2. Develop a research question about mental health among college students. You can look at what is being done to help students cope with mental health concerns.

This assignment is designed to demonstrate the following skills:

  1. Apply a variety of rhetorical strategies to write unified, well-organized essays with arguable theses and persuasive support.
  2. Analyze, interpret, and evaluate texts and sources (primary and secondary).
  3. Integrate the ideas of others through paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting in an appropriate documentation format.
  4. 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

    • 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

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