Assignment Details Style and format: MLA – both in-text and works cited entries

Assignment Details
Style and format: MLA – both in-text and works cited entries are required

Assignment Prompt
Up to this point, you have carefully gathered, evaluated, analyzed, summarized, assessed, and reflected upon your research sources. It is now time to begin drafting the research essay. This assignment will guide you through the planning and drafting processes for your research paper, and will allow you to receive instructor feedback before submitting the final draft of your research project.
Assignment Requirements
Section 1: Select a substantial portion of your research paper to draft and insert into the assignment. This could be anything: the introduction and following body paragraphs, the body paragraphs/support from which you are going to build the rest of the essay, or the last several paragraphs of your research paper including the conclusion. This section should be no less than 2 pages, not including the Works Cited page. Supporting evidence from at least 2 of your sources should be incorporated and properly documented both within the text and on the Works Cited page.
Section 2: After you have inserted the rough draft of your research paper, write a paragraph explaining what part of your research paper you are working with and what you hope the reader takes away from it.
Section 3: In a final paragraph, discuss what you are going to do in the writing and editing process to complete your research paper. You may want to anticipate the following questions in your discussion: What do I have left to write? How can I improve the drafted portion of my paper? What kind of information do I need to include to finalize the paper? Do I need more sources? How will I focus the remaining paragraphs?
The goal of this assignment is to allow you to begin drafting the research paper in a meaningful way so that the final product is as complete and polished as possible.
Rules for formal and academic writing apply to the draft. (Note: First person point-of-view is allowed in the final two discussion paragraphs.)

Assignment 3 Checklist:
Before submitting the final version of this assignment, be sure your work includes:
A draft of a substantial portion of your research paper (at least 2 pages, not including the Works Cited page) (Section 1)Supporting evidence from at least 2 of your sources incorporated into the draft; sources should be documented both within the text and on a Works Cited page
An explanatory paragraph discussing the placement and purpose of the drafted material (Section 2)
A paragraph discussing direction for the rest of the essay (Section 3)