Write an analysis of a subject that is directly related to higher education and that you have not already written about this semester. The textbook discusses several types of analyses; you may choose from the following kinds of analysis:
Causal analysis:
Instructional or informative process analysis
Data analysis
Purpose: Keep in mind that you are writing in an academic context, so your purpose is to share knowledge and build understanding.
Audience: Your classmates and I are your readers, but write your analysis in a way that would make it useful to a broad readership in the academic community. Imagine that you are writing for a journal read by college undergraduates across the nation. Keep this audience in mind as you choose your subject and explain your findings and observations.
Stay on topic. Your essay must remain engaged with a topic that is directly related to higher education.
Give your paper a meaningful title that forecasts the content of the paper.
State your central idea or point explicitly in the introduction, on the first page of the essay.
Connect your central idea to an ongoing conversation or a recent event.
Cite and document all sources that you use according to MLA 8th Edition. Cite information that is not common knowledge and when you use someone else’s ideas, arguments, language, or other materials. See EA chapter 27 for guidance crediting sources and avoiding plagiarism.
To connect the point of your essay to a broader ongoing conversation, you must locate, evaluate, and integrate at least three sources that are appropriate for college-level writing. Your project will probably require much more additional research in order to discuss your subject with the expected focus and depth. Assigned readings, other course materials, and readings from the textbook do not count toward your minimum; however, you may cite and discuss these sources in your essay.
Include your list of works cited at the end of your essay. Each source appearing in your works cited list must be cited in the body of your essay with a signal phrase and/or parenthetical in-text citation that points unambiguously back to the entry in your works cited list. See EA chapter 28 for guidance on writing in-text documentation and preparing your list of works cited.
Ensure the length of your paper is at least 1800 words, not counting the list of works cited.
Format your paper according to MLA 8th Edition. See EA chapter 28 for guidance on formatting a research paper
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