Q Essay (noun) /?es?/ A piece of writing that focuses on one main idea ________________________________________ Essay #2 Cause/Effect Essay Approved Topics obesity social media divorce financial fraud hoarding exercising The next step in the writing process is to take your outline and the feedback you received from your instructor about your outline and turn it into an actual essay. As you learned in your e-text reading, an essay is a piece of writing that focuses on one main idea. You will: (1) Revise your outline based on feedback from instructor. (2) Create a Word document and use the outline to write a well-organized, correctly-structured essay. (3) Use the Revision Worksheet to revise your essay. (4) Revise again. Then revise again. (5) Submit the essay to Grammarly for assessment and revise based on results. (6) Submit the final draft of your essay and the Grammarly score to the Unit 5 dropbox for grading. ________________________________________ (1) Open the outline you submitted last week. Revise it, if needed, using your instructor's feedback as a guide. Save the changes and, if you're able, print it out. It's always best to work from a printed copy. (2) Then, create a new MS Word document named E2_YourLastName_YourFirstName. Set up the formatting to match APA standards. To create your essay, take each point in your outline and turn it into one or two complete sentences. Remember to take any feedback provided by your instructor for your outline assignment and apply it to your essay draft (USLO 11.1). Your essay should at least 1000 words long and should follow all conventions of grammar, style, structure, and organization discussed in this course (USLO 11.3). Remember, too, how this paper should be structured. You should have an introductory paragraph that introduces the reader to the topic and ends with a thesis statement (if you need to, review the Creating an Effective Introductory Paragraph (Links to an external site.) in your e-text). Then, your essay should have several body paragraphs, each making one point the directly relates to the thesis statement. Finally, wrap up your paper with a concluding paragraph (if you need to, review Creating an Effective Conclusion for a Multi-Paragraph Essay (Links to an external site.) in your e-text). An extra consideration for this particular essay is the incorporation of outside sources. You selected sources and explore their appropriateness in your Annotative Bibliography assignment. Use those sources in this paper to support your thesis and the points you're making. Remember, as always, to include proper in-text citation and a References page at the end of the document. (3) Once you have a draft of your essay written, save and print it. Using the Revision Worksheet.docx Download Revision Worksheet.docx, revise and edit your paper (a printed copy and colored pens work best here). Then, make the necessary changes in the electronic version. (USLO 11.1, 11.2) (4) Save whatever changes you made in the previous step and print again -- then repeat the process. You want to revise and edit your paper no less than three times, making sure you check every item on the Revision Worksheet against your paper. You want the final draft to be as polished and professional as possible. Of course, multiple revisions require good time management on the part of the writer, so be sure to plan ahead! Also, review the Revising, Editing, and Proofreading (Links to an external site.) chapter in your e-text as you work (USLO 11.1, 11.2). (5) Make sure that the changes from all of your revisions have been saved, then submit the file to Grammarly for review. Download the Grammarly report when you're done making changes in Grammarly; you will submit this report along with the final draft of your paper (note: the Grammarly score will not match your grade for this essay, as Grammarly is only looking for grammar and style issues, and your professor is looking for a much wider range of issues in your writing). You can make changes directly in Grammarly, then download the file back to MS Word with the revisions. The file name will include .edited after you've downloaded it from Grammarly. Watch Grammarly Instructions for Students (Links to an external site.) for instructions on how to do this properly. (6) Once you're sure that the paper is ready to be graded (checking the grading rubric at this point is a great idea), make sure you've saved all your changes and submit it as an attachment here. Also, attach your Grammarly report. (note: the Grammarly score will not match your grade for this essay, as Grammarly is only looking for grammar and style issues, and your professor is looking for a much wider range of issues in your writing). To be clear: Upload both the final draft of your essay and your Grammarly report before submitting the essay for grading. Congratulations on completing your second essay for this course! Rubric Essay 2 Rubric 2021 Essay 2 Rubric 2021 Criteria Ratings Pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeIntroductory Paragraph Required elements: 1. Attention grabber 2. Minimum of 4 sentences 3. Original, clear, and comprehensive thesis statement CSLO 1 threshold: 15.0 pts 15 pts Exceptional. Introductory paragraph contains all required elements and provides excellent context for the rest of the paper. 12 pts Effective. Introductory paragraph provides effective context for the rest of paper and/or contains a problematic thesis statement. 7 pts Developing. Introductory paragraph provides minimal context for the paper and is missing one or more of the required elements. 0 pts Unacceptable. Introductory paragraph does not contain thesis statement OR any of the required elements OR no assignment submitted. 15 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeBody Paragraphs 1. Unified paragraphs,logical transitions 2. Coherent paragraphs support thesis 3. Topic sentences 4. Paragraphs- at least 4 sentences 5. Supporting sentences relate to topic sentence 6. Paragraphs logical,relevant to thesis 7. Sources CSLO 3 threshold: 25.0 pts 25 pts Exceptional. The paper meets and adequately addresses all the criteria (see criteria column). 20 pts Effective. The paper meets and adequately addresses four or five of the criteria (see criteria column). 10 pts Developing. The paper meets and adequately addresses two or three of the criteria (see criteria column). 0 pts Unacceptable. The paper does not adequately address criteria OR no assignment submitted. 25 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle 1. Paragraphs are compelling and creative 2. Sentence structure is widely varied 3. Exceptional use of transitional phrases 4. Academic/elevated/creative word choice 5. Appropriate tone 6. Written in 3rd person only. CSLO 3 threshold: 10.0 pts 10 pts Exceptional. The paper meets and adequately addresses all the criteria (see criteria column). 7 pts Effective. The paper meets and adequately addresses three or four of the criteria (see criteria column). 3 pts Developing. The paper meets and adequately addresses one or two of the criteria (see criteria column). Or use of first and second person. 0 pts Unacceptable. The paper does not adequately address criteria OR no assignment submitted. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeConclusion 1. Thoroughly summarizes the findings associated with the key concepts as outlined by the assignment guidelines 2. Key concepts are summarized 3. No new material is introduced in the conclusion 4. No direct quotes in the conclusion CSLO 1 threshold: 10.0 pts 10 pts Exceptional. The paper meets and adequately addresses all the criteria (see criteria column). 7 pts Effective. The paper meets and adequately addresses three of the criteria (see criteria column). 3 pts Developing. The paper meets and adequately addresses two of the criteria (see criteria column). 0 pts Unacceptable. The paper does not provide a conclusion OR no assignment submitted. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeLength & Originality CSLO 2 threshold: 10.0 pts 10 pts Paper meets required word count. And/or Less than 10% direct quotes. 0 pts Paper is either 20% above or below the required word count. And/or More than 10% direct quotes. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGrammar & Mechanics CSLO 3 threshold: 10.0 pts 10 pts Exceptional. The paper is clearly written with no errors in spelling, grammar, word order, word usage, and punctuation. 7 pts Effective. Fewer than two errors in spelling, grammar, word order, word usage, and punctuation. 3 pts Developing. Three to six errors in spelling, grammar, word order, word usage, punctuation. 0 pts Unacceptable. More than six errors in spelling, grammar, word order, word usage, punctuation. OR No assignment submitted. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAPA Manuscript Format Required elements: 1. Title page 2. Font, page numbers, double spacing, indented paragraphs 3. Use of leveled headings (when appropriate) 4. Reference page CSLO 3 threshold: 10.0 pts 10 pts Exceptional. The paper meets all four of the criteria. 7 pts Effective. The paper meets three of the four criteria. 3 pts Developing. The paper meets fewer than three of the four criteria. 0 pts Unacceptable. The paper does not address any of the APA formatting criteria OR no assignment submitted. 10 pts This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAPA References & In-Text Citation 1. Correctly formatted APA in-text citations- body of paper 2. Correctly formatted references on ref page 3. In-text citations match entries on ref page 4. Ref page correctly formatted CSLO 3 threshold: 10.0 pts 10 pts Exceptional. The paper meets all four of the criteria. 7 pts Effective. The paper meets three of the four criteria. 3 pts Developing. The paper meets fewer than three of the four criteria. 0 pts Unacceptable. The paper does not address any of the APA formatting criteria OR no assignment submitted. 10 pts Total Points: 100 PreviousNext