Due Date: Thursday, September 5
If you decide not to complete this draft by the date listed above, your final score on the paper will be reduced by 3 points.
Assignment:
This assignment is an opportunity to write a research-based narrative essay in which you will define, explore, explain, and complicate your relationship with freedom. It is an on-going assignment with multiple due dates.
To help you brainstorm what you may write about, you may want to consider the following questions:
Who are you?
Where do you come from?
Why are you here?
Why are you the way you are?
Why do you think, hope, worship, dream, feel the way you do?
Are the same as everyone else in school, in your family, in your culture, in your community?
Should people be the same as everyone else or different?
What is next for you?
What is control?
Who controls you?
Who do you control?
Who writes the rules?
Why do we have rules/laws/standards/beliefs?
NOTE: Answering these questions in your essay is not necessarily required.
Requirements:
1. You are to write about your experiences and relationship with the idea of freedom.
2. Your writing must be engaging and germane.
3. You essay must be both personal and universal.
4. Your essay should argue a point while considering the possible multiple points which conflict with that point.
5. You must strive to extend your understanding of freedom into the future while basing it on your understanding of freedom in the past.
6. You must highlight your thesis in YELLOW.
7. Your essay must be at least three (3) pages and one (1) line long and follow APA formatting and style guidelines.
This requirement is for the essay portion of your assignment only.
This page requirement does NOT include your title page or reference page, which are required elements of the assignment.
For this draft, you are NOT required to have an abstract, but you are ALWAYS required to have an updated title page and reference page.
See SAMPLE PAPER HERE.
8. Draft your essay in your Composition Notebook FIRST. Aim for three full hand-written page. All handwritten work in your Composition Notebook must clearly labeled (FREEDOM, DRAFT NUMBER, DATE)
Type your handwritten essay out on the Google Doc provided in the CANVAS assignment.
Drafts from your Composition Notebook MUST be typed onto the Google doc provided by me in Canvas.
Once you are finished typing out what you wrote in your Composition Notebook EXACTLY, go to the "Revision History" in the Google Doc and name the "version" of the identical draft: "Draft 1"
You can then revise and/or amend the essay.
If when you transfer your handwritten essay to the Google Doc, you do not have 3 full pages plus one line, you can then add to your essay so it is long enough.
9. You must have five (5) appropriate sources (In-text citations and reference page citations must be in GREEN FONT) properly incorporated into your paper. Two (2) of these sources (In-text citations and reference page citations must be in BLUE FONT) must be from:
websites ending with .edu or .gov (Check out Google Scholar for more!)
These sources must be listed with proper in-text citations and in a proper Reference Page.
See the Purdue OWL for more information and this webpage for help in formatting your reference page correctly.
For URLs that are an entire line or more, use this website to shorted the URL instead.
You may NOT use any Block or Long Quotes (quotes of more than 39 words) for this essay.
If your source is from a news media website, it must be appropriate. Use this chart to determine your news media source is appropriate. Only media sources from the top three rows may be used and their location on the left/right spectrum should be incorporated into your introduction of the source.
10. Use this webpage to properly format your paper and citations.
11. You MUST draft this paper in the Google doc provided in Canvas. Papers without a "revision history" will not be counted for credit.
12. Failure to complete any one of these requirements in your draft will mean that the draft is not finished and, therefore, it will receive a zero.
13. REMINDER: All essays MUST include an introduction and a conclusion.
Evaluation:
Once you have completed this draft, you need to submit your essay in Canvas and make an appointment with me to discuss your draft.