M13 Writing Project 4 Argument First Draft

Assessment Specifics

Your Purpose Statement

• Minimum 200 words (successful analyses are often longer)
• Answer some of the following questions to determine your audience: Who has a stake in this issue? Who would care about your position on this issue? Who do you think can benefit from hearing your arguments about the issue? Who do you think needs to be made aware of the issue and your viewpoint on it? Who do you think is impacted by the problem or issue that would like to hear that someone is on their side? Who you do you want to persuade or convince of the view or course of action you are advocating?
• Following Step 2 in CHAPTERS 3 and 13, analyze and specifically describe your Time, Place, and Purpose of your draft.
• Place your purpose statement at the beginning of your first draft, before the first page of your actual composition

Your First Draft

• An essay taking a stand and making arguments in support of a view or course of action on the issue, problem, or controversy developed in Writing Project 3.
• Clearly focused, debatable, and supportable thesis statement advocating your view on the problem or controversy
• Use of evidence from sources, objectively and accurately interpreted
• Effective reasoning that demonstrates how the evidence supports the thesis and the specific arguments being made
• A logical organizational structure that clearly and effectively guides readers through the arguments being made
• Use of evidence from sources (at least 10 quotations and/or paraphrases), clearly discernible from each other and from the writer’s voice and cited using correct in-text citations
• Use of at least 5 relevant and highly credible sources, at least 4 from the Ivy Tech Library databases. (No Print Sources.)
• APA or MLA manuscript style, as specified by your instructor, with in-text citations and a References or Works Cited list including ALL sources used. (References or Works Cited list does not count in the minimum word-count requirement)
• Observation of the conventions of Standard English

1250 words minimum for first draft (the minimum 200 words for your purpose statement is not included in this count)

Rubric

Writing Project 4 Argument First Draft Rubric