Argument essay

Argument Essay Assignment

Topic

Choose from one of the seven bullet points in the “A Guided Writing Assignment” section on page 558 in your textbook.

Formatting

Standard MLA formatting with a four-line heading, a centered title, and a header.

Times New Roman

Size 12

Consistently double spaced

Word Count

The content of your essay, excluding heading, header, and works cited information, should reach at least 1500 words to receive full credit for the word count criteria on the grading rubric.

Thesis

Your thesis state should be the last sentence of the first paragraph. It should not be a quote, a question, a statement of fact, or source material. It should clearly identify your position on the topic. Your thesis statement should include the word should.

Content

Refer to your assigned textbook chapter to review how to organize and develop an Argument essay.

Point of View

You must write using third person, objective point of view. You may not use first person (I, me, we, our) or second person (you) in this paper, unless it is within a quote.

Assessment for this assignment

For this draft of your essay, you will submit a complete draft of your writing assignment. This draft is not a rough draft; it should be the best you can make it on your own, and is assessed on the following criteria:

Focus on assignment

MLA format

Spacing

Document should be consistently double spaced throughout.

Make sure paragraphs are indented correctly

Make sure paragraphs are somewhat symmetric

Size 12 Times New Roman font

Length (1500 words)

Content

Your essay must have a clearly defined and established argument. Take a position.

A good argument will acknowledge (concede or refute) counterarguments.

Sources

This assignment REQUIRES research; therefore, you must have in-text citations and a works cited page in your essay.

You must utilize and correctly cite information from an article in the librarys database.

You must utilize and correctly cite information from a website that does NOT end with .com.

You must utilize and correctly cite information from a third source of your choice.

Since you must use at least three sources, you should have at least three sources listed alphabetically on your works cited page and you should have at least three different in-text citations in your essay