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OverviewFor the final research project, you will write a research paper based on your response to the scholarly debate on whether rhetoric is declining over time using your knowledge of rhetoric and design in the modern world throughout the course. Your thesis will identify your stance clearly on this issue. You will use a rhetoric and design theorist to support your own original claims. Explain whether architectonic ideals can identify whether the design theory of modern rhetoric and design theorist can be shown effectively to improve modern business, industry, or technology to solve the debate. The research paper should include at least four sources with at least six to seven paragraphs. Read the rubric’s guidelines thoroughly and utilize JSCC’s library’s databases for peer reviewed journals, online books, and online articles. You will want to find proponents of your stance, or those that agree with your point of view, and scholars or critics that disagree with your view to refute in order to prove your point of view. Remember that the art of persuasion focuses on an unbiased argument, as you are trying to convince your reader of taking your stance, despite the resolve to prove your own point of view by acknowledging opposing views. You may concede with a source by indicating where you agree and disagree with the source and state why. The goal is for you, as a scholar, to contribute to scholarship with your own original, specific thesis statement, claims, as well as evidence after connecting similarities among sources and contrasting views in source materials.*This assignment is a portfolio. Include the final copy of the research paper, any drafts, outlines, and all sources that can be documented should be attached to the assignment.Overall Structure:A. An introduction that maps out the context and main points discussed in the body paragraphs proving the thesis. There is a clear thesis statement identifying your stance on whether rhetoric is declining throughout time based on your research on rhetoric and design with at least three main points that you will focus on in each the four to five body paragraphs in a chronological order of importance.B. In the first body paragraph give context about the debate among scholars.C. In the second and third body paragraphs, identify any similarities and loopholes in the theory claiming rhetoric is declining using a theorist on research and design to back your original claims.D. In the fourth and possibly fifth body paragraph, focus on the concept of “architectonic” to empower you to resolve the issue by explaining whether the design theory of modern rhetoric and design can be shown to effectively improve modern business, industry, or technology.E. The conclusion paragraph should explain how the illustrations proved your claims and reflect on your findings. It should explain how your research stands out. English 101 Guidelines for the Argumentative Research Paper ⦁ Essay Format When you start the paper, you will begin by finding a specific topic within a debatable issue. You will find valid support for all of your ideas that will become your claims that you will gather after synthesizing together outside sources and materials. You will, then, choose a side that you will argue. This will become your research question that will answer what exactly about the problem or point of debate you will solve or address with your own point of view in your paper. The answer to the research question will be your thesis statement. You will begin with a working thesis and reach a final thesis statement, once you know for certain what particular stance you will take on the issue and what specifically about the debate you will be focusing in on. Your thesis will be the stance that you take on an issue that you clearly describe in the introduction that includes supporting reasons at the end of the introductory paragraph. Each paragraph will describe those specific reasons that support your main argument. You may have two or three paragraphs that describe one main reason which proves your thesis in a chronological order of importance. Throughout your paper, vary your syntax. You should vary between simple and complex sentences throughout the paragraphs to make your writing smooth and cohesive. Your writing should be clear and easy to follow. Focus on eliminating wordiness, such as prepositional phrases or other phrases that could be stated in fewer words. The research paper should be at least five pages in length. It should have a minimum of six to seven paragraphs. It should be in Times New Roman and in twelve-point font. It should be double-spaced. There should be a header at the upper right-hand part of the page with your last name and the page number. You should use one-inch margins. The upper left-hand column contains your name, the instructors name, the class and assignment on the same line, and then the date should be written at the bottom. This should be written in a column that is in that order. The title should be centered and should be an intriguing phrase that captures the purpose of the essay and should not be italicized or quoted. It should state the point you are arguing. The essay should contain good grammar and punctuation. Use the present tense or the active voice. Your writing should contain formal diction without any slang or informal grammar. There should be no numbers written as symbols or abbreviations in the writing. Write everything out. One idea should connect to the next sentence. Each paragraph should cohesively build the argument and connect to one another. You should start your body paragraphs with the least important point and reach the last body paragraph with the most important point to prove your point effectively. You should have an introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. All paragraphs should contain five to six sentences. You will have a conversation among scholars that think similarly about the topic, directly disagree, or agree partially with one another. You will be using their arguments to prove your own point of view on a problem-based topic. You will connect similarities and contrasting views among scholars based on their evidence and claims to formulate your own original claims that are those of either fact, policy, or value. The purpose of this assignment is for you to contribute to scholarship by expounding on the work of scholars that think similarly and by critiquing those that oppose your point of view. You are evaluating the effectiveness of the evidence used and claims made by the proponents of your stance as you will work to find more specific illustrations and data to contribute to scholarship. You should use descriptive language with the most pertinent details to prove your point of view in order for your writing to be engaging for the reader and prove your credibility. Make sure to use the most logical arguments that include valid evidence, such as anecdotes, facts, statistics, and examples to prove your point throughout the paper. Analyze how the evidence proves your claim, state another claim building on the last point made, cite evidence again, analyze how the evidence proves your claim, and conclude by summing up the main point of the paragraph in connection to your thesis. ⦁ Argument Prompt: Identify your stance on the great debate regarding whether rhetoric is, in fact, declining over time based on your knowledge of design theory. Pinpoint any loopholes in the theory claiming that rhetoric is declining with your knowledge of design in the modern world. Provide research from a modern rhetoric and design theorist that backs your idea. Also, explain whether the design theory of modern rhetoric and design theorist can be shown effectively to improve modern business, industry, or technology in order to solve the debate. Utilize the term “architectonic” to support your example. Begin to form an argument by first using Jefferson State Community College’s online library and databases to research on the topic. Make sure to narrow your topic down by finding a specific point you want to focus in on and argue. The issue you focus in on should be a specific problem that is debatable. There should be scholarship on several points of view regarding the predicament that you can find. Argue one point of view. The paper is problem based. Choose an issue and solve it with your point of view. You are to connect similar ideas among scholars and form your own opinion on the issue based on inductive or deductive logic. You will use this logic to form your thesis statement. You are to argue your point by refuting the claims of others who oppose your point of view based on your ability to find errors in their logic. Use your knowledge of logical fallacies to refute the faults in their claims. When you begin to form an argument, focus on analyzing one commonly held opinion among scholars by contrasting it with your own opinion that can be supported by the opinions of other scholars, or begin by addressing a less popular view and refute it from a specific standpoint. You are contributing to the debate among scholars that think similarly to your viewpoint after completing a close reading of materials on the topic. Your claims are your own opinions and beliefs based on how you interpreted and synthesized together information from the scholars that support your opinion, otherwise known as the proponents of your stance. You should have sources that support your opinion and sources that oppose your viewpoint that you will refute. Your thesis is your stance on the debatable issue is at the end of the introduction. Your thesis should state something like, “Though a common viewpoint on the issue is ________, the issue can be seen from this point of view for these reasons ___, ___, and ____.”, or vice versa. You may start with a less common view and explain why it should be approached from another specific point of view that is original. You should have clear reasons behind your stance or point of view. Once you have stated a topic sentence, you have stated your first claim. After citing, explain what about the quote proves your point? Explain this after citing. Think about why you chose this quote to explain your idea and not others. Focus on what quote specifically addresses the argument you are making. When you begin researching, annotate your sources. Underline or highlight the thesis statement in the article. Then, find the main claim in each paragraph that supports their thesis and highlight it. After that, annotate the sentences you have highlighted. Ask yourself the following questions: is what they are saying logical or specific enough, could they have used other evidence to make their claims stronger, and is there another way they could have solved the issue that would make a better argument? You will use these questions to form your own claims that are your own opinions and beliefs on this issue. Synthesize sources into your paper by adding to the conversation among critics. Your claims are based on your theory regarding the argument. You are to critique the arguments of other scholars, authors, and critics and improve their arguments with your own points of view and find more specific evidence to form your own argumentative claims. Write an outline that states all of your own claims and the quotes or paraphrases you plan to use to stay organized. Find a statement that represents the main argument of one critic and make it stronger by finding stronger, more specific evidence to further their claim with your own point of view. Once you connect these ideas, you will be able to form your own claims on the debate. Refute opposing viewpoints that you have you found in articles or books or have thought of on your own with your knowledge of logical fallacies, rhetorical appeals, and other rhetorical modes and strategies. How might others see this issue? Would your audience agree with your point of view based on the values your argument has established? Focus on ethical, emotional, and logical appeals in each paragraph. A good paper uses all three modes of analysis in each paragraph to make your point convincing. Your thesis should also focus on predominately one of these rhetorical modes of analysis that includes ethos, pathos, and logos. A well-written research paper will include all three appeals throughout the body paragraphs. ⦁ MLA documentation You need at least four to five sources in the paper. The optimum number of sources would be six. You generally need to include more sources that support your point of view and a few that oppose your viewpoint, in order to fully analyze the debatable topic. You can use periodicals that are newspapers or magazines, peer reviewed journals from Jefferson State Community College’s databases, books from the college, and online sources that include .edu, .org., .gov, and .mil. Online books are also recommended. Remember that articles are to be placed in quotes and that only books, newspapers, and magazines are titles that are italicized. Make sure to print out all articles and keep them in a folder with your outlines, freewriting, notecards, and drafts. The folder will become a portfolio for the project that will help you stay organized. When you find sources, make sure to write them down or print out the name of the author, the source, the title of the article, or the book. If the source is a journal, find the volume and number. Write down the pages that you used, if it is a book or an article. Your paper should contain a works cited page in MLA 9th edition and you are required to include parenthetical citation after you cite from an outside source to substantiate your claims. Papers without citations are plagiarizing ideas from sources. This will result with a failing grade on the assignment and further academic penalties will be addressed.In the works cited page, all sources should be listed in alphabetical order and should not be numbered. The first line should not be indented, but the second line should be indented five spaces. Then, there should be only one double space in between sources. The title should state “Works Cited” in the center of the page without any quotes around the title, since none of your own titles should contain quotation marks. Parenthetical citations are as follows: (author’s last name pg.), (pg. or para.), or (“article title”) The parenthetical citation may be included immediately after the citation in a sentence or at the end of the sentence. Only cite one sentence per citation. Do not cite sentences that are four or more lines without placing them in block quotes. However, avoid long quotes as they take up space in your paper. Focus on specificity. Only use a block quote when you have to provide more context that cannot be stated in a sentence or two, in order to explain your point. As opposed to quoting, when you paraphrase, you are putting the words of others into your own words. Do not copy the same words, or the same sentence format.⦁ Paragraphing 35 %Your paper should be a conversation among critics, so you should have at least two sources per paragraph to support your point of view and at the most three quotes per paragraph. Your paragraphs should be set up based on the idea that though one critic says this, another says a similar point adding onto the other scholar’s point, or the scholar refutes it entirely. Either the sources have completely different views, they interact by contributing to what another one has said, or they concede, and this proves your point of view that are shown as your claims in your paper. Remember that each paragraph is based on one main idea. The sources are to be used to support your claims and should not direct the entirety of the paragraph. You, the scholar, direct the course each paragraph takes with supporting evidence. Your introduction should contain a topic sentence that presents an interesting lead into the debate. Do not give away your point of view, yet. The next sentence should give some background information about the topic. Address the debate among scholars. What do they think about the issue? Explain how the debate occurred and why this is important or is relevant in our world today. What are the predominate opinions about the issue held by critics and scholars? Then, state the predominate opposing view. Briefly explain why it is either logical or illogical from your point of view. After that, state your point of view on the issue, which is your stance at the end of the paragraph. There should be at least two to four reasons supporting your thesis addressed in each paragraph There should be a minimum of four body paragraphs. Each paragraph should focus on only one of the reasons behind your introductory points and thesis statement that you have listed. You can have two or three paragraphs per reason proving your thesis. Transition from the introduction to the next paragraph with an overview of the main point in the paragraph that connects to the thesis statement. By the time you get to the third paragraph, transition from one paragraph to the next with a topic sentence that connects the main point in the last paragraph to the present. After that, state your first claim. The claim is your own belief, opinion, or a known fact that you have contrived. It is either a claim of fact, value, or policy. You can arrive at your own claims by synthesizing sources together that are similar, concede, or that contrast entirely to their own points of view. After that, quote and cite. Always lead into the quote with the author’s, scholar’s, or critic’s name, the title of the source, and a transition word or phrase before quoting. Transition words include the following phrases: states that, argues that, conveys that, reveals that, indicates that, etc. You should say something like, The scholar in the article “_____ ” states that, ” _____.” (author’s last name pg. or para.) or (article title) The parenthetical citation should be on the same line. Then, explain how the quote proves your point and conclude by connecting the main idea in the paragraph back to the thesis. Only quote or paraphrase one sentence per citation. Choose the quote that most specifically addresses the issue that you are discussing. You must use the quote to prove your own point of view using logical appeals and rhetorical modes of analyzing. You should use at least two quotes and claims per paragraph that build on each other and describe what the quote or citation means to give context for your reader as to why you chose that specific quote. After that, contextualize how the quote specifically proves your own point of view. Cite evidence that includes facts, statistics, case studies, observations, anecdotal evidence, expert opinion, interviews, surveys, and textual evidence. You should use specific examples, illustrations, rhetorical modes and strategies (description, comparison and contrast, evaluation, definition) rhetorical appeals as follows: ethos, pathos, logos, inductive and deductive reasoning, syllogism, the Toulmin argument, along with your knowledge of logical fallacies to prove your point. You may bring in your own scenarios, anecdotal evidence, or observations to prove your point. Make sure to prove one main point in each paragraph that you are arguing in connection to the thesis through defining the debate among scholars. Do not state an idea without explaining it in more detail before reaching your next point cohesively. One point should be fully explained and gradually reach the next point as you build your argument. Your evidence varies based on what type of topic and the arguments you have chosen. Always use the most appropriate and specific evidence to prove your point. Conclude the paragraph by summing up the main idea of the paragraph in connection to the thesis. You will either include paragraphs that build your point of view by using sources from scholars that agree with your point of view, or you will begin with an opposing view that will be explained and refuted with valid evidence. Vary between these two paragraph structures. You should have at least five to six body paragraphs. You should have a total of at least six paragraphs, including the introduction and the conclusion paragraphs. As stated earlier, you need two or three quotes or paraphrases to create a conversation among critics or scholars. You are contributing to their scholarly conversation with your own point of view. Remember that those scholars’ or critics’ ideas you are using have already been proven, so you do not need to prove their own points. Rather, you are using their points of view to contrive your own perspectives on the debate. You should have two or three claims of your own per paragraph and then state a quote or paraphrase from a source to support your idea. Repeat the previously stated process of explaining how it proves your point each time you quote. Do not overuse rhetorical questions to state your claims. Always use proper punctuation with periods that are placed at the end of each sentence. Remember to always answer your own questions you have about the topic that are not rhetorical questions. You should always conclude at the end of each paragraph with the main point of the paragraph connecting it back to the thesis The conclusion paragraph should give a more in-depth analysis regarding how the body paragraphs proved your point of view. There should be no new quotes or information regarding the paper in the conclusion. All of your arguments should have been stated earlier. It should not just reiterate the introduction, but rather it should explain what about the evidence exactly proved your point throughout the research paper. What did you learn from the research and how did you solve the debatable issue? Put your paragraph into a greater context. How does your scholarship contribute to the world and society in a greater context? Call to action. The essay is problem-based and your call to action would state what you would do to solve the issue.’Citation Format:Cite a database as follows-Last, First M. “Article Title.” Publication Title, volume, number, issue (if provided), date published, page numbers (if applicable). Database Name, DOI or URL.Cite a website as follows- Last name, First Name, “article title”, database name, URL, and access date. On the Research Project: For the research project, you will write a six to seven-paragraph essay including three to four scholarly sources.
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