Deadline Draft 1 Assignment Focus: 100 Points possible
Taking a Position / Making a Significant Point / Remaining Focused / Joining the Academic Discourse Community / Grammatical Mechanics
Assignment Topic:For your first Paper you will write a 4-5 page essay in which you take, develop, and support a significant position
on any arguable issue related to college education or education in general. From your own experience and from the readingsconsider the
issues that exist in college education as well as education in general.
Specifications:
• Typed, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins
• 4-5 pages (around 1,250 words)
• MLA style – no cover page, but a header at top of first page (name, class, date, assignment) and your last name and page number
at the top right of each page
• Submit on the due date all drafts and journal assignments in a folder
• Submit final draft on time to Turnitin.com and Dropbox on Angel (I will not grade your deadline draft until you have submitted
it in all locations)
• No late work/paper will be accepted after one week.
• You can refer to your Pocket Style Manual Seventh Edition on pages 167-173 for help with MLA format.
Drafting: Please keep all prewriting and drafting assignments. This includes the peer review forms your peers will complete during our
workshops. You will turn these in with your journal assignments when you turn in the deadline draft.
Argument Techniques:
• Remember that a claim must be a point that can be argued; it cannot be merely a statement of fact. Take your claim and support
it with evidence from your experience, your friends’ experiences, the essays, etc. Also, remember the importance of observing
everything, not just what we want to see (or hear or know). We form immediate opinions based off of these initial observations. If we
allow ourselves to remain open to new information, we may gradually add to these initial impressions and sometimes even to change them.
Understanding that will help you to understand the importance of giving a full picture when writing an argument and of trying to
convince an audience to “view” something from the same point of view that you do. It requires you to consider counter arguments, how to
refute them, and even maybe concessions you might make to show your audience that you are reasonable.
• Each paragraph should help to support your main claim/thesis. The elements a paragraph should have include: T – Topic sentence
clearly stating the main point of the paragraph; E – Evidence that supports that minor claim (examples, facts, stories, etc.); A –
Analyze how this evidence helps to support the minor claim; R – Refer or relate this claim to your main claim/thesis.
Purpose: Be sure that your audience will recognize the importance of your argument and understand why you are making it. That means you
will need to know it yourself. Why is this argument important to you?
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