The Effects of Obesity in Georgia
Unit Two Essay: “Heroically Arguing for Your Cause” Your community, city, county, or Georgia in general needs help. Write a formal persuasive essay with research to gain support from the people in your community for your cause. Focus/Purpose: To persuade (Who will support your cause? Who will oppose it? How will more data convince them to help?) Content and Support: 6 paragraphs, minimum. Establish your argument and support it with 4 sources within 600-700 words. Address the needs of your entire audience by including content for those who already support your view and countering the arguments made by those who oppose your view. Idea Organization: Each paragraph must have a topic sentence and supporting details appropriate for the persuasive format. In addition, each paragraph must have one (1) direct quote or paraphrase from a source. Style: Academic, formal paragraph and sentence structure. 3rd person is required. The diction and tone will depend on the narrowed, arguable, thesis. Format/Essay Conventions: The essay must meet all of the requirements for standard introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs in a persuasive structure. MLA: The heading, page formatting, in-text citations, and works cited list must conform to the 8th edition of MLA format. Research Requirements: This essay requires 4 sources. 2 sources must be from GIL or GALILEO. The other 2 can be from academically appropriate websites that give credit to authors by name, and these authors must be experts in a field related to your thesis. No additional sources are permitted. You may use direct quotes or paraphrases within your essay. The in-text citations must include an introduction to your research and parenthetical documentation after your research. No paragraph should contain more than 10-15% research. Your Works Cited list must have full citations for each source. This does not count towards your word count. All research within the essay’s paragraphs and on the works cited list must conform to the 8th edition of MLA format.
