This assignment is designed to demonstrate the following skills:
- Apply a variety of rhetorical strategies to write unified, well-organized essays with arguable theses and persuasive support.
- Analyze, interpret, and evaluate texts and sources (primary and secondary).
- Integrate the ideas of others through paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting in an appropriate documentation format.
- Demonstrate proofreading and editing techniques so that written work conforms to the conventions of standard, written, academic English.
Directions
- After soliciting feedback from at least a single tutor, revise your research essay and submit a full-length edited final draft to this assignment.
- There will be no revision of this assignment.
- Please review the following checklist to make sure that you have included all the necessary elements.
Checklist
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- Your essay must have a single sentence thesis as the last sentence of the introduction.
- Your essay must define the problem and then propose solutions.
- Your paragraphs must all have an appropriate structure (Intro should be HIT, the body should be MEAL style paragraphs).
- Counter-arguments and rebuttals are required.
- The minimum word count for the research assignment is 1,500 words. Maximum 1,800 words.
- Remember to include an MLA 8thedition works cited page at the end of your essay that includes a minimum of four (4) sources that are referenced in the body of your essay.
- At least three (3) of your four (4) sources must be from our Merced Library online databases and be peer-reviewed, academic journal articles. All sources must be used to support your points throughout the research essay.
- You may add sources to your research essay that were not in your annotated bibliography. Include them in your Works Cited.
- Your essay should be MLA formatted including double-spacing, 12 point Times New Roman or Calibri font, and all other elements of MLA format.
- You are not allowed to use “I,” “we,” or “you” in this essay. A.k.a. first and second person.
- Refrain from using contractions (don’t should be written “do not”).
- Please make sure to proofread before submitting. I recommend reading the draft aloud with a pen or pencil in hand to mark any errors.
- Use your best formal language and paragraph structure.
- The Merced college database. Link: https://caccl-merced.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=everything&vid=01CACCL_MERCED:MERCED&query=any,contains,&query=Mental%20health%20