Assignment

SEARCH a Personal Experience with the Loch Ness Monster (MLA Format)

Question: Is the eyewitness claim about the Loch Ness Monster reasonable and possibly true?

Length: 1000 words, double-spaced, in MLA format. Your Works Cited page does not count toward the assignment length.

Sources: You need at least two credible secondary sources. Your primary source is How to Think About Weird Things. You may find your two secondary source on the Internet. You may use any kind of credible source. Can only quote one word or one phrase, no sentence.

Thesis statement: In this essay, your thesis statement should be your answer to the question.

Explanation: SEARCH the following passage, from page 152 of How to Think About Weird Things

Well, the day that I saw the [Loch Ness] monster, it was the end of September 1990, and I was driving back from Inverness. I came up the hill where we came in sight of the bay, glanced out across it, and saw this large lump, is the best way to describe it. The nearest I can tell you is it looked like a boat that had turned upside down. Pretty much like that one out there, actually, same sort of size. If you took that boat and put it in the entrance to the bay, which is where I saw the monster, that's the size of it. About 30 feet in length, and nearly 10 feet in height from the water to the top of the back. It was a bright, sunny day, the water was bright blue, and it really showed up against it. It was a mixture of brown-greens, sludgy sort of colors. I looked at it on and off for a few seconds, because I was driving. Must have seen it three or four times, and the last time I looked, it was gone! (Val Moffat, eyewitness quoted in NOVA Online, "The Beast of Loch Ness," accessed December 2, 2003).

Text Book: How to Think about Weird Things- Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick, Jr. SEVENTH EDITION.