Final Research Paper - Second Draft Assignment

Due Thursday, October 18, 2004

Eight complete pages, minimum
Seven sources minimum (one book, two scholarly articles, Nagel or O/W, no more than 2 web sources)
Hand in an updated Annotated Bibliography

Bring 3 copies to class

In this draft of your research project you want to make sure you’re developing most (or all) of the key ideas/points you’re working on in the essay.

You want to try to “reclaim your first draft” from your sources without losing sight of the work with sources.

- Be sure to address issues of textual engagement and organization your peers identified from your first draft.
- You also want to make sure you’re building on the synthesis (loops and inverted pyramids) that should already be in the first draft. Generally, people need to do much more work to make their “synthesis” elements more clear.
- Lastly, you need to insert your visual element. (Remember, synthesis here. Treat the visual as a text. It should be part of some sort of connection.)

Now is the time to try to get as much of your project together as you can. This way you can spend the next draft on issues of presentation.

Think of this assignment as an eight-page “synthesis with a purpose” assignment.