Paper One: Scott and Leonhardt
In this assignment you must answer the following question:
How important is social class to a person's success in life?
The paper must directly and indirectly quote "The Shadowy Lines That Still Divide," by Janny Scott and David Leonhardt and use MLA citation correctly. If you need a review in paraphrasing, quotation, and MLA citation, consult "Phil Eggers: Quotation, Paraphrasing, and MLA Citation" in the Course Documents of Blackboard. You must use only the reading(s) mentioned above. Papers that use other sources or, worse, plagiarize from them will receive no credit. Papers must be at least two full pages long and no more than three pages long. They must also be double-spaced at 12-pitch. Use transitional terms to introduce body paragraphs and the conclusion. Use proper, three-part paragraph structure in the body paragraphs.
PREWRITING INSTRUCTIONS:
On the Prewriting handout, under "Introduction," and after "Lead-in," make notes on how you will introduce the general topic of the essay to your reader. After "Tie-in," make notes on how you will narrow that topic down to prepare the reader for the thesis statement. It is here where you typically mention the title(s) and author(s) of the article(s) and briefly tell the reader how the author(s) might respond to the above question. After "Thesis statement," write a sentence that provides your answer the above bolded question.
Next you will need to prewrite the body of your paper. While you may only end up with three body paragraphs, space has been left for five. Attach additional paper if your body paragraphs will number more than five. Each body paragraph needs to develop a different reason in supports of your thesis. Each reason will become its own topic sentence, and you must write out each topic sentence in the prewriting. The number of body paragraphs you end up using will be dependent upon how many reasons you can invent to support your thesis.
Then, under each topic sentence, make notes on how you plan to support it through explanation and examples. Ideally, each body paragraph would directly cite the reading passage it addresses at least once-through paraphrasing, quotation, or both.
Finally, your essay needs to have a conclusion. Under "Conclusion," and after "Restatement of the thesis in different words," write down how you will restate the main idea of your essay without repeating word for word what you wrote earlier. After "Final thought related to the topic," write down how you will bring the essay to a close.