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B. context / background / tie-in to thesis

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II. Supporting Paragraph 1

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III. Supporting Paragraph 2

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IV. Supporting Paragraph 3

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V. Supporting Paragraph 4

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Conclusion

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B. restate thesis statement

C. closing lines

Required reading assignments for Essay 3:

▪ “The Power of Slang” by Tom Dalzell

▪ “The Case for Cursing” by Kristin Wong

▪ “I Don’t ‘Code-Switch’ to Hide My Identity. I ‘Code-Switch’ to Celebrate It” by Vaidehi Mujumdar

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▪ “MLA Updates for 8th Edition” by JM Paquette

▪ “The Guiding Idea and Argumentative Thesis Statement” by Rhonda Dietrich

▪ “Avoiding Plagiarism” by Angela Edward-Mangione

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Here are some related articles to help kickstart your research; you should use one or two of these in your essay (and find one or two articles of your own):

▪ “How Code-Switching Explains the World”

▪ “Is the Internet Hurting Proper English? LOL, No”

▪ “When You ‘Literally Can’t Even’ Understand Your Teenager”

▪ “What the F? What Swearing Reveals about Language and Ourselves”

▪ “The Life and Death of American Slang, Part I: Shade and Twerk”

▪ “The Life and Death of American Slang, Part II: BAE and Basic Bitch”

▪ “Teens Aren’t Ruining Language”

▪ “Who Am I? The Identity Quest of Bicultural Bilinguals”

▪ “The Social Benefits of Swearing”

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Online dictionaries which you can use (but do not count as the research sources):

▪ Urban Dictionary

▪ Green’s Dictionary of Slang

▪ Merriam-Webster online dictionary

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