ENG 215 Week 4 Draft of Week 5 Persuasive Research Paper

At this stage, you are ready to streamline your argument into a coherent and readable draft. The skills of drafting and revising will serve you well in the future, no matter where your career might take you. All disciplines depend on the evaluation and dissemination of information, which in turn depend on the process of research, drafting, and revision. Great care must be taken to refine your thesis statement and check the relevance and unity of each paragraph in the essay. These are the essential links in your argument, which will reach its final shape next week.

Use your working thesis, outline, and list of citations to assemble your draft. Read it aloud to yourself or to someone you trust. This will help you make adjustments in the logic and flow of your draft.

Review instructor feedback on your Week 1 to Week 3 assignments.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word draft of your paper, based on the topic you selected, your research in Week 2, and your thesis and outline from Week 3. Ensure that you do the following while drafting your paper:

• Review the relevance, reliability, and objectivity of your sources.
• Revise thesis statements and topic sentences as appropriate.
• Demonstrate effective summarizing and paraphrasing of your sources.
• Use a minimum of four peer-reviewed sources.

Note: If you are writing on a topic that is part of an ongoing debate, your argument must address all sides of the issue, and must represent and persuasively respond to positions different from your own.

If you are writing on a relatively new or unknown topic, part of your task will be educating your readers on this topic and proving that it is worthy of serious public debate.

Review your essay for effective use of basic English grammar, word usage, and sentence style before turning in your paper.

Format your paper consistent with appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

Submit your paper to the Assignment Files tab.