{"coupon":"WordAce1","discount":13.5,"doc_name":"reserach paper","doc_id":67843,"editorId":"144","email":"liminjing0405@163.com","message":"<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Researchers Make Claims:<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For this project, you will research a topic of your choice, find sufficient and relevant information on your topic, and develop and support a claim&nbsp;about that topic. Your final research paper will&nbsp;advance a significant, specific, and complex claim about your topic. This paper research paper must be&nbsp;argumentative, analytical, or interpretive: you must make a claim for how we, as readers, should understand, think about, conceptualize, act upon, view, or question your topic. It may not be merely informational.<\/span><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Two Goals:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For this research paper, you will synthesize your research materials to accomplish two goals:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">One goal is to synthesize background information in order to answer the question: &ldquo;what information must my readers know in order to understand my topic in a meaningful way?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your research paper also takes a second step and analyzes the information in order to make an argumentative, analytical, or interpretive claim about that topic. Hence, you will also be synthesizing information in order to get readers to see that information and the topic <em>in a new and significant way<\/em>.<\/span><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Research is Evidence-Based:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">You may already have some ideas about your topic, either from preliminary research or from other classes or from your daily observations of the world around you. Remember that research is <strong>evidence-driven<\/strong>, which means that your final claim (your final conclusion about the topic) must come from what you learned <em>through<\/em> research. The process should be&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Read, interpret, and analyze evidence --&gt; come to a claim about the topic<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Not<\/em> this:<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Already have a claim about the topic --&gt; find evidence that supports it (this is called &ldquo;cherry-picking&rdquo;)<\/span><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Your paper will be evaluated on the following criteria:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your paper must have an argumentative,&nbsp;analytical, or interpretive claim.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your paper must be inspired by a human rights or social justice issue.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your claim, the ideas that support it, and your analysis must be grounded in your research evidence. You cannot make claims that are not supported with&nbsp;research&nbsp;evidence.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your topic should be defined specifically enough and narrow enough so that you can develop and support your claim significantly in 8-10 pages.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your paper must cite at least 8 sources. These may be primary or secondary sources or any combination of primary and secondary source material. Tertiary sources do not count (e.g. textbooks and encyclopedias).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">At least half of your sources should be scholarly. The rest should be sources that you have&nbsp;rigorously&nbsp;evaluated for credibility and reliability.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your paper must use academic language and reasoning, and must be well-organized.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Your paper must follow MLA guidelines for citing and documenting your sources.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Any plagiarism on this assignment will result in a grade of 0 on the paper and a&nbsp;failing grade in the course.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Final draft shows revision and development based on peer and instructor feedback.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Formatting Requirements<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">8-10 double-spaced pages (at least 8 <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">full<\/span>&nbsp;<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">pages)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">*2700-3300 words<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">8+ sources (at least half are scholarly)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">MLA in-text citations (footnotes optional but highly encouraged)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">MLA Works Cited Page (not included in the 8-10 pages)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">12-pt Times New Roman font<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">1-in margins<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">Heading, upper right-hand corner, single-spaced: Name, Date, Assignment Name<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">An interesting title!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">Name your document: &ldquo;YourFirstName_RP&rdquo;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">Please see the syllabus for this class&rsquo;s late and missing work policy<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">*I&rsquo;ve noticed that international or non-Microsoft versions of Word measure margins and spacing a bit differently. If you are using one of these versions, count your words to make sure you are reaching the required length.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Submission<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">All paper drafts and the final paper will be submitted online to our Canvas site. The final draft will be closed to submission after the due time. Finals that do not meet the page length or source requirements will lose significant points<\/span><\/p>","price_select":"1","temp_doc_name":"upload_5758f0b751a594.29231322.docx","word_count":"2500","subtotal":67.5,"total_amt":54,"firstName":"Jing","lastName":"Jing","lastfour":"6139","exp":"1018","address":"20050 15th AVe Ne","city":"seattle","zip":"98155","state":"wa","country":"United States","transactionReference":"8477737382"}