"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

~ Henry Adams

English 99

Final Essay

As a final project for the course, you are to write your own personal essay to be modeled after the essays in the course text:

1. While the essay is to be modeled after the essays in the course text, be careful to adapt your writing to audience, context, and purpose. The essay is to be reflective and personal to the point of college classroom appropriateness, not a confession or “diary” entry. Know your audience (your classmates and me) and disclose appropriately.

2. You must reference at least one of the essays from the course text in your own story. Example: “I can relate to Issa Rae’s fear of Ramadan because…”

3. Length: at least three pages and no more than five pages.

4. You must use the MLA format. Here is an example:

Your Name

Instructor Nancy Nelson

English 99

Date (you must write the date as either March 1, 2021 or 1 March 2021)

Title

Indent first sentence of each paragraph (approximately ½ inch; use the tab key). Double or 1 ½ space: Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing…

Double space between paragraphs

Indent first sentence of each paragraph (approximately ½ inch; use the tab key). Double or 1 ½ space: Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing…

Double space between paragraphs

Indent first sentence of each paragraph (approximately ½ inch; use the tab key). Double or 1 ½ space: Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing Awesome writing…

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Please keep in mind the course learning objectives (also listed in the syllabus) while writing your essay:

1. Read college-level texts closely to understand their explicit ideas and to draw logical inferences, summarize texts, and integrate appropriate textual evidence when writing and speaking.

2. Respond to a text’s themes, claims, support, and rhetorical strategies both analytically and with reference to evidence gathered from outside the text.

3. Write papers that develop original arguments by supporting claims with evidence, arranging ideas logically, and connecting them coherently.

4. Apply rhetorical strategies in one’s own writing by adapting writing to audience, context, and purpose.

5. Demonstrate the writing process by exploring and applying various strategies for gathering evidence, generating ideas, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.

6. Use appropriate technology to produce and publish writing.

7. Use MLA format at a beginning college level, avoiding plagiarism.

8. Demonstrate command of a variety of sentence types, with a particular focus on sentence clarity and rhetorical strategies.

9. Read and write using academic vocabulary.

10. Analyze the impact of word choice on meaning and tone.

11. Collaborate effectively with diverse partners in discussions, activities, and/or projects.

12. Contribute actively through expressing ideas clearly and listening and responding appropriately to others’ ideas.