Category: Writing

critical Essay
A critical essay may be about a book, a work of art, a film or another subject. The point of the
essay is to challenge your ability to analyze something and present well-researched evidence.
Introduction:
This can include background information and interesting facts or trivia regarding the play. State
the thesis and the play you have chosen and state which you believe the overriding them to be.
Body of the essay:
This should be divided into paragraphs which builds an argument using evidence from the play.
Evaluate the text to see how it validates your thesis.
Explain how the themes, characters, plot and structure provide evidence for the theme you
think is most dominant.
Your thesis must be supported by plenty of quotes and evidence from the text.
Each paragraph in the body of the essay should include a point of analysis, a quote to support
your point and then an explanation of how the quote supports your point.
Make sure to introduce the quotes and fully explain their significance.
Conclusion:
Demonstrate the discussion of several analytical points in the essay and how they have related
back to the thesis.
Summarize the key points in the essay.
Highlight how the thesis has been addressed through the analysis within the essay.
**choose any play…

7-8 PAGES with work cited page in MLA format
Put your work together. Basically, tell the story of your experience. If you like, you can organize it through the steps below (it’s OK to organize it how you like–see the student samples for ideas). What did you know about your site/community, going in? What did you expect to find? What was your methodology? In other words, what was your process for gathering information? How did you make observations? Tell your story here. What did you notice? You can mix in interviews and photographs here, too, if you desire.
What community norms did you witness? What were key themes you pulled out? Did anything surprise you?
What do experts say about this site? Use your secondary research (library sources, Internet finds, etc.) in this part. What do you conclude about the site you chose to observe? Was there anything you expected to see but did not? What does a reader need to know to understand your work better? Your conclusion may include any combination of these:
Final, wrap-up thoughts.
Limitations: What you were unable to accomplish because of the short time spent, the rather casual nature of the assignment (compared to long-term ethnographies), the lack of research on this topic, or maybe something else. What would more time accomplish for anyone wanting to take on such work in the future?
Recommendations: These might be for the community, the site, policy-makers, or future researchers. I’d Put anything you have cited on your Works Cited page, in MLA format (APA format is fine, too, if you prefer). Is everything you have quoted from or referred to on this page?

Requirements:
A minimum of three (3) complete pages, properly formatted, which is approximately 1,000 effective words
ONE AND ONLY ONE SECONDARY SOURCE, CHOSEN FROM Two News Periodical Choices for Ethical Argument Essay.
Include a separate Works Cited page (does not count in page count)
MLA Format: double-spaced paragraphs; 12-point Times New Roman font
Include basic MLA in-text citation: signal phrases, quotation marks, parenthetical citation
Single space header on left side:
Student name
English 1010
Ethical Argument
Creative, Individual Title (Centered)
Essay Topic/Purpose: 
Craft an ethical argument that addresses a socially-relevant contemporary issue that is happening within your chosen career field/field of study from Field of Study Summary. Your argument claims, reasoning, and examples must involve principles and/or consequences as they relate to the issue in your field. Frame your argument as being relevant today by using one and only one newspaper/magazine periodical from one of these two news periodicals:
1. AP News: https://apnews.com   or: 2. Al Jazeera News: https://www.aljazeera.com
Your source article must address the ethical topic as it is happening in your field. However, the type of article can be informative (a report), argumentative (a journalist’s own view of the topic based their research/evidence, or on an opinion editorial/op-ed by an expert on the topic). 
Support your position by using evidence from the source and, perhaps, by addressing any of the author’s position in relationship to your own arguments. In other words, your argument is the thesis and topic sentences, and you are to use the source author’s arguments as support of your own views or to provide support for your addressing the counterargument. It should go without stating, but you should use your source to introduce the issue and frame your own arguments in the opening paragraph.
Critical Thinking on Essay Topic (Brainstorm/pre-writing activities):
To help choose your socially relevant issue, you may brainstorm ideas based on the following questions:
What kinds of ethical issues are happening right now? In the last five years? That you believe are the future?
Explore the two websites and their different categories:
Headlines/front pages
Subject matter: the AP News has a horizontal bar that breaks down the news by subject matter, such as Politics, Business, Science, Tech(nology), and more. Look in the categories that your Field of Study relates to.
Globally: Al Jazeera’s front page focuses on global stories, but they also have the same kind of horizontal navigation bar at the top of the front page to help you find subject matters.
To address the larger ethical problem as it relates to your field of study:
What does this ethical issue have to do with my major/discipline? 
Where do I see the content in my field echoing the content in this issue? 
For instance, what kinds of concerns would a nurse at a hospital have with immigration issues regarding providing care? Or: how does a criminal justice major see mental health issues entering into their possible future job as a lawyer, legislator, United Nations employee, or a law officers (of course, the perspective is different for each)?

Instructions
WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT
Research the seven (7) primary human resource management
(HRM) functions most 
associated with today’s organizations. In a PowerPoint
Presentation, explain each function in your own words, to include a concise
section that highlights the federal statutes, 
regulations, and guidance that
HR professionals must know to keep their organizations legally compliant.
Once done, expand the narrative on this information in the Notes section.
Assignment instructions: Submit a 15 – 18
PowerPoint slide presentation. The PowerPoint 
must include speaker notes
displaying what would be said during the presentation. Use a
minimum of
three to five references, with at least one citation for each reference in APA 
style format required. Be sure to include a cover slide and
wrap your presentation up 
with a closing slide and a slide of the references
utilized in your research.
In order to minimize
lengthy wording on the slides, students will be graded on their use of 
the
Notes section of the slides in formulating the narrative portion of the
presentation. This
approach will allow the use of bullet points on the slides
but demonstrate the depth and 
scope of the research conducted in the Notes
section. A
minimum of 75 words in the 
Notes Section for each content slide is required for
full credit for this assignment.

We know that public speaking is informed, but how do we take the steps to inform? We do it with research. Where are some ways researchciting goes well? Or wrong?
What is the ethical responsibility to finding and sourcing material?
On page 136 in your textbook, it outlines some examples on how to attempt to answer this question. In a short answer essay (1-2 pages). Answer the question:
1. How do you find and source reliable and vetted sources? Please provide and example from your everyday experience that might illustrate how this would help.
We know that public speaking is informed, but how do we take the steps to inform? We do it with research. Where are some ways researchciting goes well? Or wrong?

You will write a Research Paper on safety measures and perceptions discrepancies within the
NYCT subway system.
I have provided the following in a Word document: (1) the research topic; (2) the  research question and/or hypothesis; (3) the data you will use; and (4) how you plan to analyze the data. These preliminary submissions are required to
ensure that you are on target for completing a good final paper . 
You will use the word document attcahed to write the Research paper in 8 pages. The Sources are provided as well.

Now that you have completed your revision plan and turned it in, revise your paper, using the plan as a guide.
Once you are done with your revisions, you will write a 2-3 page essay (MLA documentation and formatting) discussing first your revision plan and how you revised your work, noting any difficulties or questions that you had about your process.This should be at least 250 words or one page of writing.
The content of this 2-3 page essay will be as follows:
An assessment of your academic writing so far, starting with your initial goals as a freshman and how you accomplished those goals (or discuss how you are still working to improve on those uncompleted goals).
2.  A summary of what you did for your revision of your first or second paper.
3. A section on how you plan to continue to improve your writing and what kinds of writing you think you may encounter in college and later, in your chosen career. Make sure to have specific examples.
Once you are finished, upload your revised paper and your 2-3 page assessment together.
You can upload them as one file, but make sure to differentiate between these documents in some way, like a topic heading, for example, so that I can tell what is your revised paper and what is the assessment.
Your revised paper will be used as a new grade (and I will choose the higher grade) for your first or second paper.

Create a thesis and cla,, analyze and interprete rhetorical strategy-logos, pathos and ethos. Prove your claim with evidence-you cite and quote..all in apa format!

For this assignment, you’ll undertake a research project that emerges from your Argumentative Essay. The project culminates in a research paper of at least 1500 words, which MUST include proper citations and a works cited page in MLA format.  You have had access to a sample paper for formatting purposes since Module 1.
You will use your response (agreement/disagreement) to the text you chose for your argumentative essay as a starting point for your own argument about some aspect about the topic – a question within the topic you feel the text leaves unexplored or unanswered (or just not answered satisfactorily).  So, for example, you might point out a perspective or question the text problematically leaves unexplored, and your paper would then try to fill in that gap by making a case for its significance.  To make your argument, you will synthesize scholarly secondary sources – bring various secondary sources into conversation with one another so that each one fills in a part of the puzzle as you piece together the answer to your central question.
Not all of the sources you find will be useful, so you’ll undergo a process of evaluating each and restarting your search as needed. Once you’ve settled on a few sources, you’ll analyze them, engage them critically, annotate them, and put them into conversation with each other. After all this searching and note-taking and questioning and rethinking your ideas, you’ll be ready to compose a draft of your research essay.
The task may sound daunting, which is why we’re doing this in steps. You’ve already done the first part of the work by having spent time thinking and writing about the text to which you’ve responded.  This will help give you direction in terms of the kinds of sources to look for.  As we move forward, you will submit a list of potential sources and an annotated bibliography. You are required to use at least four scholarly secondary sources in the final draft of your research paper. More specifically, the four scholarly secondary sources must be scholarly journal articles.

What Is It?
• A short, timed, ungraded writing assessment: No points based on writing skill because you have not yet benefitted from instruction. You will receive points for completion.
• Administered to students on the first day or during the first week of classes.
• Designed to give the writing professor a sense of what students can do upon entering the classroom.
• Helps “diagnose” any areas of concern.
• Provides feedback and allows for interventions to improve student performance.
Instructions
Choose one of the topics (prompts) below and draft the best essay that you can in the time allowed. You should finish the essay in no more than 1.5 hours. Your goal is to produce a well-organized, well-supported, grammatically, mechanically, and stylistically correct essay that utilizes all that you know about writing and the writing process.
Please submit all drafts; type your name, and section number on all pages.
Approximate Length: 500 words.
Writing Prompts (Choose One)
1. What Are You Good At (doing)? Identify and discuss ONE thing you are good at doing. HOW did you get good at doing that one thing (the process), and how might you apply that process of “getting good” to being a student in this class and/or in college?
That “one thing” can be anything–acting, writing, hair and makeup, cooking, sports, listening, math, or taking care of animals.
2. College Ready? What does it mean to be “college ready”? Do you think you are ready for college? If so, how? If not, what might you be able to do now that you are here? What are you prepared to do that will help you succeed in ENG 101? In college?
3. Three Words: Choose three (3) words that best describe you as a writer. Think about how you feel about writing, your strengths as a writer, what you experience (emotionally and mentally) as you write, your performance in writing academically, and/or what worries/concerns you have about writing in general.
4. VUU (QEP) Motto: Virginia Union’s Quality Enhancement Plan motto is “Tomorrow Starts Today.” What does this mean to you? How do going to college–and doing well–fit into your definition? Feel free to include ways that this class can help prepare you for tomorrow.