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How is the Earth being compromised by greenhouse gasses and pollutants? How are these two changing the Earth? Be specific with some examples.

Do you believe that U.S. legislation over the the last 50 years has helped alleviate pollution issues? What could have been done better nationwide to alleviate more pollution? Think about the way Americans travel (e.g. cars).

In you opinion, what else can be done worldwide to lessen greenhouse gas emissions? Is the Earths fate questionable because the problem is irreversible? Be specific and creative with your answers.

These are the order of the questions that need to be answered.

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You additionally need to include a cover letter, addressed to me and roughly one page long addressing your process for writing the final draft, any challenges you faced in researching or writing about your topic, any successes you faced in researching and writing the final draft and the most important thing you feel you learned in researching and writing your term paper.

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Your term paper will be graded on two distinct but equally important points.

Content: How interesting and informed are your ideas? Is this paper a book report (bad) or your own original thinking, supported by ideas you have read and researched (good)? How well have you expressed those ideas? How thoroughly did you research your topic? Did you respond to suggestions on previous drafts and incorporate needed updates?
Presentation: Is the paper clear, concise, easy to follow and well-edited? Are there spelling or grammar mistakes? Is the paper well-written? Did you respond to suggestions on previous drafts and incorporate needed updates?
Make sure you have checked everything off on the formatting checklist before turning in your final draft. Term Paper Formatting Checklist Preview the document

Finally, have you uploaded your data files? If you are writing a data paper you need to submit your raw data files under the Term Paper Data assignment. If you are writing a curated literature review you do not have data to submit and thus may skip this step.

You additionally need to include a cover letter, addressed to me and roughly one page long addressing your process for writing the rough draft, any challenges you faced in researching or writing about your topic, any successes you faced in researching and writing the final draft and your overview of he entire research process.

Here are some sample final papers to see an overall A level paper. Please do not distribute or cite as these are working papers and the property of the authors.

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ENG 1113 Common Assignment: Synthesis Essay

Assignment Objectives:

This assignment provides students the opportunity to demonstrate all of the skills emphasized in the course (as represented by the five Student Learning Outcomes): asserting and developing a thesis, accurately interpreting and appropriately addressing a specific rhetorical situation, effectively integrating sources with original writing, editing to eliminate errors, and applying the writing process.

The Rhetorical Situation:

The genre is essay, and the audience is academic.

To effectively respond to the assignment, your writing should follow the conventions and expectations for academic essays.

First of all, your overall point and your development of that point should be based in evidence that is clearly presented and documented.  The evidence you provide should favor appeals to reason over appeals to emotion. With this in mind, you should avoid long personal narratives, anecdotes, and abstract or hypothetical situations that are not convincing to an academic audience.

Secondly, your word choice and tone should be formal. This means that you should not use slang, jargon, and other informal expressions. Unless your instructor tells you otherwise, first person (“I, me, my”) and second person (“you, your”) should probably be avoided.

The purpose is to synthesize.

For the assignment, you will carefully read multiple texts on a common issue or topic. Your challenge is to synthesize them for your reader. The key goal of synthesis writing is to explain how the sources relate to one another, to make the connections and distinctions among them clear to the reader. Because synthesis requires this, complete and critical reading of each source is essential.

In other words, synthesis writing goes beyond using sources to support the writer’s point to explain how the sources relate to one another in terms of common ground, points of disagreement, angle of focus on the topic, attention given to various aspects of the topic, effectiveness of analysis or arguments, etc.

Basic Requirements

Required Length in Words: 800-1000

Number of Sources: 2-4 (provided by the instructor, all of which are text-based)

Documentation Style Required: Current MLA Style

For instructor-specific topics, sources, and additional requirements, see the section(s) below.

Options for Topics & Sources:

Assignment Details: For your synthesis, you will need to select one of the following two topics from the Librarys Opposing Viewpoints database: Social Media or Black Lives Matter.

-After you select one of those two topics, you will then need to read the background/context information for the topic that is available on the topic main page.

-Next, you will need to read the articles that are listed under Featured Viewpoints. These are the articles that you are allowed to use in your synthesis essay. You must include at least two of the Featured Viewpoints, or Viewpoints article articles in your synthesis. You may use up to three of the listed articles.

The Featured Viewpoints articles for “Black Lives Matter” are:

“Tiffany Cuban and the New Democrats”
“Black Lives Matter. Do Elections?”
“Empathize with your Political Foe”
“All Lives Matter” Disregards Race Bases Inequality”
-In addition, to the viewpoint articles that you select, you should include information from the background/introduction to the issue information that is available on the issue main page. This information will need to be cited and will not count towards your two source minimum.

-You may not use any other sources than what are listed on this assignment details page. This includes other information found on the Opposing Viewpoints database beyond the articles listed and background information page.

-You are required to use MLA format for your paper.

-The final draft must include a Works Cited list documenting the sources that were cited in the paper.

Citations from these sources should consist of a mixture of a direct quote, paraphrase, and/or short summary.
No more than 1 long block quote may be used; any block quote that is used may not exceed 6 lines in length.
The Works Cited page will not count as part of your word count. It is a required page in addition to the word requirement.

your essay should be written in this order:

1. Introductory paragraph employing the lead-in, tie-in and thesis statement model.
2. Background information paragraph.
3. Synthesis paragraph
4. Synthesis paragraph
5. Conclusion deciding which reading was able to get its point across better and why.