different author, the author’s last name and the page number must be placed in the citation.

Watch the three videos.
Give a personal response to the three videos in one response paragraph. See annotated example in module.
1. In your response, include any similarities that you see among the three experiences.
2. Your first sentence should state the main point you wish to make in your response; then support that point throughout the rest of the paragraph.
3. Use first and third person voice. No second person (No you or your types of pronouns).
4. Incorporate a minimum of one quote or paraphrase from each video to support your response.
5. Add in-text citation and Works Cited page for the three videos.
6. Write in the present tense.
Format: MLA Formatting with header, double spacing, 1″ margins, 12 Point Times New Roman font, and title. See “Annotated Example” in Module and video.
Length: Minimum of one double spaced page – one paragraph.
Response suggestions.
What do you think is the point or purpose of the videos?
Do you think the videos achieved that purpose?
Describe any similarities that you found in the videos.
What did you find interesting in the videos?
What did you think of the messages in the videos?
Incorporate your personal response to the video. Did any of these stories have an impact on you? If so, how.
Did you think the videos adequately demonstrated any contemporary global events or customs.
Did you find gain a unique global perspective from the videos? If so, in what way.
Other comments that you would like to add.
After you type, revise, edit and proof your response, submit it to discussion forum by due date; then reply to two students per instructions in discussion forum.
Please review the following (3) links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhNoHCQv-g0%5d