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Junior Research Paper 2015
For AP English Language
All students in AP English Language will complete this assignment. Completion with a grade of C or higher is required to pass the course. The due date is February 11; however papers will accepted without penalty until Feb. 13. If you know you will be absent on Feb. 13 make sure you turn in the paper early. If you have an unexpected absence, submit the paper on line and email your teacher. Except for the most dire emergencies, no late papers will be accepted for credit, although students who miss the final deadline must still complete the paper to at least C quality in order to be eligible for course credit.
Outstanding papers will be submitted to the College Board’s essay contest.
https://www.collegeboard.org/writing-prize/theme
Essay must be 1,600-2,000 words, including header and work cited page. Essay should be tightly edited to eliminate wordiness, overlong quotations and other verbal padding. Papers that do not meet the minimum word count will be severely penalized.
The goals of this assignment are to help you:
Essay must:
To accomplish this, students must:
On a more specific level. Your essay must:
Research
Outline:
Rhetorical analysis essay:
You write an AP style rhetorical analysis of a section of the document. Your essay will be about 800-900 words and will focus on close reading of how the writer uses language without deep consideration of historical context. You will use this in your essay, but you must revise it to serve the new purpose of your final research paper. Do not just copy and paste.
Deadlines:
January 6-9:
OR
Junior Research Paper 2015
For AP English Language
All students in AP English Language will complete this assignment. Completion with a grade of C or higher is required to pass the course. The due date is February 11; however papers will accepted without penalty until Feb. 13. If you know you will be absent on Feb. 13 make sure you turn in the paper early. If you have an unexpected absence, submit the paper on line and email your teacher. Except for the most dire emergencies, no late papers will be accepted for credit, although students who miss the final deadline must still complete the paper to at least C quality in order to be eligible for course credit.
Outstanding papers will be submitted to the College Board’s essay contest.
https://www.collegeboard.org/writing-prize/theme
Essay must be 1,600-2,000 words, including header and work cited page. Essay should be tightly edited to eliminate wordiness, overlong quotations and other verbal padding. Papers that do not meet the minimum word count will be severely penalized.
The goals of this assignment are to help you:
- Become more knowledgeable about history and research skills by finding and using varied research sources in further develop your critical thinking skills and back up your points with evidence.
- Become more adept at synthesizing information and developing informed views.
- Discipline yourself to follow a scholarly research format to document in-text sources and a reference page (bibliography).
- Compose a well organized, clear, concise, research paper to expand your knowledge on history and rhetoric.
Essay must:
- Analyze the author’s language choices and how they relate to his or her purpose for writing;
- Analyze the intent, meaning, or cultural impact of the work; and
- Connect the document, your analysis of it, and your community or personal experiences.
To accomplish this, students must:
- Due a close reading and rhetorical analysis of the document
- Research the life of the speaker
- Research the setting (time, place and occasion of the speech or document)
- Investigate the intended audience
- Investigate the immediate effect of the document
- Connect the document to your own life and our times
On a more specific level. Your essay must:
- Be argumentative
- Begin with an attention getting introduction
- Have an argumentative thesis statement at the end of the introduction
- Have well developed body paragraphs (at least eight sentences, often more)
- Weave quotations and skillful paraphrasing into body paragraphs that demonstrate your understanding of the document and the research you did on its context. Generally this means at least two well chosen, well woven-in, and properly cited (MLA) quotations per paragraph. You need have only one quotation in the final paragraph on connecting the document to your life/times.
- Include your own original analysis and commentary with evidence.
- Cite all evidence (paraphrase or direct quotation) using MLA format. Failure to cite is plagiarism and any incident whatsoever will result in a failing grade.
- Include analysis from close reading mixed with broader historical research.
- End with a brief conclusion that sums up your argument, connects to your opening and leaves a strong impression
- Have clear organization. Avoid a formulaic construction and use effective transitions between paragraphs.
- Be well edited for style, clarity and strength of argument and well proofread to avoid distracting errors.
Research
- You must create an annotated bibliography of six sources plus the document
- Annotated bibliography will include MLA entry for source and the following information:
- Where and how you found the source
- A three-six sentence summary of the contents
- One to two sentences on credibility
- A one-two sentence reflection on the value of the material to your project
- You must include five sources including the document in your paper
- Your sources must include at least two books (not counting encyclopedias or similar general reference and pop history books)
- Your sources must include at least one journal
- You are encouraged to use a primary source in addition to the document
- You are encouraged to use Wikipedia and encyclopedias and general reference books to begin your research, but because this is a research paper you cannot use these at sources. (Looking at Wikipedia is useful but not really research.)
- Your grade for your paper and Annotated Bibliography will in part reflect the quality of your sources
Outline:
- You must prepare a preliminary outline with thesis statement, topic sentences and key points
- You must prepare a final outline to be handed in with your paper
Rhetorical analysis essay:
You write an AP style rhetorical analysis of a section of the document. Your essay will be about 800-900 words and will focus on close reading of how the writer uses language without deep consideration of historical context. You will use this in your essay, but you must revise it to serve the new purpose of your final research paper. Do not just copy and paste.
Deadlines:
January 6-9:
- Topic Selection
- Rhetorical analysis mark up of document (mark up, Joliffe Framework, 1 page summary, statement of authors purpose, look up all words you don’t know)
- 1 page on context (paraphrase of history book, wikipedia etc is OK at this point)
- Rough draft or Rhetorical analysis paper for peer editing
- Research notes 1 (15 note cards or equivalent)
- Rough of Annotated Bib (at least four items with write ups).
- Final draft of rhetorical analysis essay (in class and turnitin for MM).
- Final Annotated Bib (in class and turnitin for MM),
- Research notes 1 (15 note cards or equivalent)
- Rough intro with thesis
- Rough outline (topic sentence format)
- Note cards 2 (15 additional note cards or equivalent). Note you are encouraged to do more note cards, but only 30 total will be checked.
- First body paragraph
- Revised outline
- Revised first paragraph + second body paragraph
- All of paper except final part (person/community) conclusion, work cited
- Complete paper with work cited page is due in class. This paper is so good you could turn it in.
- Paper is due in class and to turnitin. Not late papers accepted.
- John Winthrop’s “A Modell of Christian Charity” sermon
- Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” sermon (1741)
- Abigail Adams’s “Remember the Ladies” letter (1776)
- Thomas Paine’s “Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs,” from Common Sense (1776)
- James Madison’s Federalist No. 10 (1787)
- George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848, principal writer Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
- Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech (1858)
- Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address (1865)
- Andrew Carnegie’s “Wealth” essay (1889)
- Frederick Jackson Turner’s “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” essay (1893)
- Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech (1895)
- William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech (1896)
- Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points speech (1918)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address (1933)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” address to Congress (1941)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address (1961)
- John F. Kennedy’s inauguration address (1961)
- Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963)
- Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech (1963)
- Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech (1964)
- Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” speech (1964)
- Ronald Reagan’s address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)
- George W. Bush’s address to the nation on September 11, 2001
OR
- Richard Milhous Nixon "Checkers"
- Huey Long "Every Man a King"
- Susan B. Anthony “Constitutional Argument: Speech After Being Convicted Of Voting In The 1872 Presidential Election”
- Ernie Pyle “D-Day: A Pure Miracle” (newspaper column)
- Leonard Pitts Jr. “We’ll Go Forward From This Moment” (newspaper column)
- H. L. Mencken “Scope Monkey Trial” (newspaper column)
- Eugen Paterson “A Flower for the Graves” (newspaper column)
- See your teacher for additional choices. Great American Speeches is a great place to look.