Prepare: Locate and open your Week 3 Final Paper Framework Guide that you completed last week. Review the Week 5 Voting final paper and Writing Your Paper: Organizing Your Paper Around an Argument and a Thesis Statement Download Writing Your Paper: Organizing Your Paper Around an Argument and a Thesis Statement document.
Reflect: Review the introduction and thesis that you wrote in your Week 3 Final Paper Framework assignment. Consider how you might improve on it. After reviewing the Writing Your Paper: Organizing Your Paper Around an Argument and a Thesis Statement, think about how you can use your thesis to help you write the body paragraphs of your paper.
Write:
Write a working rough draft of your Week 5 Voting final paper. It must consist of
- A draft of your introduction and thesis statement that you developed last week.
- At least two body paragraphs that address your first subtopic.
You may complete more than this—the more you complete, the more feedback you will receive—but you need at least three full paragraphs at this point.
Draw on the work that you did in your Week 3 Final Paper Frameworkassignment to develop your rough draft. The Writing Your Paper: Organizing Your Paper Around an Argument and a Thesis Statement Download Writing Your Paper: Organizing Your Paper Around an Argument and a Thesis Statementas well as Topic Sentences Links to an external site.shows how to use your thesis to create topic sentences, which you will then expand into paragraphs. Use in-text citations in your paragraphs to provide evidence to support your points (see Quoting, Paraphrasing, & Summarizing Links to an external site.for assistance).
