Lecture for Weeks 14 and 15

This week’s goals are to:

Refine your thesis statement for your final research paper
Support your argument for your final paper
Produce a draft of your research paper
Revise, edit, and proofread the final paper
Review your TurnItIn.com report and make any necessary changes to your final paper

Your final paper will bring all of your research together, and it will be written in an objective, academic style. For the Multiple Source Analysis Project, you were writing about your what you discovered from your sources in first-person point of view.

Your research paper, however, will be different. Review the models in the “Sample Papers” folder and in your text.

Take an objective point of view and picture yourself as a scholarly researcher who is both informing your audience and trying to persuade your audience that your position is worthy of consideration. Review the links on the Research Writing page on writing arguments.

The final paper will be written primarily in third person point of view. Do not use “you” in this paper, and keep first-person point of view to a minimum, if you use it at all. Also, do not use contractions in academic writing. Review the section in your text on writing an academic paper title, as this is also essential for the final paper.

Use your sentence outline to structure your paper and see what order you need to use to present information, and follow Chs.10 through 13 in your text as you put the paper together.

Submit your final paper at least 24 to 36 hours before it is due. Check back to review your Turnitin.com report, and make any necessary changes to any citation errors.

Our class will wrap up at the end of Week 15 with the submission of your final paper. Your paper is due before finals week so that you will have time to work on your final exams in your other classes. We will not have a final exam in this class.