CM107 Unit 8 Assignment

Your Unit 8 Assignment will allow you to apply all you have learned in the course so far about

the writing process, reading comprehension skills, and the research process. You will also learn

about a relevant change in your field of study and communicate relevant information about that

change to your educated, academic audience.

Your Unit 8 Assignment should be a formal, academic essay of 5-6 paragraphs, between two

and ½ and three pages long, double spaced (excluding title page and References page). The

paper should inform your audience about a specific, recent, and researchable change, either

positive or negative, in your field of study. Your goal is to explain to your audience either what

caused this change to occur or to analyze the effects this change has had on the field, without

taking a position, arguing for a change, or offering solutions.

As the final draft version of the paper you began in Unit 5, your Unit 8 Assignment should

demonstrate your ability to do the following:

1. Focus on a single, specific, relevant, recent, and researchable change, either positive or

negative, in your general field of study. Please note that technology is too broad as a

topic, but a specific technological change like the increased use of cloud computing is a

change; obesity is not a change, but the increase in obesity rates among children is a

change.

2. Establish a clear thesis about this topic that focuses on either what caused the change

or what effect this change has had on the field. You may not analyze both cause and

effect.

3. Develop your thesis with specific observations, details, analysis, and research

information

4. Avoid taking a position, making recommendations, or addressing solutions-the paper

must be an objective, analytical essay that instead only analyzes the causes or effects of

this change.

5. Organize your information logically, using clear transitions

6. Use appropriate formal third person language, avoiding first and second person

language

7. Integrate 3-4 relevant and reliable, peer reviewed secondary sources and demonstrate

the ability to summarize and paraphrase source information rather than relying on

quotes

8. Apply current APA citations format to credit any and all uses of source information, both

when you use the source information within the paragraphs (in text citations) and in an

alphabetically listed References page

9. Apply revision, editing, and proofreading strategies to substantially revise your final draft,

demonstrating substantial revision of your Unit 6 Assignment and Unit 8 Discussion

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10. Apply current APA formatting expectations (title page, double spaced parag