Thesis/Body paragraph with sources integrated and cited in-text (10 points)
: Quiz #3 (10 points)
Rough draft due (Your draft must be at least four body paragraphs long and include in-text citations and Works Cited page) (10 points)
Peer reviews due (5 points)
: Final draft is due (100 points)
Notice that the entire week of is designed to allow you to finish your reading to prepare for the Annotated Bibliography and to allow you to begin to formulate your thesis and your body paragraph, both of which are due the week of
If, as you write this paper you feel as though you are merely repeating what other sources say, rest assured that you are doing it correctly. This essay is assessing your grammatical, summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, organizing and documenting skills. It is forcing you to read deeply into a subject to better allow you to develop a credible academic writing voice. It requires you to demonstrate the ability to narrow the scope of a broad subject in such a way as to allow you to manage an appropriately narrowed topic.
Does Your Essay Meet the Requirements?
Read all of these carefully and post questions or email me. Items 1-14 will help while you’re revising your draft; Item 15 is only required for your final draft.
1. Does the introduction end with a clear thesis that narrows down the topic of multitasking? Does your thesis emphasize the word “research” and does it clearly identify the narrowed topic of your essay?
2. Does the essay have at least 4 body paragraphs? Does every body paragraph include support from a source (or multiple sources)?
3. Is the first body paragraph a context paragraph that uses sources to explain the concept of multitasking?
Do each of your body paragraphs have a clear topic sentence at or near the beginning?
4. Are your body paragraphs only about one narrowed topic? If you have to write two body paragraphs about one narrowed topic, that is great! You want to be able to dig deeply into a topic to explain it thoroughly.
5. Do you effectively explain sources and transitions between elements within each paragraph?
6. Do you effectively transition between paragraphs?
7. Do you use the appropriate type and amount of sources (at least 4 sources including 1 academic journal article)? Remember, you can only use the sources posted in the Essay #1 Sources module.
8. Does the essay have at least one paraphrase? And, does it avoid using block quotations?
9. Do all quotations and paraphrases
