Q Too often students are asked to do research for the sole purpose of supporting and proving their own ideas, but research, like writing, is an exploratory, generative and recursive process where our flexible ideas should change and grow more complex. To meet these unique goals of our research process this semester, we will choose an educated related issue to research. We will not begin with a preconceived thesis but create one as our research and drafting leads us to conclusions. We will use the outside sources we find to create an academic dialogue in which we integrate outside sources to provide information and context for our subject, to argue against, to support our ideas, to create a conversation among theorists, to define theories and major terms, etc. Essay Assignment: In 5-7 pages, create an argumentative research paper which explores the education related issue you have chosen in a purposeful way. Your purpose for writing will not only be shaped by your own analysis of the issue but also by the common focuses shared by other published scholars and the angles they use to discuss the issue. You will be joining this ongoing academic conversation with your own evaluations of the issue and by citing evidence from your sources. You will need to introduce each source you quote or paraphrase in the text of your paper, fully interpret and analyze the quotations AND use parenthetical documentation to credit these sources. Remember that even though you are writing a research paper, your ideas are still the focus of the essay. You must use at least one example of each of the Aristotelian appeals of ethos, pathos and logos in your argument. Your paper will have a Works Cited page which follows MLA conventions and contains a minimum of 10 or more sources. *NOTE: Your Works Cited page will list 10 or more sources, but you only need to quote or paraphrase from 5 of your 10 sources in the essay itself. PreviousNext