You are now required to revise Essay #2. Here is the due dates and som

You are now required to revise Essay #2. Here is the due dates and some guidelines for this revision:

Draft 2 of Essay #2 is due by 11:59 PM on Friday, February 5. Submit the second draft to the new Turnitin space that is open in Formal Essay Assignments—see “Essay 2,draft 2.”

The second draft should be a minimum of 900 words long. Some of you may have already reached or passed this number, but you still should be making changes to the essay—adding, cutting, and changing information—so you still want to remember it. And, it’s a minimum, so you can write more than this, but you should have a clear, strong thesis that limits the essay’s length.

This is a thesis-driven essay; that is, it is an essay that is making a point about the issue you identify. You should not be merely reporting information in your sources, in other words. The second draft should therefore use the sources you have selected to develop your point of view.

Remember, you must use Jia Tolentino’s chapter “The I in the Internet” and at least one other text from the course reading material as a source. In addition to this, you are in the process of doing independent research for one of your essays that will become the “Capstone” paper in your portfolio. If it is this essay, you can begin to integrate the additional sources you found into the next draft. Use no more than 5 texts to help develop what you write in the essay. In addition to introducing and summarizing them, you should be integrating exact, quoted evidence from them to help you develop ideas in the paper that support your thesis. You want to both “tell” and “show” ideas to the reader. And, you should include your own experience as evidence to help reason-through your ideas. On many first drafts, I suggested that this is a way to have more control of an essay going forward.  

Finally, the second draft should have a Works Cited page that lists the sources cited in the paper. See the “Basic MLA—10 Things for ENG 12” handout and “Sample Works Cited page” in Course Information and the Purdue OWL website for more information and examples on MLA guidelines for in-text citations and for constructing a Works Cited page.