Q Before your first draft of this essay, watch the "What Not to Do in an Introduction" video below. This video applies to the introductory paragraph of all essays. Read the Betsy DeVos article, “Our nation's Report Card is in, and it's bad. All students need education freedom right now,” by accessing this source. (Links to an external site.) Compose a persuasive essay response (minimum 400 words) that provides and supports an opinion about why our nation's public primary and secondary schools are in trouble. Take a firm stand. Your essay must specifically and separately address the light green, light blue, and yellow highlighted passages in the DeVos article. Neither COVID nor any other pandemic can be a factor in your essay response. CAUTION: Students, this assignment is not intended to be political; it is intended to be societal. If you believe that this topic is political, I challenge you to consider how our primary and secondary schools affect our society (neighborhoods, towns, states). Also review this important source. (Links to an external site.) This essay and most others in this course require a thesis. Before developing a thesis for any essay in this course, read “A Word about the Thesis” by accessing this source. (Links to an external site.) When essay assignments in this course require students to write using first person or third person, this does not mean that you must create a dramatic mood. EH 1302 is not a drama or a creative writing course although some limited creativity is acceptable. There is a caution, however. Do not hypothesize contrary to the content of the reading or the assignment instructions. Avoid assuming facts and details that are not evident in the reading. POINT OF VIEW: Compose this essay using a third-person point of view of the parent of a ninth-grader who attends a local public school. Using this point of view, you are writing about the parent, not as the parent. Provide a given name for that parent in at least three paragraphs of the essay. For help with third-person point of view, see the short video below. NOTE: The language in assignments that require writing from a particular point of view must conform to the “English Composition Checklist.” (Links to an external site.) For example, a dirty rotten scoundrel would probably use some unsavory language filled with inappropriate expletives, but if an English Composition student were writing from the point of view of a dirty rotten scoundrel, the voice must be that of a dirty rotten scoundrel, but the writing (usage, grammar, language mechanics) must be suitable for English Composition 1302 classroom expectations. The use of slang or language other than Standard American English will result in the appropriate usage point deduction. PARAGRAPH REQUIREMENT: The paragraph requirement for Daily Writing essay assignments is introductory paragraph, at least two body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Paragraph divisions provide transition, clarity, and organization to an essay. You have already viewed the “Introductory Paragraph” video, so to view a helpful, short video about composing a concluding paragraph, view the “Concluding Paragraph” videos below. PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT: In journalistic and some other styles of writing, a paragraph can be just about anything that the writer composes as long as it effectively holds the reader’s attention. A paragraph in EH 1301 and EH 1302 must be attention-getting, but more structured, consisting of a topic sentence, at least three supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. QUOTATION REQUIREMENT: When you review the course model essay, notice that there is one short, direct quotation (from research) in the paper. Most of the writing in the paper is created by the student, not quoted from another source. Do not submit essays or a research paper in which a large part is quoted material. I want your writing based on sources provided or sources researched. This assignment requires two direct quotations from the DeVos source. Each quotation must be at least two complete lines of text but not more than four lines of text, placed in separate paragraphs, and must pertain to the content of that paragraph. A quotation may never form its own paragraph; it must relate to the content of the paragraph in which it is included. Quotations for this assignment may not include more than eight lines of text, accumulative. The example quotation provided at this link is not a complete paragraph, only an example quotation with an example in-text citation. (Links to an external site.) IN-TEXT CITATIONS: No matter how many times an author’s name is used in the narrative, an in-text citation must be provided when a quotation by that author is used. Other instructors’ guidance on in-text citations may differ. WORKS CITED PAGE: Most essays and the research paper in this course will require a Works Cited page, which is a part of the whole paper, not a separate document. In the citation of your paper on the Works Cited page, use the online source URL found at the end of the DeVos handout. The other required citation information is included on the DeVos handout. Neither the textbooks, Google Drive, nor Canvas may ever be used as a source in this course. In the Works Cited page of your essay, Daily Writing 1.2, construct the DeVos source as it is constructed below. Do not cite the textbook, Canvas, or Google Drive; and do not use or cite any other source. View the example of the full Devos citation below. Your full citation on the Works Cited page should appear formatted in text (not an image) as above but with the correct access date, correct punctuation, and correct capitalization. No other research is required or assigned in this essay. IMPORTANT: Begin the Works Cited section on the page following the last paragraph of your essay. The page must be titled Works Cited centered at the top of the page, followed by the full citation. The Works Cited page must be numbered. For example, if the last page of the text of your essay is p. 2, then the Works Cited page must begin on p. 3. The Works Cited page is not a separate document. For correct formatting, review the model essay. (Links to an external site.) The Works Cited page counts as 10% or the essay grade but is never included in the word count requirement. Submit this assignment as an attachment no later than the due date. Save this file submission as DW1.2YourLastName (no spaces). .