Guilford County Schools Disadvantages of Poverty
13650Full topic: Guilford County School district addressing societal issues like the “disadvantages of poverty” for young children through initiatives like Ready for School, Ready for Life.
Sources:
At least 3—and drawing on three different sorts of sources, such as…
➢ Books
➢ Websites
➢ Photos/graphics (charts)
➢ Pamphlets
➢ YouTube videos
➢ Radio /television news report or program
➢ Podcasts
➢ Fieldwork: interviews, surveys, polls, photographs that you take
Document Design Format:
• Double-spacing
• 12’ font
• Times New Roman script
• One-inch margins, title centered at top of first page
• Student name, instructor name, class and section, date of turn-in (all double-spaced) at top-left-corner of first page
• Last name and page number in top right corner of all pages
• MLA-style in-text citations and list of Works Cited at end of essay (separate page)
• White printer or copier paper only (unless e-mailing paper as attachment)
• Black ink
• Indent all paragraphs one tab
Assignment Description:
Your task in this formal, research-driven essay involves the following:
1. Providing readers with sufficient background or context concerning a social problem, one that affects a wide range of people—but, at the institutional, local, state or regional level.
2. Demonstrating your chosen social problem’s significance or relevance: an argument of value, with ample supporting evidence
3. Proposing a course of action to solve or ease the severity of the problem under discussion (argument t of policy/proposal).
4. Providing at least three supporting reasons or pieces of supporting evidence to substantiate your claim of policy.
5. Acknowledging at least one counterproposal or likely objection to your claim of policy; engaging at least one counterargument, and articulating that counterargument objectively and accurately.
6. Responding to that counterargument, challenging its critique of your claim of policy, ideally negating or disproving it (in terms of the classical format for argument, refutation)
7. Summarizing your overall discussion and striving to draw a broad or new conclusion from your discussion as a whole; offering a closing insight or reflection that connects your remarks to a larger topic, a wider conversation or a broader debate (the element of synthesis).
In essence, you’ll be…
• Highlighting or identifying a social problem—at the institutional, local, state or regional level
• Providing readers with any necessary background information concerning the problem.
• Convincing readers the problem on which you focus is sufficiently relevant or of sufficient importance to compel action
• Proposing a course of action to solve the problem, or at least ease (or ameliorate, or mitigate) its severity.
• Providing at least three supports to substantiate your claim of policy.
• Acknowledging at least one plausible counterargument.
• Responding to that counterargument, defending your argument from its criticisms.
• Summarizing your remarks and striving to achieve synthesis in your conclusion.
Criteria for Evaluation:
✓ An introduction that provides adequate background information and effectively engages or focuses the attention of readers
✓ Ample evidence of your chosen problems relevance or significance
✓ A clear and correctly formulated claim of policy
✓ Adequate and appropriate support for the claim of policy
✓ Due consideration of opposing views or of possible criticisms of your reasoning and/or argumentation and effective refutation of these challenges
✓ A conclusion that adequately summarizes key points and simultaneously achieves synthesis
✓ Effective integration of source material: quotations, paraphrases, summaries (avoiding “data-dumps,” contextualizing source material, explaining its relationship to the claim it supports, etc.)
✓ Appropriate handling of signal phrasing, in-text/parenthetical citations and entries in a list of Works Cited
✓ Consistency of focus within each segment of the overall essay
✓ Effective transitions within and between paragraphs as well as between the various parts of the broader argument/essay
✓ Management of tone and diction (an objective, reasoned, restrained tone; elevated, formal diction)
✓ Sound and consistent reasoning throughout—avoiding any fallacies of argument
✓ Adherence to MLA document design format: length, font, script, pagination, spacing, etc.
✓ Command of grammatical and mechanical aspects of essay writing: spelling, grammar, sentence boundaries, punctuation, word use, etc.
(Typically ½ to 1 point for mechanical errors, and 3-4 points for sentence structure errors: sentence fragments, comma splices, fused sentences, etc.)
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