You will then need to decide what specific aspect of the topic you want to discuss.

Start with a general topic. You will then need to decide what specific aspect of the topic you want to discuss. It should be appropriate for a 5 page essay. For example, if you choose “Environmental Issues” as a topic, you could focus on pollution specifically, and your argument might be about the best way to stop pollution. Or, if you choose “Environmental Issues,” you could focus on the importance of renewable energy sources specifically, and your argument might be why renewable energy is preferable to other types of energy sources.
You will need to use a total of three sources. You may use essays from TSIS, if they are relevant. In the annotated bibliography, you will need to verify the credibility of all sources, so consider that when you are choosing sources.
Overview of the Argumentative Research Paper Final Draft
For the Argumentative Research Paper, you will analyze at least three sources and then formulate a thesis about this evidence. Because this assignment emphasizes research undertaken for and communicated to an academic audience, you will integrate your research evidence into your own argument.
This assignment should be at least 5 pages, double-spaced, typed in 12-point font, and set to 1″
bjectives:
Analyze at least 3 sources.
Explore and make claims, using the sources as support.
Develop a complex thesis.
Introduce complicating evidence.
Demonstrate awareness about your role in the conversation about your research question and thesis by acknowledging what is at stake. In other words, explain why your argument matters.
Integrate sources in a way that accounts for aspects of the academic conversation that are relevant to the paper’s thesis.
Include a title on the first page that reflects the complexity of the paper’s general purposes.
Include proper in-text citations of each source consulted or referred to, and an appropriately formatted Works Cited page following MLA guidelines.
Observe the standards of academic writing discussed in class and avoid sentence-level errors and lapses in tone. Produce fluid and precise prose with appropriate transitions throughout.