Can prosecutors play a role in reforming the justice system or are they too much a part of the problem?

Purpose and Objectives

For this assignment, you will create an outline for your 2nd essay by using an online note-taking tool called PowerNotesLinks to an external site..  You will use PowerNotes to document your research and add examples from the book, Unfair. PowerNotes is a research driven tool to help you organize your quotes, notes, and citations from online library materials.

By completing this assignment, you will be meeting the following objectives: 

• Conduct basic research using library tools
• Organize your ideas and support to form a well-organized thesis-driven essay
• Demonstrate engagement in a full and productive writing process
• Synthesize sources to provide support for your thesis-driven essay
• Incorporate various sources into essays using appropriate documentation format

Instructions

Step 1: PowerNotes Lesson/Tutorial

Before completing this assignment, you must read the Welcome to PowerNotes lesson and watch the embedded tutorials. Do not create your outline before doing so. You will learn how to create an account, add the PowerNotes extension to your browser, annotate your research, and use that research in a PowerNotes generated outline.

Step 2: Create Your Project/Outline and Annotate

Once you’ve learned how to use PowerNotes, you will first create a project (outline) using PowerNotesLinks to an external site.. Next, you will find examples from the research you did through the LMC library databasesLinks to an external site. to annotate and embed into your outline. 

Step 3: Outline Requirements

After you’ve created a PowerNotes account and added the extension, you’ll know how to annotate your research and create a PowerNotes outline, which you will eventually submit. In the outline, you need to meet the below requirements:

1. Create a Working Thesis (this is just an idea…doesn’t have to be set in stone)
2. Create 3 Points (that tie in with your working thesis) 
3. Add 3 Quoted Examples (to any of your points)
   • 2 quoted examples must come from your researched LMC library source 
   • 1 quoted example from Just Pursuit
   • Note: Library source quotes must include notes taken through PowerNotes from you. You must show you did more than simply copy quotes or cite a source. Instead, show you engaged with your research by taking notes with PowerNotes on what you’ve included in your outline.

Once you’ve got the above, you will download that outline and upload it to this assignment.

Please note, your outline is listing the bare minimum for your essay and is just a starting point. Since essay 2 is longer than essay 1, for your final draft, you will want more examples (not listed in your outline perhaps) and more body paragraphs (go beyond the 5-paragraph structure). Each point you come up with can be more than one paragraph!