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Jim Roth’s Website English 101 ESSAY #3 ASSIGNMENT Essay
#3 Video Explanation—Summer 2014 This week we begin
our final essay, and it's an easy one to explain. First, select any Viewpoints essay you have not already
written about, as well as one of the Pursing Possible Essay Topics suggested
at the end of the essay you choose. As
with Essay
#2, your response to the Pursing Possible Essay Topics prompt will form your essay’s thesis. Second, using the research
skills you learned, find at least one article that has information relating
to the Viewpoints essay you’ve
chosen. Third, write a
summary-and-response essay (same structure and requirements specified in Essay
#2) in which you blend words from the Viewpoints
essay as well words from the article(s) you located. Be sure your essay's
introductory paragraph includes the five elements we've practiced: the name
of the Viewpoints essay’s author, the name of the Viewpoints essay, a brief summary
of the essay, a transition to your thesis, and your thesis sentence.
You do not need to mention in your introduction the article you will use, but
you will mention the article later when you use signal phrases to introduce
quotations from it. Also, please follow
MLA guidelines exactly for both in-text citations and the Works Cited page.
You will need to list both the Viewpoints
essay and the related article’s publication information on your Works Cited
page in proper MLA format. For
help and review, please read and watch the information located at the link Citing
Viewpoints Essays. In addition,
you can find information on how to list your outside article in proper MLA
format in many places, include the
Purdue Owl Citation Chart. Your MLA Works Cited page will list
alphabetically both the Viewpoints essay
and the article(s) you used. There will be no
Writing Groups for this essay, but you are certainly free to ask a classmate
to peer-edit your rough draft. Please note: Since this is the final essay, it should
demonstrate your mastery of the skills we've learned and practiced throughout
the quarter. Because of this, satisfactory grades (70% or higher) will be
awarded only to those essays that demonstrate a mastery of all course
concepts that we've covered. An essay can earn up
to 100 points. One note—once you give the author’s full name in your introduction, refer
to him or her by last name only throughout the rest of your essay. Also,
please remember that the Works Cited page is alphabetized. HOW-TO
VIDEO—Two-Source
Summary-and-Response Student Example More Explanation and Essay #3 Check Sheet Essay
#3 Check Sheet Your essay ____ deals with a new
Viewpoints article ____ includes words
and ideas from the Viewpoints
article ____ also includes
words and ideas from at least one outside source ____ shows clear
evidence of careful editing and revision ____ includes a correct MLA Works
Cited Page listing the publication facts of the outside source(s) you used as
well as those of your Viewpoints
article. The Works Cited Page conforms exactly to MLA requirements ____ Parenthetical citations and signal phrases conform
EXACTLY to MLA guidelines |