Argumentative Essay Project Overview For this assignment, you will apply sociolo

Argumentative Essay Project
Overview
For this assignment, you will apply sociological analysis to a course-related topic of your choice, integrating critical terms from the course and peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles.
Paraphrase or summarize using your own words and cite the source.
Provide an ASA Style in-text citation for any source of information used for your essay (including course readings).
For example:
(Alba, Logan, and Stults 2000)
(Goss 2020)
Place in-text citations inside of the sentence and before the period.
Include a corresponding ASA Style end-of-text reference for every cited source.
UC Berkeley’s tips for thesis construction.
For introduction help, refer to Scribbr’s guide for writing an essay introduction.
Literature Review (3-5 paragraphs)
journals.
For each discussion:
Explain the author’s research process.
Do not discuss required readings in this section.
Paraphrase or summarize using your own words and cite the source.
Do not state the author’s university affiliation.
Note: magazine articles, newspaper articles, Wikipedia entries, blog posts, conference papers, institutional reports, dissertations, theses, and similar documents are not peer-reviewed, though you should use and cite them as sources when necessary to contextualize your discussion.
Explain how your peer-reviewed articles’ findings, results, arguments, and/or conclusions support your argumentative thesis.
ASA Style in-text citation for any source of information used for your essay (including course readings).
For example:
(Alba, Logan, and Stults 2000)
(Goss 2020)
Place in-text citations inside of the sentence and before the period.
Include a corresponding ASA Style end-of-text reference for every cited source.
GSU’s library guide for sociology, CSUB’s literature review visualization tool, and Owlcation’s guide for summarizing articles.
Exposition (4-8 paragraphs)
Restate your argumentative thesis statement (i.e., a proposed relationship between your key terms and your specific topical context).
paraphrase or summarize using your own words and cite the source.
Provide an ASA Style in-text citation for any source of information used for your essay (including course readings).
For example:
(Alba, Logan, and Stults 2000)
(Goss 2020)
Place in-text citations inside of the sentence and before the period.
Include a corresponding ASA Style end-of-text reference for every cited source.
Conclusion (1 paragraph)
Synthesize the information presented in the body of the essay.
Reiterate your argumentative thesis and its primary supporting points.
Present a more complex understanding of the topic than presented in your introduction.
Demonstrate that you have processed ideas presented earlier and cultivated a significance more significant than the sum of its parts.
Explain, demonstrate, illustrate, and/or exemplify at least two possible implications or applications for your argumentative thesis.
Discuss the future of the topic in your life, your communities, academe, and/or society-at-large.
Do not quote; instead, paraphrase or summarize using your own words and cite the source.
Provide an ASA Style in-text citation for any source of information used for your essay (including course readings).
For example:
(Alba, Logan, and Stults 2000)
(Goss 2020)
Place in-text citations inside of the sentence and before the period.
Include a corresponding ASA Style end-of-text reference for every cited source.
UNCC’s guide for writing conclusions.
References
Provide an ASA Style end-of-text reference for any source of information used for your essay (including course readings).
For example:
Alba, Richard, John R. Logan, and Brian J. Stults. 2000. “The Changing Neighborhood Contexts of the Immigrant Metropolis.” Social Forces 79(2):587-621.
Goss, Desmond. 2020. “The Knees: Race, Gender, and Embodiment in the Lyrics of Megan Thee Stallion.” Journal of Pop Culture 21(3):12-29.
Every reference should have at least one corresponding ASA Style in-text citation.
For reference help, refer to GSU library’s plagiarism guide.
Format
Follow all format guidelines detailed in the syllabus.
Tab or indent the first line of every paragraph.
Limit each paragraph to a discussion of one general idea.
Construct paragraphs using 5-7 sentences that posit, support, elaborate, or illustrate the paragraph’s main idea.
Link each paragraph, however indirectly, to your thesis.
Lead each section of the essay with the following headings (in all caps): INTRODUCTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; EXPOSITION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.
First-person point-of-view as much as possible.