How can Medical Institutions use color psychology to help with patients’ health?

ntroduction: Through the earlier assignments in this class like the Pre-Research Brainstorming,
Annotated Bibliography, and Proposal, you’ve been exploring a topic and working towards developing an
argument that interests you. Now you will write an argumentative essay by building on what you’ve
learned from the previous assignments. Making an argument—expressing a point of view on a subject
and supporting it with evidence—is the aim of scholarly writing, even if the word “argument” is never
used. In fact, in scholarly writing contexts, you will almost always do more than report on information
that you have gathered through research.
As part of constructing your ARE for WRIT 111, you should examine scholarly sources that explore a
range of perspectives on contemporary issues being debated in various academic disciplines. You will put
scholarly sources into conversation with one another by drawing connections or pointing out disparities
among and between them, which is what synthesis is all about. As a new member of the academic
community, you should find where your voice, perspective, and argument fit into the existing
conversation, and offer your own unique contribution that extends that conversation in some new
direction.
Requirements:
● 8-10 pages, double spaced
● Separate Works Cited or References page/s that doesn’t count toward the page count
● Minimum of 6 sources, most of which must be scholarly. (Most students will have an average of
8-10 sources for this paper. Be prepared to have your choices scrutinized. Your ethos as a
researcher is determined in part by your source selection.)
● Bolded thesis that a reasonable reader could disagree with and that contains 2-4 subclaims that are
well supported, serving as a roadmap for your essay
● Enters an ongoing scholarly conversation and adds your unique contribution
● Implications of your argument are evident and clearly answers the question: “So what?”
● Addresses other perspectives or counterarguments
● Organized in a purposeful and persuasive structure where each idea builds off the last
● Correct use of summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation to avoid plagiarism
● Scholarly tone chosen for specific scholarly or professional audience
● Includes MLA Works Cited page and in-text citations (or other style agreed upon with instructor)
Challenges: The challenge is entering an ongoing conversation and adding your own unique contribution
in your argument. This requires thoughtful choices about what to include, synthesis in putting sources in
conversation with one another, and confidence to add your own voice. A reader should see you
constructing a central argument supported by subclaims that are backed by evidence from sources.
Remember, at the heart of a scholarly argument essay like your ARE is rhetoric: communication designed
to persuade an audience.