Due Date: Friday, October 25
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.
NOTE: It may help you to move forward with this assignment by first outlining your Draft 2 of this assignment. If you can explain why that paper is organized the way it is, then you should be able to decide where you can expand on your topic.
Requirements:
1. You MUST copy and paste all of the work from DRAFT 2 into the new DRAFT 3 document in CANVAS. ALL WORK MUST NOW BE DONE ON DRAFT 3. ALSO, DO NOT RESOLVE ANY OF THE COMMENTS I HAVE LEFT FOR YOU ON THE FIRST DRAFT!
2. You MUST watch this video about in-text citations.
3. Adhere to all requirements from DRAFT 1 and DRAFT 2 with the exception of the new requirement that your essay must be at least nine (9) 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.
4. You must have 15 appropriate sources (In-text citations and reference page citations must be in GREEN FONT) properly incorporated into your paper. six (6) 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.
5. Your essay must include a discussion of Pleasantville and how it relates to your thesis. This discussion should be in pink font. See the Purdue OWL for more information on how to properly cite a film.
6. Use this webpage to properly format your paper and citations.
7. You MUST draft this paper in the Google doc provided in Canvas. Papers without a "revision history" will not be counted for credit.
Evaluation:
Once you have completed this draft, you need to submit your essay in Canvas.
NOTE: 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.