ENG 100: Enhanced Composition - Brian T. Murphy



ENG 100Essay 4: ArgumentBrian T. Murphy“Draft” Due Tue. 15 November (K4)/Wed. 23 Nov. (G3)After reading??“Arguing” (Bullock 355-375), “Arguing a Position” (Bullock 156-182), and the assigned persuasive essays, select one of the three topics on which you have already done prewriting (a preliminary thesis and ideas) and compose a formal, final persuasive thesis statement and at least three to five topic sentences for the body of your argument. Your thesis should be argumentative (making a claim), rather than purely informative. Be sure to include in your topic sentences appropriate evidence, examples, data, or other support for your assertion; remember, however, that these are not research essays.As always, your “draft” should be correctly formatted and correct, free of errors in mechanics, grammar, usage, and spelling. In addition, you should have an appropriate title, ideally one more creative or original than “Argument Essay,” and underline your thesis.Your submission must be typed, 12-point Times new Roman, double-spaced, and adhere to the following format:Thesis statement: A formal, specific, clear, and assertive statement on the actual debate or issue, adopting one side or favoring a single proposal. It must include your topic, the claim or assertion, and the major divisions of your ic sentence 1: The first major point or argument in favor of your ic sentence 2: The second point supporting your argument.And so on.For example:Thesis statement: Voluntary physician-assisted suicide should be a legal option for terminally ill patients, to alleviate prolonged physical and emotional suffering and to avoid unnecessary ic sentence 1: Many terminally ill patients suffer excruciating, untreatable pain, which could be alleviated were voluntary euthanasia ic sentence 2: In addition to physical suffering, emotional suffering takes a toll on both the patient and his or her ic sentence 3: Perhaps most important, the financial cost of long-term health care for the terminally ill could be greatly reduced were these patients allowed to terminate their lives legally.Alternatively, you may choose to submit a draft, as above, on one of the following topics:Education reform (for example. improving readings scores on standardized tests in K-12, increasing student retention rates in college, streamlining remedial coursework, and so on)Election reform (for example, abolishing the Electoral College, restricting PAC funding, and so on)Tax reform (replacing income taxes with a consumption tax, implementing a flat tax rate, and so on)Regardless of the topic selected, you must include the prewriting previously done in lab, and remember that these are not research essays; use of secondary sources, whether credited or not, will be considered grounds for failure Last revised: 11 November 2016 ................
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