The culminating experience in this class will be writing your final essay. Choose one of the essays you wrote this semester to revise for this assignment. Your finished essay will be 4-6 typewritten pages. This finished essay will be your finest academic argument this semester! Consider all of the tools we have used this semester and select the ones that will help you prepare the final essay.
The authors of the most successful final argument essays will:
1. revise a previous essay written this semester.
2. use a variety of appropriate sources without plagiarizing and document
them carefully in MLA style.
3. clearly articulate an argument claim and support it with a variety
of reasons and grounds.
4. back up any warrants that require backing.
5. charitably consider a wide variety of conditions of rebuttal and
respond to each persuasively.
6. organize the essay logically and appropriately for the target audience.
7. proofread scrupulously to avoid all grammatical and mechanical errors.