Symposium presentations
This week you have your first draft due for WP3 due on Friday! The essay will be 3.5-5 pages in length in final draft form. I'd like for y'all to get two-three pages to me this week. Do not worry about your intro and conclusion yet. Unless you happen to have a stellar idea for one of those, they can wait til the second draft. These are the sections of the essay that you can start paragraphing out now:
A thorough explanation of the origins/background of the issue and your community in academia. At least one solid paragraph, maybe two.
A discussion of multiple perspectives (a perspective is how or why your issue exists) on the issue (including your own personal experience and perspective). There should be one paragraph for your own personal experience and perspective. After all, it’s an issue, so there’s bound to be many different views of the problem. These should be multiple paragraphs (3 at least).
A detailed description of current and proposed solutions for the issue. This should be at least one paragraph.
A strong argument in favor of which solution(s) you think are best, with our campus being a focus. This should be at least one paragraph, maybe two. This would be a good place for you to use your personal experience to strengthen your argument for which solution(s) you think are best.
I say two-three pages, so if you're crunched for time this week, two is fine. If you know you'll be crunched for time next week because of the Holiday, please work more on this draft and get me three pages or more. You do not need to worry about proper in-text citations yet, but it would behoove you to at least acknowledge in some way which source (or sources) you are using to construct each paragraph from. Obviously, you did not know all of this information beforehand, so what I would do is read through your sources and figure out which ones will help you write each section/paragraph of the essay (this source gives me background info, this source gives me a perspective, this source gives me solutions). Print the sources out if you need to! Read the sources, underline parts that will help give you the information you need to write the essay, then put the source away and put the author's ideas IN YOUR OWN WORDS. There shouldn't be any direct quotes/copy paste in this draft. Remember back to the first essay where I had y'all paraphrase and summarize? You will be doing that again. It's ok to take your outline and just paragraph out from that and have a half outline/half essay hybrid if that works for you. I will show y'all how to do APA citations next week. Yes, you will have to work on your drafts over Thanksgiving. College life. Lo siento.
I will have these graded and back to you by Monday evening of November 20 so you can work on your second drafts over the holiday. I will go over what needs to be in the second draft THIS COMING FRIDAY and I will also teach you how to do APA in-text citations on Friday. DO NOT MISS CLASS.
Looking ahead: For the second draft, you will need to turn in all the body paragraphs with APA citations with the APA References page for whichever sources you end up using from your WP2. You do not have room for 12 sources in a 5 page paper, so you won't be using all of the sources. Just whichever ones fit the essay best once you start drafting it out. The second draft will be due Nov 27. If you haven't used any extensions, you may on this draft, but keep in mind that the longer you take to get it to me, the longer it takes for me to grade it and get it back to you.