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ENGL 1302
Melton
ESSAY 3: Persuasive Research Essay
Rough Draft Due Wednesday 11/11 at 10pm
Due Monday 11/16 at 10pm
4-6 pages
Over the first nine weeks of the semester we have learned to read, analyze, interpret, and evaluate a number
of different texts from different kinds of media and genres (films, TV shows, advertisements, essays, video
games, songs, etc.), all with the goal of better understanding not only how to uncover the authors’ intended
main messages but also how to think carefully about the ways authors construct their texts to convey multiple
meanings to specific audiences in specific situations.
For your final individual essay of the term, you will draw upon all of the rhetorical and analytical skills you’ve
learned over the course of the semester to argue a position about a specific topic or issue that is important
and/or interesting to you, synthesizing a number of different outside sources to strengthen your position.
You will do so by first identifying one issue or topic that you can take a position on and make a reasonable
claim about (see below for advice on picking a topic); second, forming a research question that will guide your
work and help you to gather sources and hone your position; and finally making a persuasive argument about
a particular aspect of the issue you’ve chosen. Your essay may briefly outline the issue on a broad scale, but it
should ultimately focus on the specific argument about that issue that you want to make.
You will complete this essay in stages:
1) By Monday 11/2, post a one- or two-paragraph proposal that identifies and briefly describes the
issue you would like to research, indicating your initial plan for the focus of your essay and including
a picture or video that represents your issue.
2) By Monday 11/9, find at least two sources that you believe will help you to strengthen your
position and narrow your focus on the issue you’ve chosen and post an MLA Works Cited page
listing the sources you’ve found so far and a short (one or two paragraph) write-up that explains
how those sources help you to answer your research question.
3) On Wednesday 11/11 post the rough draft of your essay.
4) By Friday 11/13 complete the peer revision exercise for your classmates’ rough draft.
5) On Monday 11/16, your final draft is due.
Length: 4-6 pages followed by a Works Cited page in MLA format. You must use at least three sources
including at least one written text and one media text. At this point in the semester, your essays should
be grammatically correct and logically sound and should feature powerful and appropriate rhetorical choices.
Advice on picking a topic:
Ideally, your final individual essay will be an extension of the work you’ve done so far on the Media Analysis
and the Textual Analysis essays. Think carefully about the texts you analyzed in your first two essays. What
drew you to them? Do their topics, ideas, or arguments overlap in any way? Do they relate in any way to
your keyword? Try to synthesize the work you’ve done so far into one strong research question about a
specific topic.
Remember that a good argument essay needs to be based on one solid argumentative main claim and
should contain plenty of strong evidence in support of that claim. The secondary sources you use will almost
certainly function as that kind of evidence. For example, if I were to write an essay arguing that the
Southwestern United States is often unfairly portrayed as a wild, rugged, and dangerous place, I could use
specific scenes from No Country for Old Men, excerpts from the novel Lonesome Dove, and a recent article
describing the urbanization of West Texas in support of that claim. Each of these sources would provide
different but important evidence that not only furthers my argument but also keeps the reader interested and
invested in the essay.
Finally, Chapter 16 in Everything’s an Argument explains fairly well the type of essay you’re working on here,
though you have more freedom in the type of sources you use and the tone you use. In other words, you
needn’t, as the textbook suggests, rely entirely on “academic sources” for this essay nor must you use a “stiff”
or “overly formal” tone. Craft your ethos/writerly voice as you see fit. Still, I recommend reading that chapter
carefully to make sure you’re on the right track conceptually.
ENGL 1302
Melton
ESSAY 3: Persuasive Research Essay
Rough Draft Due Wednesday 11/11 at 10pm
Due Monday 11/16 at 10pm
4-6 pages
Over the first nine weeks of the semester we have learned to read, analyze, interpret, and evaluate a number
of different texts from different kinds of media and genres (films, TV shows, advertisements, essays, video
games, songs, etc.), all with the goal of better understanding not only how to uncover the authors’ intended
main messages but also how to think carefully about the ways authors construct their texts to convey multiple
meanings to specific audiences in specific situations.
For your final individual essay of the term, you will draw upon all of the rhetorical and analytical skills you’ve
learned over the course of the semester to argue a position about a specific topic or issue that is important
and/or interesting to you, synthesizing a number of different outside sources to strengthen your position.
You will do so by first identifying one issue or topic that you can take a position on and make a reasonable
claim about (see below for advice on picking a topic); second, forming a research question that will guide your
work and help you to gather sources and hone your position; and finally making a persuasive argument about
a particular aspect of the issue you’ve chosen. Your essay may briefly outline the issue on a broad scale, but it
should ultimately focus on the specific argument about that issue that you want to make.
You will complete this essay in stages:
1) By Monday 11/2, post a one- or two-paragraph proposal that identifies and briefly describes the
issue you would like to research, indicating your initial plan for the focus of your essay and including
a picture or video that represents your issue.
2) By Monday 11/9, find at least two sources that you believe will help you to strengthen your
position and narrow your focus on the issue you’ve chosen and post an MLA Works Cited page
listing the sources you’ve found so far and a short (one or two paragraph) write-up that explains
how those sources help you to answer your research question.
3) On Wednesday 11/11 post the rough draft of your essay.
4) By Friday 11/13 complete the peer revision exercise for your classmates’ rough draft.
5) On Monday 11/16, your final draft is due.
Length: 4-6 pages followed by a Works Cited page in MLA format. You must use at least three sources
including at least one written text and one media text. At this point in the semester, your essays should
be grammatically correct and logically sound and should feature powerful and appropriate rhetorical choices.
Advice on picking a topic:
Ideally, your final individual essay will be an extension of the work you’ve done so far on the Media Analysis
and the Textual Analysis essays. Think carefully about the texts you analyzed in your first two essays. What
drew you to them? Do their topics, ideas, or arguments overlap in any way? Do they relate in any way to
your keyword? Try to synthesize the work you’ve done so far into one strong research question about a
specific topic.
Remember that a good argument essay needs to be based on one solid argumentative main claim and
should contain plenty of strong evidence in support of that claim. The secondary sources you use will almost
certainly function as that kind of evidence. For example, if I were to write an essay arguing that the
Southwestern United States is often unfairly portrayed as a wild, rugged, and dangerous place, I could use
specific scenes from No Country for Old Men, excerpts from the novel Lonesome Dove, and a recent article
describing the urbanization of West Texas in support of that claim. Each of these sources would provide
different but important evidence that not only furthers my argument but also keeps the reader interested and
invested in the essay.
Finally, Chapter 16 in Everything’s an Argument explains fairly well the type of essay you’re working on here,
though you have more freedom in the type of sources you use and the tone you use. In other words, you
needn’t, as the textbook suggests, rely entirely on “academic sources” for this essay nor must you use a “stiff”
or “overly formal” tone. Craft your ethos/writerly voice as you see fit. Still, I recommend reading that chapter
carefully to make sure you’re on the right track conceptually.
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