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MIDTERM ESSAY EXAM
Topics:
- The war on terror has contributed to the growing abuse of human rights.
- High school graduates should take a year off before entering college.
- All citizens should be required by law to vote.
- All forms of government welfare should be abolished.
- Both parents should assume equal responsibility in raising a child.
- Americans should have more holidays and longer vacations.
- Participating in team sports helps to develop good character.
- The production and sale of cigarettes should be made illegal.
- People have become overly dependent on technology.
- Censorship is sometimes justified.
- Privacy is not the most important right.
- Drunk drivers should be imprisoned on the first offense.
- The lost art of letter-writing deserves to be revived.
- Government and military personnel should have the right to strike.
- Most study-abroad programs should be renamed “party abroad”: they are a waste of time and money
- The continuing decline of CD sales along with the rapid growth of music downloads signals a new era of innovation in popular music.
- College students should have complete freedom to choose their own courses.
- The solution to the impending crisis in Social Security is the immediate elimination of this government program.
- The primary mission of colleges and universities should be preparing students for the workforce.
- Financial incentives should be offered to high school students who perform well on standardized tests.
Choose ONE of the argumentation topics listed above to use as the topic for your midterm essay exam.
Parenthetical citations and Works Cited are required for the Midterm essay exam. Find a source in your textbook or online and use 1 quotes or 1 summary or 1 precis or 1 statistic in your Midterm essay with accompanying in-text citations in 2016, 8th or 9th edition MLA format and Works Cited citations in 2016, 8th or 9th edition MLA format. College scholars do not use dictionaries nor encyclopedias as research sources.
Narrative examples cannot be used in college essays. Long windups in the intro section of the paper explaining the purpose of the essay will not be accepted.
You are to write a 100 sentences minimum synthesis essay in response to the topic from the list above that you chose to write about and post the essay to Canvas.
our essay must include 3 sections that are equal in length. 1) In about 33 sentences, explain, describe and define a problem associated with the topic your chose, 3 solutions to that problem, and defend one of the solutions as the best solution to the problem and why it is the best solution. 2) In about 33 sentences, compare and contrast showing similarities and difference concerning 2 different aspects of the topic your chose. and 3) In about 33 sentences, you will write a position section to your essay in which you take a stance on an issue connected to the topic that you chose. You might be in favor OR you might be against. You might agree with the topic OR you might disagree with the topic. You must take a side and defend and support your position. Your essay must include a) argument, b) counter-argument (the opposite side of the issue that someone might debate against your stance/argument) and c) rebuttal (knocking down the counter-argument as illogical and re-asserting your position/argument/stance)
Grading Rubric:
Your Midterm and Final exam essays must show improvement from the Writing improvement paragraphs in Modules 1, 2, 3, and 4.
There is a Post Mortem in the Lecture section of Learning Module #2 that explains the improvements that need to be illustrated in the Midterm exam essay. Use this Post Mortem lecture to aid you in writing your Midterm essay exam.
The Midterm essay will be graded using the Post Mortem as the rubric. The Midterm essay exam will be graded A, B, C, D, or F.
The Midterm essay must include all of the following:
A brainstorm in words and phrases only attached to the essay.
An outline in words and phrase only attached to the essay.
The topic of the essay must come from the list of topics provided above.
The essay must contain 3 sections of equal length: problem/solution/best solution and why, compare/contrast, argument/counter-argument/rebuttal.
The essay must be 100 sentences minimum in length (length is NOT as important as all of the other requirements).
At least one figure of speech covered in this class must be marked using bolding or underlining in your essay. “Marked” means use italics or highlighting or underlining or bolding or ALL CAPS — INSIDE the essay. If you mark SV OR FL next to a sentence, be certain it is obvious which sentence you are referring to OR you get no credit.
At least one sentence variety pattern covered in this course must be marked using bolding or underlining in your essay. “Marked” means use italics or highlighting or underlining or bolding or ALL CAPS — INSIDE the essay. If you mark SV OR FL next to a sentence, be certain it is obvious which sentence you are referring to OR you get no credit.
Your essay must be written in 3rd-person, formal, academic tone of voice.
Your essay must include at least one in-text/parenthetical citation in correct 8th or 9th ed MLA format in connection with research included in your paper. Use the tutorials on MLA form in Module 0 of our Canvas class to help you with this.
Your essay must include a Works Cited page at the end of the paper in correct 8th or 9th ed MLA format, listing the research your used in your paper. Use the tutorials on MLA form in Module 0 of our Canvas class to help you with this.
Requirements: No AI
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