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ESL 088WG Argument Essay (Jurkowitz): Assignment Information

A guide for completing this research assignment

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This guide will help you do the following:

  • Choose a topic for your research paper
  • Find sources for
    • background information on the topic
    • arguments to support your thesis
    • counterarguments to your thesis for you to rebut
  • Email the full text of these sources to yourself.
  • Get MLA style citations for the sources you cite.
  • Get help from a librarian, in person, or anytime online.

Argument Essay Research Worksheet

Here's a link to the worksheet for organizing your assignment: 

(To be able to fill it out in Google Docs, go to "File" and then "Make a Copy" to make your own copy of the outline.) 

 

Argument Essay Assignment

Here's a link to your assignment as a reminder.

For this assignment you will:

  • Choose a controversial issue to write about

  • Use Points of View Reference Center to research your topic 

Topic List

List of topics

Choose a topic from this list. Its link will take you to the database.

Sample Paper

Here is a sample you can use to get an idea of what the formatting and research will look like in your final paper.

Here is the same sample paper, but the borrowed sections have been highlighted and the "machinery" of the in-text citations have been highlighted

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