Purpose: This assignment will support our inherit course goal of engaging in wri

Purpose: This assignment will support our inherit course goal of engaging in writing as a process and support our understanding of all eight of our Course Learning Objectives, but particularly, Objective 8: Apply research and writing strategies to research-based analytic and argumentative writing.
A fully complete draft of the current assignment, including MLA/APA citations is required for this task. The draft should present your best work for your peers. You may use the tutoring lab and librarians for help.
Knowledge and Skills: The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills while incorporating knowledge, from the readings and class sessions, that are essential to your success in this course, in college as a whole, and your professional life beyond school:
Understanding and applying basic writing knowledge, and using applicable digital tools,
Analyzing, synthesizing, judging/evaluating, and
Selecting best solutions create original texts.
Task: You will submit a fully completed Draft of the current assignment the evening before the Peer Evaluation session according our course calendar and due date provided on IvyLearn.
Criteria for Success:
A fully complete draft of the current assignment, including MLA/APA citations is required for this task. The draft should present your best work for your peers. You may use the tutoring lab and librarians for help before submitting the draft.
The Peer Evaluation/Rubric found in the corresponding module is a helpful tool to guide conversation and feedback.
The in-class discussions and peer evaluations will add a layer of polish and scholarly appeal on top of your singular effort.
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Position Paper Assignment:
Position
This assignment is the culmination of all major written works this term, sharing the same topic and directly connecting to the Exploratory, Proposal, and Counter Argument.
Purpose: This assignment will further develop the argumentative line of reasoning that you have previously chosen for your researched argument and shared in the Exploratory, Proposal and Counter Argument. This task will support our understanding of our Course Learning Objectives .
Knowledge and Skills: The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills while incorporating knowledge, from the readings and class sessions, that are essential to your success in this course, in college as a whole, and your professional life beyond school:
Demonstrating an understanding of what constitutes a valid argument and show understanding of the opposition to your position.
Understanding and applying basic writing knowledge, and using applicable digital tools,
Analyzing, synthesizing, judging/evaluating, and
Selecting best solutions to create original texts.
Task: You will write a 7 – 10-page work further developing the researchable argumentative topic/stance you chose for the Proposal. Successful papers will be between seven and ten full pages of actual writing. This page count excludes works cited/references page material and title page material or abstract if using APA. Papers not meeting the minimum length will receive a failing grade.
This end-of-semester work –the equivalence of our final exam– should show your competence in quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing source materials, as well as display correct in-text parenthetical documentation along with an end of paper, Works Cited (MLA) or References (APA) page.
Remember, consulting with a librarian one-on-one for help is encouraged. You can consult a librarian at the Ask-A-Librarian page on the Ivy Tech Library site:
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You can submit a question via the form at that page and the question will be answered as soon as possible (maybe not till next day if question is submitted after hours).
You can click the “Chat Now!” button to chat live with an Ivy Tech librarian during business hours.
Criteria for Success:
• Be 7 – 10 pages of actual writing further developing the topic from the Class Paper.
A minimum of five sources and corresponding citations must used and correctly formatted according to MLA or APA requirements. This requires both an in-text parenthetical citation and the full list of sources at the end of the document. Failure to do so will be understood as intentional or accidental plagiarism. The quality of the majority of sources must be of the type discussed in class, i.e. Peer Reviewed Journals. Please use the college library. Review MLA/APA formatting in the textbook, in the library, and on the internet. Margins, Page Numbering, indention, spacing, etc. should all comply with current guidelines.
Demonstrate your knowledge of rhetorical models by identifying your claim, adding proofs to make your paper more convincing, ensuring aspects of logos, ethos, pathos, and mythos while avoiding logical fallacies.
Address the following items in your paper.
Introduce the issue.
Explain the controversy and what others have claimed about this issue.
Explain the prominent positions.
Explain in detail how you agree or disagree with the positions held about your issue.
Consider the audience value for the paper.
Provide evidence and support for your claim and show the connections between the evidence presented and your claim.
Decide where to put your most powerful evidence.
Decide how and where the rest of your evidence will be presented.
Decide where in the paper you should show counter arguments.
Acknowledge what has been left out of the discussion about the topic.
Retain your scholarly title which shows your stance: something like: Avocado Toast: Shifting Power Fears from Baby Boomers to Millennials
Edit: successfully eliminating grammatical and mechanical errors.
Submitting your work: Paper must be word-processed with Microsoft Word or Google Docs and submitted to IvyLearn in the Assignment link as an upload. Emailed works and weblinks will not be accepted.
Examples: Examples of this assignment are found in Module 07: Create: Propose & Persuade. Supporting information on APA and MLA formatting requirements can be found in M09: Review: Formatting APA & MLA.