Construct a text that incorporates critical reading, analyzing, and interaction with sources. C

• Construct a text that incorporates critical reading, analyzing, and interaction with sources. 
• Construct a text that demonstrates an understanding of the elements of argumentation. 
• Show fluency within the various stages of the writing process.
• Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Instructions

• Incorporate the feedback you have been given as you compile all of the sections of your researched argument paper in this order:
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Argument
  • Conclusion
  • References/bibliography (no annotations)
• The paper will be a minimum of 3200 words, not including references. It should have a minimum of 9 authoritative and pertinent sources, including statistics, books, and scholarly journal articles. This can be your 8 sources from the annotated bibliography assignments and your personal interview. You may use dictionaries or encyclopedias (sparingly) and the Bible, but they do not count toward the 9 sources. You may not use Wikipedia, about.com, Wikihow, Sparknotes, etc. or personal blogs without prior permission from the instructor.
• As you compile your paper, attend to transitions between sections, since you have written them separately.
• You will be graded on: Explanation of issues, Exploration of context and assumptions, Your position, Conclusion and related outcomes, Composing, Sources and evidence, Syntax and mechanics, and Revision.