Research Practice Writing

Research Practice Writing 3 Instructions Research Practice Writings provide you with a chance to work on research writing skills like quotation and citation ahead of the research essay but make no mistake—these are real assignments for a real grade, so you need to do your very best. Minimum Length: Over 1 page of double-spaced, size-12 text Grammatical Correctness: Grammar is the most important thing to me, and it’s how most students end up failing essays. Pay attention to spell and grammar checks and use services like Grammarly. Only major grammar errors affect your grade on Practice Writings; both major and minor errors are counted in essays. Basic Writing Elements: Your writing should have the following elements: 1. an original and engaging title that indicates the content of the assignment 2. introductory sentence(s) or a short introductory paragraph 3. supporting detail sentences/paragraphs 4. concluding sentence(s) or a short concluding paragraph Refer to the Writing Essays presentation in the Essays folder in Blackboard for more info on these elements. MLA Design: I have made instructional videos for how to format MLA writing in both Word and Google Docs. You can find them in the Essays folder. Do what they show you and make your writing look exactly like what you see. Research Writing Elements: Your submission must also have the following research writing elements: ✓ Researched content- Your assignment must include research from at least 1 source. You may certainly have more than one, but remember that the more sources you have, the more you have to keep up with. ✓ Correctly formatted quotes- You may use direct quotes from your sources if you feel most comfortable with that method, but you are welcome to paraphrase as well if you can do so without plagiarizing. ✓ Correctly formatted MLA in-text citations- See my In-Text Citation Presentation in the Essays folder on how to construct your in-text citations. Consult Purdue OWL or me for any sources they don’t cover. ✓ Correctly formatted MLA works-cited citations- See my Works-Cited Presentation in the Essays folder on how to construct your works-cited citations. Consult Purdue OWL or me for any sources they don’t cover. With research assignments, you have a responsibility to correctly use and cite your sources. There are tough penalties for ignoring this responsibility or failing to take it seriously. ✓ MLA is all we have discussed this semester, so it is all I want to see. Submissions with any formatting and citation system other than MLA (APA/Turabian/Strunk and White/your own style of formatting or citations) will receive a zero for MLA Setup & Documentation. ✓ Do not take material from the Internet or any other source and drop it into your work without properly citing it! That is plagiarism, and it will get your submission an automatic 50 (first offense) or a 0 and reported to the Office of Academic Affairs (second offense). ✓ Submissions with no research, without any in-text citations, or with inadequate Works Cited citations will receive a zero for Requirements Met. When you have finished the assignment, save it as a .docx or .pdf file and upload that file to the Research Practice Writing 1 Dropbox in the Practice Writings folder in Blackboard. If you need help figuring out how to submit your assignment, I have a video in the Practice Writings folder that can show you what to do. The assignment can be turned in late in Blackboard for up to 3 days after the due date, with a 5-point penalty for each day it is late. Here is the writing topic for your assignment: Carefully study the sculptures in these links: Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss and Robert Indiana’s LOVE. Compare and contrast them and organize your writing around either the point-by-point or subject-by-subject system. If you need a refresher on the compare and contrast organization systems, this website has a very good explanation. Both sculptures express the same idea: love. Which one do you think captures the idea of love better for you? Why? What makes the other image less able to do that? Why? Do some research on the sculptures and find material you can integrate into your writing to give you some practice with quotation and citation. Here are some points to consider as you go: • Medium (what the sculptures are made of) • Stance and appearance of the figures (clothing, hair, accessories, etc.) • Size • Level of detail • Props or elements of the statue other than the main figures