The assignment is below.
English
101/Professor Meyer
Paper
#3: Issues in Labor Research Paper
Due
Dates: Annotated Bibliography, Monday,
May 11th
Rough Draft, Peer Edit
Workshop, Wednesday, May 20th
Final Draft, Wednesday,
May 27th
Essay Topic: Your third paper
builds off of the work we did in paper #2, but this time you have some
additional choice. You will choose a profession you are interested in pursuing
(police work, education, nursing, physical therapist, etc.), research that
profession, and write a paper describing that career and analyzing one or two
of its significant labor issues. This is a way to inform yourself about both
the possibilities of your potential future career, but also the potential
hazards. Like paper #2, you should look into what kind of pay and benefits
workers do or do not receive, possibilities for promotion and advancement, and how
workers in this industry are exploited, what dangers they may face of the job, groups
traditionally discriminated against, etc. You might also look into issues we
have not yet covered, such as hiring practices, formal training, etc. This
will culminate in an essay that uses your research to put forth an analysis of
that profession and the related labor practices and that supports your analysis
with the sources you have found.
Essay Goal: This assignment will
allow you to practice research skills, the incorporation of secondary sources,
correct citation, and other skills useful to future college writing assignments.
Your final product will showcase your ability to develop your own argument,
find reliable and accurate sources for that argument, select effective and
useful evidence from those sources, and to incorporate the writing skills we
have practiced all semester.
Different Parts of the Essay Assignment:
Background
Information: You essay should include relevant information
about your job and its overall career path. You should describe your interests
and important facts about the job.
Labor
Issues: You will need to discuss the potential labor
issues related to your career path. These will be found during the research
process and where you will use much of your secondary sources.
Argument:
Because this paper has multiple parts, your thesis
may not be located early on in the paper. But as you specifically discuss the
labor issues of your career, you should express a clear opinion about the
consequences of those issues, ways they can be changed, how they affect you,
etc.
Summary, paraphrase, and
quotation: This
material will come from the readings you discuss and should be accurate,
directly related to your essay topic and thesis, and formatted correctly.
MLA Format: Your paper title,
use of sources, and “Works Cited” page must all be in MLA format. We will
discuss and practice this in class. The
library also has online guides and assistance on MLA format here: http://library.laguardia.edu/research/cite
Secondary Sources and
Analysis: Your paper will need to include three or more secondary sources from
different genres (book, newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.) that meet the
expectations we will discuss in class. These sources should relate directly and
thoughtfully to your topic and thesis and will need to be incorporated into
your essay in correct MLA format (which we will practice in class). To help you with this, you will submit an
“annotated bibliography” on Monday, May 11th. Look at the assignment
sheet for expectations.
Formal
Expectations:
§ 4-5 pages (800+ words)
§ Typed, double spaced,
12pt font
§ Use of three or more
unique sources as part of your research
§ All work (first and final
drafts, and the source analysis paper) must be on time or will be graded down
§ Paper in MLA format,
including a correctly formatted Works Cited page (doesn’t count towards page
expectations)
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