Essay 4: Making a Proposal Essay/Final Exam Percentage: 20% of final average Due Date: 12 PM, noon, Dec 14 Length: at least 750 words, max of 1,000, not counting quotations or your works cited page   Sources: at least 5 sources (you can use the same sources from your Annotated Bibliography); you may want to use more sources or other sources, and perhaps not use all the sources from your Annotated Bibliography; it will depend on the evidence that you need for this essay, but you must have at least 5 sources from the LSC-K library for this essay   Note: you must write at least 750 words to receive credit; that means anything less than 750 will receive a zero, not just a low grade, but no credit at all, because requirements will not have been met   Format: MLA format; double-spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt

Essay 4: Making a Proposal Essay/Final Exam

Percentage: 20% of final average

Due Date: 12 PM, noon, Dec 14

Length: at least 750 words, max of 1,000, not counting quotations or your works cited page

Sources: at least 5 sources (you can use the same sources from your Annotated Bibliography); you may want to use more sources or other sources, and perhaps not use all the sources from your Annotated Bibliography; it will depend on the evidence that you need for this essay, but you must have at least 5 sources from the LSC-K library for this essay

Note: you must write at least 750 words to receive credit; that means anything less than 750 will receive a zero, not just a low grade, but no credit at all, because requirements will not have been met

Format: MLA format; double-spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt. font

Instructions:

You will write a proposal essay over the same topic as your Annotating a Bibliography essay. That means over Covid-19. Based on the research you did for your Annotating a Bibliography essay, you will now propose some solution about your topic. Your thesis will be what you think should be done about your topic. In your essay, you will do 4 things: 1) describe some specific problem with your topic, 2) propose something specific to be done about your topic, 3) provide evidence that will address the problem, and 4) state what your proposal will accomplish.

Note: Your proposal will not solve your topic/problem. It may address it, but I don’t expect you to solve it in such a short essay. Problems are more complicated than that. However, your proposal may address your problem in some intelligent way based on research.

This will be a 5 paragraph essay, with a works cited page at the end.

Paragraph 1: Introduction

Your introduction should do 3 things.

The first sentence of your introduction should provide some hook into your topic/problem. Ask an interesting question or provide an interesting fact/statistic/quote from a source (don’t forget your in-text citation).

Then your introduction should explain the problem/topic. You need to describe the problem. Be specific. You need to hone in on the problem. You aren’t writing generally about Covid-19. You are writing about some specific problem you found about Covid-19 that all your research is about from your Annotated Bibliography. This should be a well-developed paragraph. Think summary—you are summarizing your topic/problem. So you should have source material here, in summarized form (not quoted).

Your thesis is the last sentence of your introduction. It is one sentence where you propose something to be done about your topic/problem. The format is=topic+proposal

Name the topic+state what should be done about it

Make sure there is no “I” in your thesis or in this essay.

Paragraph 2-4: Body

You should give 3 reasons for your proposal in order of importance, from least important to most important. Each of your reasons should be in topic sentences. You support your reasons with evidence from your sources from your annotated bibliography. If you need to do more research for this essay than what you did in your annotated bibliography, that is okay.

Each body paragraph should do 3 things:

Topic sentence as first sentence of the paragraph. The format is=topic+reason

Provide evidence for the reason in supporting sentences. This evidence should be quoted or paraphrased with in-text citations.

Explain your evidence. You comment on your evidence for your reader. You explain how it backs up your reason.

Paragraph 5: Conclusion

Your conclusion does 3 things.

Restate your thesis in a new way.

Explain what your proposal will accomplish. This is speculation, an educated guess, of course. But based on what you have proposed and your reasons for it, explain how your proposal will help in some fashion. Again, it won’t solve everything. Be specific.

End your conclusion with some strategy: ask a question or sound a call to action.

After your conclusion, starting on a new page, you will write your works cited page. You will list your sources in alphabetical order, in MLA format.

To assist you in writing Essay 4 review the following pages in Everyone’s An Author:

pages 371-404 on “Making a Proposal”

pages 86-88, “Summarizing”

Chapters 26 on “Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing”

Chapter 27 on “Giving Credit and Avoiding Plagiarism”

Chapter 28 on “MLA Style”

Also, for MLA format of a paper, including how to do your heading, etc., consult the MLA module in the resources section of the class.