Instructor approved argument

There is an essay along with an annotated bibliography that needs to be done for this assignment. The annotated bibliography will be on a separate page from the essay. I didn’t want to split the assignment because you need them both together to complete the assignment. Below are the instructions for the Annotated Bibliography & the ESSAY. There’s also a screenshot of the discussion board explaining how to come up with a topic because I failed at coming up with a reasonable topic.

-Annotated Bibliography

The annotated bibliography is a fairly easy assignment; however, it will take some time and some effort to complete it. The assignment asks you to do four things:
1. You must find at least five sources for your Essay #3 assignment.
2. You must read the five sources and write a paragraph of 50-250 words for each in which you summarize its contents and explain its use for your essay. What is particularly interesting about that source specific to your topic and purpose?
3. You must make a Works Cited page, listing the five sources alphabetically by author’s last name, in proper MLA format.
4. You will take your paragraphs and intersperse them within your Works Cited list, creating an annotated bibliography.

Sources:
You may use books, articles, and web sites that are reliable and respectable. Note that web sites full of student essays and essays for hire, like bigpapers, duenow, doctortext, essaytown, free-essay-guide, cyberessays, netessays, etc. are not reliable sources of information. Your best bet for reliable and respectable essays is a library. You may use any library, and you can access the NSU library from off campus over the Internet. You should look for sources that may actually help you with your Essay #3 assignment.

Format:
Your end product should look like a properly formatted Works Cited page that has a summary paragraph about each source immediately following that source’s citation. It should have one-inch margins, your heading (name, class, my name, date) in the top left corner, double-spaced and typed in Times New Roman font size 12, and have your last name and page number in the top right header. Consider the example below. There is a sample in the “Handouts” folder.

Archibald, Henry. “The Last of the Mohawks and Other Tales Revealed.” MLA Quarterly 61.7 (Spring 2000): 46-89. The Literature Resource Center. Web. 5 Sep. 2009. Archibald’s article is a discussion of common stereotypes of Native Americans in early pioneer stories. Archibald argues that though the stereotypes were not accurate, they were used by white writers in an effort to dehumanize Native Americans to make wars against them easier to fight. This sheds light on the way that culture shapes literature and literature shapes culture, as well.

-ENGL 1020: Essay #3
Chapters 1-5 cover the basics of writing and making arguments. Chapters 6-12 walk you through different approaches to argumentation. Chapters 17-22 cover academic arguments, researching, and documenting your research in MLA format. Use those chapters to help you get through this assignment.
For Essay #3, you will make an argument about an instructor-approved topic of your own choosing based on the argumentative themes from the reader section of the textbook:
• Stereotypes – How Does Popular Culture Stereotype You? (Chapter 23)*
• Food and Culture – How Does What We Eat Define Who We Are? (Chapter 24) *
• Language – How Does Language Influence Our World? (Chapter 25)*
• Privacy – Has the Internet Destroyed Privacy? (Chapter 26)*
• Free Speech – How free Should Campus Speech Be? (Chapter 27)*
* Your topic should take one of these general ideas and make it specific and arguable. In this way, your specific topic might be very different from those argued in the textbook and by your classmates.
Keep in mind that your stance on that topic must meet the following requirements:
• It is an argument (not a statement of fact).
• It is arguable from multiple positions by “thinking” people (must be controversial).
• It is researchable (must be publicly discussed enough to result in useful evidence).
You must have at least five reliable sources (most likely from our Internet-based database services but also from notable online sources and traditional library sources, like books, including articles in our textbook if applicable).

Once again, your argument should take the form of one (or some combination) of the argumentative strategies covered in our textbook, but it will include academic research. Use the chapters, listed below, to guide your writing:
• Fact (Chapter 8)
• Definition (Chapter 9)
• Evaluation (Chapter 10)
• Cause/Effect (Chapter 11)
• Problem/Solution (Chapter 12)
WARNING: There can be a temptation when doing research to simply copy the ideas of others. Keep in mind that your ideas should be the center of your argument, and you should use research to establish the issue, provide alternative positions, and support your own ideas. All research should be quoted and cited correctly according to MLA guidelines.

Here is a breakdown of the assignment:

Topic – Open with instructor approval—if you are having trouble settling on a topic, take a look at the topics in Part 5 of the textbook.

Purpose – Choose ONE of the argumentative strategies and make a researched argument about your topic

Audience – Someone who disagrees with you but is open to change and is interested in the topic

Research – You must have at least five sources cited within your paper and referenced on a correct and complete MLA-style Works Cited page. Be sure to cite all use of information and quote and cite all use of words.

Format – MLA format for style and all quotations, citations, and the Works Cited

Style – Formal and academic (no contractions, first or second person point of view, no slang, etc.)

Length – at least 2000 words