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5F: Final Draft

Complete your final draft of your Cause and Effect Paper by revising and editing your first draft (5D). Your final draft should present a compelling argument clearly stated in a complete thesis statement, include a complete introduction, at least three support paragraphs, and a complete conclusion, should be well-organized and supported, should include plenty of thoughtful analysis and concrete support details and should follow all of the expectations of the course rubric.

The final draft should be a two page assignment (Times New Roman 12 point font) and should include your name, date, etc., as you would on any other assignment.

Assignments 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, and 5E should be submitted by the listed due date (see Course Schedule announcement). Make sure everything is clearly labelled and organized to put yourself in the best position for success! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Submission Instructions: Check your Course Schedule announcement for deadlines and due dates. All assignments are due on Canvas by the start of class time on the due date. Make sure to use only .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file extensions. Make sure to submit assignments 5A-5E and 5F into separate dropboxes. If you experience any technological issues, please submit your assignments in emails to me as attachments before the deadline for submission.5F: Final Draft

Complete your final draft of your Cause and Effect Paper by revising and editing your first draft (5D). Your final draft should present a compelling argument clearly stated in a complete thesis statement, include a complete introduction, at least three support paragraphs, and a complete conclusion, should be well-organized and supported, should include plenty of thoughtful analysis and concrete support details and should follow all of the expectations of the course rubric.

The final draft should be a two page assignment (Times New Roman 12 point font) and should include your name, date, etc., as you would on any other assignment.

Assignments 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, and 5E should be submitted by the listed due date (see Course Schedule announcement). Make sure everything is clearly labelled and organized to put yourself in the best position for success! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Submission Instructions: Check your Course Schedule announcement for deadlines and due dates. All assignments are due on Canvas by the start of class time on the due date. Make sure to use only .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file extensions. Make sure to submit assignments 5A-5E and 5F into separate dropboxes. If you experience any technological issues, please submit your assignments in emails to me as attachments before the deadline for submission.5F: Final Draft

Complete your final draft of your Cause and Effect Paper by revising and editing your first draft (5D). Your final draft should present a compelling argument clearly stated in a complete thesis statement, include a complete introduction, at least three support paragraphs, and a complete conclusion, should be well-organized and supported, should include plenty of thoughtful analysis and concrete support details and should follow all of the expectations of the course rubric.

The final draft should be a two page assignment (Times New Roman 12 point font) and should include your name, date, etc., as you would on any other assignment.

Assignments 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, and 5E should be submitted by the listed due date (see Course Schedule announcement). Make sure everything is clearly labelled and organized to put yourself in the best position for success! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Submission Instructions: Check your Course Schedule announcement for deadlines and due dates. All assignments are due on Canvas by the start of class time on the due date. Make sure to use only .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file extensions. Make sure to submit assignments 5A-5E and 5F into separate dropboxes. If you experience any technological issues, please submit your assignments in emails to me as attachments before the deadline for submission.Your assignment, if you choose to accept it (and you’d better, it’s worth 15% of your grade!) is to write a fully fleshed out Cause and Effect paper (5F) where you examine an event, situation, or idea for its causes or its effects. What brought about the event or issue? What consequences resulted from it? Consider the following sample topics:

1. What causes credit card debt?
2. What causes racism or sexism to remain issues in a society that largely accepts them as wrong?
3. What are the effects of illegal immigration on a national economy?
4. What are the developmental effects growing up with the Internet at your fingertips?
5. What are the effects of entrenched tribalism in American politics (i.e. red state/blue state mentality)?

Your essay should contain a thesis statement that gives me an idea of how you will back this point up and how your support will be organized throughout. It should also fulfill the other requirements of your rubric.

This paper should include cited quotes or paraphrases from at least three credible sources to support your thesis.

1200 words (three pages double spaced 12 point font). Please include your name, a title, the date, and your class hour at the top, as well as page numbers throughout.

Nick Pincumbe

EN 1101 Cause and Effect Paper

Assignment 5A: Pre-Writing

Your first assignment in the creation of your Cause and Effect Paper (5F) is to do a Pre-Writing exercise (5A). For this exercise you can choose one type of Pre-Writing, such as:

Asking questions

Listing

Brainstorming

Freewriting

Clustering

Bubbling

Informal Outlining

At the top of the first page of your assignment, list the type of Pre-Writing you chose to use from this list.

Choose an appropriate topic for the Cause and Effect paper (listed on the first page of this prompt) and write out one of the above Pre-Writing activities on that topic.

Your Pre-Writing activity should be at least one full page in length.

At the bottom of the last page of your assignment, write down a one sentence description of your narrowed topic for this paper.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Nick Pincumbe

EN 1101 Cause and Effect Paper

Assignment 5B: Thesis Statement

Your second assignment in the creation of your Cause and Effect Paper (5F) is to create your thesis statement (5B). For this exercise you should use this sheet as your guide and create a printed one page assignment that identifies your TOPIC, your STANCE on that topic, and three SUPPORT POINTS that you will use to back up that stance in your paper. Please include your name, date, etc., as you would on any other assignment and bring three hard copies to workshop (see Course Schedule announcement for dates).

Thesis Statement Breakdown

Topic:

Stance:

First support point:

Second support point:

Third support point:

Sample Layout

(1)_____________is (2) caused by a combination of (3)___________, (4)____________, and

(5)______________.

(1)_____________has (2) many important effects, including (3)___________, (4)____________,

and (5)______________.

Nick Pincumbe

EN 1101 Cause and Effect Paper

Assignment 5C: Outline

Your third assignment in the creation of your Cause and Effect Paper (5F) is to take your thesis statement (5B) and expand it into an outline (5C). For this exercise you should use this handout as your guide and create a printed two-to-three page assignment that outlines a five paragraph structure for your essay based on an introduction, three support paragraphs, and a conclusion. Per our discussion in class, the three support points from your thesis should be the basis for your three support paragraphs.

Since you’ll be including source material for this paper, you can record key quotes or paraphrases (and their in-text citations) as examples where appropriate. Make sure to include your explanation or analysis of the source material you choose to use.

Please include your name, date, etc., as you would on any other assignment and bring one hard copy to your Conference (see Course Schedule announcement for dates).

See the next two pages for a helpful breakdown of how to assemble a complete outline. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Outline Breakdown

Introduction

Hook___________________________________________________________________

Background______________________________________________________________

Point 1) _________________________________________________________________

Point 2) _________________________________________________________________

Point 3) _________________________________________________________________

Thesis __________________________________________________________________

Support One

Topic Sentence ___________________________________________________________

Example or Citation 1a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 1b)__________________________________________________

Example or Citation 2a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 2b)__________________________________________________

Example or Citation 3a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 3b)__________________________________________________

Explanation (relates back to thesis) ___________________________________________

Transition _______________________________________________________________

Support Two

Topic Sentence ___________________________________________________________

Example or Citation 1a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 1b)__________________________________________________

Example or Citation 2a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 2b)__________________________________________________

Example or Citation 3a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 3b)__________________________________________________

Explanation (relates back to thesis) ___________________________________________

Transition _______________________________________________________________

Support Three

Topic Sentence ___________________________________________________________

Example or Citation 1a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 1b)__________________________________________________

Example or Citation 2a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 2b)__________________________________________________

Example or Citation 3a)____________________________________________________

Analysis/Explanation 3b)__________________________________________________

Explanation (relates back to thesis) _________________________________________

Conclusion

Restated Thesis __________________________________________________________

Recap Point 1) ___________________________________________________________

Recap Point 2) ___________________________________________________________

Recap Point 3) ___________________________________________________________

Take Home _____________________________________________________________

Nick Pincumbe

EN 1101 Cause and Effect Paper

Assignment 5D: First Draft

Your fourth assignment in the creation of your Cause and Effect Paper (5F) is to take your outline (5C) and expand it into a full draft of your paper (5D). For this exercise you should use this handout as your guide and create a printed one-to-two page assignment that follows the five paragraph structure of your outline, but is fleshed out into complete sentences, and includes a clear introduction, support paragraphs, concrete examples, and a complete conclusion. Per our discussion in class, the three support points from your thesis should be the basis for your three support paragraphs. Please include your name, date, etc., as you would on any other assignment and bring three hard copies to workshop (see Course Schedule announcement for dates).

Remember, this paper should include at least three properly cited, credible sources to support your thesis, as well as sufficient analysis and concrete examples.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

EN 1101 Cause and Effect Paper

Assignment 5E: Revision Exercise Assignment 5F: Final Draft

Your fifth and sixth assignments in the creation of your Cause and Effect Paper (5F) are to take your first draft (5D), to do a revision exercise on it (5E), and then to fully revise and edit your first draft to create a final draft (5F) for submission in class.

5E: Revision and Editing Exercise

For this exercise you should review (look again) at your first draft and type full sentence answers to the following prompts:

1. What part of your paper, if any, can use expansion and what specific information can you add there to make it stronger?
2. What part of your paper, if any, gets off topic, and what can you remove to help?
3. Is your organization strong? If so, what makes it strong? If not, or if it could use improvement still, what can you move or substitute to help? Consider creating a reverse outline to help.
4. How credible are the sources you used? How do you know?
5. Examine your paper’s tone. Is it too informal or conversational? If so, what can change?
6. Do you have any word choice errors that spellcheck wouldn’t find?
7. Do you have any coma-splice errors, run ons, or sentence fragments?
8. Do you have any fluffy word choices?
9. Are all of your sources properly documented in MLA style?
10. What is one specific step you can take to improve your paper before submitting it?

Only one copy of Assignment 5E is needed. It should be submitted along with 5A, 5B, 5C, and 5D when you turn in 5F.

5F: Final Draft

Complete your final draft of your Cause and Effect Paper by revising and editing your first draft (5D). Your final draft should present a compelling argument clearly stated in a complete thesis statement, include a complete introduction, at least three support paragraphs, and a complete conclusion, should be well-organized and supported, should include plenty of thoughtful analysis and concrete support details and should follow all of the expectations of the course rubric.

The final draft should be a two page assignment (Times New Roman 12 point font) and should include your name, date, etc., as you would on any other assignment.

Assignments 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, and 5E should be submitted by the listed due date (see Course Schedule announcement). Make sure everything is clearly labelled and organized to put yourself in the best position for success! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Submission Instructions: Check your Course Schedule announcement for deadlines and due dates. All assignments are due on Canvas by the start of class time on the due date. Make sure to use only .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file extensions. Make sure to submit assignments 5A-5E and 5F into separate dropboxes. If you experience any technological issues, please submit your assignments in emails to me as attachments before the deadline for submission.