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Assignment: Researched Argument Planning Purpose: Pre-writing is an invaluable planning tool to help organize and deliver information logically. Assignment: this assignment, you should have already chosen a controversial topic and completed significant research that has helped you produce an annotated bibliography. To plan your Oral Presentation and your Researched Argument Essay:
Question:
1. Choose either the provided Essay Planning Sheet or the Outline Template plan for a focused on your chosen controversial topic in which you support your claim with analysis and synthesis of the 3 sources selected for your Annotated Bibliography.
2. Copy your thesis statement from your Annotated Bibliography onto your planning document. 3. Identify supporting points that will guide each section of your argument and write topic sentences that connect to your thesis statement.
4. Find a quote or other useful information for each supporting topic from the sources on your Annotated Bibliography that will serve as evidence for each supporting topic. Include an in-text citation according to MLA guidelines. Your plan must include evidence from the 3 sources selected for your Annotated Bibliography.
5. Evaluate the supporting topics and evidence and rearrange your topic order as needed.
6. Add conclusion statement.
7. Create your works cited list.
8. Submit the completed Essay Planning Sheet or Outline Template. Grading: This assignment will be graded on the
• Originality and thoughtfulness of your thesis statement and supporting topics.
• Logical organization of your supporting topics.
• Relevance of supporting quotes or information.
• Accurate in-text citations formatted according to citation guidelines.
• Professional presentation of content with respect to spelling, grammar, and punctuation. The Researched Argument Planning requires students to
• Evaluate information from multiple sources.
• Develop an arguable thesis statement that presents a claim.
• Support the claim with evidence from scholarly resources found in IRSC Libraries' databases.
• Draft original, organized work, act on productive feedback, revise, and edit.
• Adapt communication for tone, purpose, audience, and situation.
• Use essential Standard American English conventions-including appropriate sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation-and formal, academic composition style.
• source citation.