Research Guides: ESL 088WG Argument Essay (Jurkowitz): Assignment Information

Welcome!

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