Peer Review                                           7

            Conferences                             15

            Feedback and Revision               3

Cause and Effect Essay                        25

You will be able to make two revisions for Cause and Effect Essay. Papers MUST be in MLA style.

Your papers will be graded based on several criteria (handout).

Cause and Effect: 1000 words or more (Final Version)

A minimum of TWO articles for Cause and Effect Essay

Bring one copy of the 1^stdraft of Cause and Effect paper to class for peer-review.

Due Dates:

1^st draft: 3 pm on 05/09/2016, Monday

2^nd draft: 3 pm on 05/16/2016, Monday

Final draft: 3 pm on 05/25/2016, Wednesday

Two Conferences

I will meet you one-on-one after1^st draft of Introduction and 2^nd draft of the whole paper, discussing your progress as an academic writer, providing more detailed feedback on the Essay.

We will discuss the following aspects:

1.      Your ideas on the issue and the clarity of your argument

2.      Yourweaknesses and strengths in your paper

1. Discussion of what you need to do to improve the paper

You will earn points based in the following aspects:

1.      Your understanding of the essential components of each paragraph of the paper

2.      Your understanding of your weaknesses and strengths in your paper after conference

3.      Revision plan - What you are going to do for revision

Peer Review(Peer Review Form)

7 points

• You are required to give feedback to your partner on the first draft of his/her paper.

• There will be a detailed discussion in class of how to conduct a constructive peer-review with an example or two.

The goal of Peer-Review:

-        To foster your critical thinking skills through this self-reflective activity.

-        To develop and ability to clarify and strengthen your own ideas from the strengths and from identifying and articulating weaknesses in your peer's paper

You need to follow the guidelines given below: (There will be a Peer-Review Form.)

1.      Read a draft all the way through before you begin to make comments on it. Take the time to read the whole paper in order to get all the points the paper makes.

2.      Point out both the strengths and weaknesses of the draft.

3.      When you find something unclear or you cannot understand, state it and offer appropriate and constructive comments. You can make suggestions about how to improve the paper.

4.      Your comments should be text-specific, meaning that when you make comments on certain points or sentences, you need to refer to the specific points or sentences.

5.      Do not make comments on grammatical aspects.

6.      Before you give your review with comments to the author or submit to the instructor, reread your comments to make sure they are clear enough for the author to understand.

Please be considerate when making comments. Do not say, for example, "I don't understand this or that." Instead, say, "Would you please clarify this?"

Feedback and Revision

3 points

• Your brief 1-2 page summary of the feedback you received from your classmate (peer-review) and from me, your instructor, on your 2^nd draft and during conferences and of how you used the feedback in the revision (2 points)

1^st Paragraph:  Summarize the feedback you received from your partner (peer-review) and me.

Refer to your partner by his/her name first and then a pronoun, she/he. Refer to me by professor Kim and then she...

2^nd/3^rd Paragraph(s): State how you used the feedback to improve your paper.

Cause and Effect Essay

25 points

• The final version of the essay will be graded based on several important criteria (handout).

• The topic(s) will be selected after in-class discussion.

• Every step of the writing process, there will be handouts - Forms for reference summary and a Diagram for the essay structure, which will help you understand the structure of English Academic Writing.

• You will be able to make two revisions for Argumentation Essay.

1000 words or more (Final Version); A minimum of THREE articles for the Essay

• All references should come from scholarly journals, scholarly magazines, and academic books. Newspaper articles can be used as references if they are not opinion pieces.

• The paper MUST be written in MLA Format.

• Do not plagiarize/copy others' work. (Refer to your syllabus for penalty.)

The following are aspects you need to have in your Paper. Each missing aspect will result in point reduction.

Introduction:

a.      State the issue/topic and General information of the issue you are going to discuss in your paper. If you discuss poverty, for example, discuss the reality/status of poverty in USA or in any other country.

b.      State the causes of poverty and the effects of poverty.

c.      State why the issue, in this case causes and/or effects of the issue, is important to discuss or pay attention to.

Body Paragraphs:

Everything discussed in Body paragraphs should be connected to your thesis (the causes/effects of the issue). Do not start a cause/effect or do not omit any point you made in Introduction.

a.      Each paragraph should have a point (topic sentence) and/or evidence/example(s). A topic sentence tells what you are going to discuss in the paragraph, in this case, one cause/effect in each body paragraph.

b.      Transition from paragraph to paragraph should be smooth.

c.      Every point you make should be supported with specific and detailed discussion and evidence/example(s)

d.      At the end of each paragraph, you may have a brief wrap-up sentence to tell how the point of the paragraph supports/is connected to your thesis.

e.      When you cite or paraphrase professional works, please make sure to include them in text and Works Cited page(s).

Conclusion:

There are different ways of wrapping up the paper.

a.      Restate what you have discussed in Introduction and Body; OR

b.      Make suggestions for solutions to the issue in discussion along with key points of your points.