| Contrastive Analysis Essay - WRIT 1120 |
Spring 2013 |
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| Peer Review Day:
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Peer Review preparation & participation: 6
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| Final Packet
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Staple: final draft, 1st draft, this scoresheet |
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| GOALS |
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| This assignment
will give you practice in critical analysis and comparison/contrast, skills
which you will use in |
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papers. |
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| ASSIGNMENT |
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| You will write an essay using comparison/contrast structure in
which you support a thesis by analyzing and contrasting two sources you plan
to use for your final research paper. Those sources will have been approved
for use in your contrastive analysis essay by me beforehand (see below). For
best results, use point-by-point format (three body paragraphs, each focused
on an aspect of both sources, discussing each source in the same order in all
three paragraphs). Your final draft of this essay should be 4-6 pages. |
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Merely stating that there are differences and similarities
between the sources is NOT an acceptable thesis. The thesis of your
Contrastive Analysis Essay will probably be some variation on the
following:
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| "The
article by Smith will be more useful to me as support for my final paper than
the article by Jones." |
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| You must choose one of the two sources to be superior to the
other in some significant respects, and all your essay's |
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explain ways in which one article is more useful to you than the other as a
source. |
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| CHOOSING
ARTICLES FOR APPROVAL |
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| You are advised to submit articles from scholarly journals
and/or library databases if possible. Do not submit book reviews or articles
from general encyclopedias. Avoid short articles (less than 2 pages) or
articles found on the WWW. If the article is too long to print, you may print
the first 3-4 pages and the last 2-3 pages. Be sure the printout contains all
necessary citation information: author name (if provided), article title,
name of source, and date. Please also include the URL for web sources. Submit
at least two articles, but feel free to submit more. |
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| USING & CITING SOURCES |
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| Use MLA style to cite anything that requires attribution. At
least two sources (the sources you are contrasting) should be cited in the
bibliography, though you might include more. For example, if you are
discussing the authors' respective credibility, you might cite a biography or
other source in which an author is discussed. The bibliography for this essay
does not require annotations. Remember that final drafts submitted without a
bibliography and/or internal citations will receive an automatic score of
zero that cannot be made up. |
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| GRADING CRITERIA |
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Earned |
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Appropriate thesis |
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10 |
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of claims/supports |
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22 |
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prose and organization |
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7 |
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Correct academic tone |
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3 |
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internal & external citations |
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8 |
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Mechanics & formatting |
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6 |
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56 |
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