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assignment
In this essay, you will synthesize information from two or three sources and integrate it for a specific writing purpose. You must have a clear thesis and you must support it with information from your sources. Choose one of the following assignments:
- Use at least two of the readings from chapter 1 of The Internet: Opposing Viewpoints to discuss some aspect of the affects of the Internet on society.
- Use at least two of the readings from chapter 4 of The Internet: Opposing Viewpoints to discuss some aspect of predictions about the Internet.
Your essay is to be written in a formal, academic style for a general, college-educated reader who may not have read the sources you are using for this essay. Therefore, you must provide enough background information about the sources and the topic you are writing about.
The best way to get a handle on what this essay type is supposed to be about is to look again at the sample "synthesis of multiple reading sources" essays linked to on the Sample CPN 101 Essays site (click on the "samples" link on the main course site). The main thing to take from what all of those essays do is that you should NOT just summarize and/or respond to articles from The Internet: Opposing Viewpoints in separate parts of your essay; the idea is to synthesize information from the articles along with your own experience, ideas and/or opinions to produce an original essay.
You should quote, paraphrase or summarize from your sources where appropriate and when you do so, use proper APA documentation. There is no strict requirement regarding the length of this essay, but your final draft of it should probably be approximately 750 words. A word count much lower or much higher than this number will be acceptable so long as the essay as a whole fulfills all of its other requirements.
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documentation
Your essay must have the following two main types of proper APA style documentation of your reading sources, and if there are significant problems with your documentation I will NOT accept your essay:
- APA style in-text parenthetical citations for any quotations or ideas taken from reading sources; see the APA formatting rules and examples on this page
- an APA References, separated from the end of the essay's last paragraph by a blank line (see the sample References on this page)
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submission
Follow these steps to submit your first and subsequent drafts of this essay:
Save your essay as a Microsoft Word 2007 file (on computers running Windows) or a Word 2008 file (on Macintosh computers) with the following specifications:
the file name should be your first and last name together with no space followed by "-1-1" (which indicates the first essay assignment, first draft); for example, JaneSmith-1-1.docx (.docx is the extension indicating a Word file which you will see only if your computer is set to show file extensions; to turn on the viewing of file extensions, see the instructions here if your computer’s operating system is Windows 7 or Vista, here if your OS is an earlier version of Windows or here if your computer runs Mac OS X) the essay must have an original title, separated from the first line of your first body paragraph by one blank line (hit the Enter or Return key once) the text must be single spaced the paragraphs do not need to be indented but must be separated from each other by one blank line (hit the Enter or Return key once) put the document in (in Word 2007 select this option in the group of the ribbon, and in Word 2008 just check Web Layout under the View menu)
At least 24 hours before the scheduled time of your conference, do steps A. and B.:
Submit your essay file to SafeAssign. (show the steps)
Log into myRedDragon by clicking on the "submit to SafeAssign" link that you’ll see in the pop-up menu when you roll over the "SafeAssign" link on our main course site. In myRedDragon, click on Student Online. On your Student Online page, click on My eLearning courses in the table The Cortland eLearning System. On your Course Schedule page, click on Writing Studies II on Computer. On the Writing Studies II - CPN-101-301 1 page, click on the SafeAssign icon or link.
On the SafeAssignments page, click on Submit here your first draft of multi-draft essay #1.
Under the *Submission: section of the Paper submission: Submit here your first draft of multi-draft essay #1 page, click on the Browse button to locate your essay file.
When the path to your file shows in the text box next to the Browse button, hit the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
1) If you signed up to do an online conference, send an e-mail to me with your essay file attached to the e-mail. Note: Not only should you put something in the Subject: line of your e-mail, but you must have some text, even if it's just your name, in the body of your message. My e-mail server is set up to filter out blank e-mails with file attachments since such attachments often contain malware, so if you don't include original text in your message I will not receive it. Then at the conference time you signed up for, participate in your online conference in one of the ways indicated on this page. After our conference, if it was conducted through text only, I will send you by e-mail a file containing a log of the conference which will include our discussion, my observations about the first draft of your essay and a temporary, working overall grade on this first multi-draft essay assignment; if our conference was through video, I will e-mail your file back to you with the comments, including the working grade, that I put on it during the conference. 2) If you signed up to do an in-person conference, send an e-mail to me with your essay file attached to the e-mail. Note: Not only should you put something in the Subject: line of your e-mail, but you must have some text, even if it's just your name, in the body of your message. My e-mail server is set up to filter out blank e-mails with file attachments since such attachments often contain malware, so if you don't include original text in your message body I will not receive it. Then at the conference time you signed up for, participate in your online conference in one of the ways indicated on this page. After our conference, I will e-mail your file back to you with the comments I put on it during our conference and the temporary, working overall grade on this first multi-draft essay assignment that I gave you at the end of your conference.
Based on my comments on this draft in either our conference transcript or your file itself (if you have trouble viewing the comments in your Word file, click here), revise your essay following the same directions as in steps 1. A.-E. above but with the following additional directions:
Delete any comments I had put in your document (either right-click on each individual comment "balloon" and select the "Delete Comment" option, or click anywhere in the comments pane and then on the Review ribbon click the arrow under the Delete button in the Comments section of the ribbon and then in the drop-down menu choose "Delete All Comments in Document"). Change the last "1" in the file name to a "2" to signify that this revision is your second draft, e.g., JaneSmith-1-2.docx. Spell-check your revision with these specific settings; if my Word 2007 shows a significant number of spelling errors in your revision, I will not accept it.
E-mail me your revised essay file as an attachment. Here are two important notes involving this:
You don't have to submit any of your revisions of this essay to SafeAssign unless I ask you to. Again, not only should you put something in the Subject: line of your e-mail, but you must have some text, even if it's just your name, in the body of your message. My e-mail server is set up to filter out blank e-mails with file attachments since such attachments often contain malware, so if you don't include original text in your message body I will not receive it.
I will put comments on your second draft file using Word's standard Comments feature and then I will return your file to you by e-mail. My comments may also include abbreviations from those listed on the last page of Universal Keys for Writers. And if any of my comments or symbols is preceded by "(and throughout:)" this means that there are other, unmarked instances of the same issue in your essay that you also need to address. You will also receive a working grade on this draft of your essay, and remember how I explain at item 1. under "Evaluation of Student Performance" on p. 5 of the course syllabus that the only grade that counts for this essay assignment is the highest one I give you on any draft of it that you submit (that is, if you get a really terrible working grade on your second or one of your earliest drafts, don't worry about it at all; that grade stays only if you don't revise it and send your revision to me for a higher grade).
We can repeat steps 3. through 5. as much as you’d like (just remember to change the last number in your file name to "3," "4" and so on, e.g., JaneSmith-1-3.docx, JaneSmith-1-4.docx) right up through May 17 until you are satisfied with a grade that you get on a draft of this essay.
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evaluation
Your essay will be graded based on the following checklist, which will be included in every draft of this assignment (except the first) returned to you:
Rhetorical Purpose: 20 points
- states a thesis that illuminates a significant subject and presents the writer’s conclusion regarding the relevant points among the sources (10)
- assimilates assorted facts and ideas into a coherent body of information (10)
Attention to Audience: 20 points
- provides necessary background information on topic/controversy (5)
- supplies background information on sources, including authors and titles (5)
- distinguishes personal ideas from those of the sources (5)
- tailors diction and sentence structure to audience and purpose (5)
Use of Source Material: 20 points
- supplies necessary documentation in APA format (7)
- includes appropriate amount of summary, paraphrase and/or quotation (7)
- weaves in source material smoothly (6)
Structure of Essay: 20 points
- contains identifiable thesis (5)
- uses logical organization (5)
- provides transitions between and within paragraphs (5)
- creates effective closure (5)
Conventions: 20 points
- uses appropriate punctuation (5)
- follows standard usage (5)
- uses correct spelling (5)
- maintains manuscript conventions (5)
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