How should you format your essay

Reference no: EM131918389

Assignment: AUDIENCE and PURPOSE

• Who is your audience? Write your essay for a reader who is an educated adult who is not familiar with the issue and its opposing views.

• What is your purpose? To analyze a key difference between two opposing views on a single issue.

LENGHT and FORMAT

• How long should Essay 5 be? Essay 5 is made up of three paragraphs: two summaries and a thoroughly developed analysis paragraph that follows the MEAL plan and other closed-form prose conventions. Each of the summary paragraphs will be 100-150 words in length, considering the brevity of the source texts you are analyzing. Generally, an effective MEAL plan analysis paragraph will be 400-500 words long.

• How should you format your essay?

o Your essay must apply MLA paper formatting guidelines, but you don't need a works cited page:

- How to do MLA format in Word
- How to do MLA format in Googledocs
- How to do MLA format in Pages

CONTENT

• What is required in your two summary paragraphs?

o Use attributive tags to attribute the ideas to the author:

- use the author's last name or he/she
- use precise signal verbs (see Step 4 in Lesson 1 for a list of signal verbs),

o Use transitions and other signposts to show the relationship between the ideas, capturing the structure and flow of the source's ideas,
o Represent the source's ideas accurately, fairly, objectively, and comprehensively yet concisely,
o And use quotations sparingly, if at all.

• What is required in the body paragraph?

o Apply the MEAL Plan paragraphing strategy for effective development and structure

- It must present one main idea that...

- Presents one significant or key difference between the opposing views

- Announces the importance of this difference

- It must present evidence from both sources that difference exists (this could be one or more quotations)

- It must sufficiently analyze the examples to make the case for your main idea: that difference is important and how it is important to the discussion

o Apply the the Old/New Contract strategy for effective organization
o Properly quote examples as covered

Article: Should Community Collage Tuition be free? by Walter G. Bumphus and Richard Vedder.

Reference no: EM131918389

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