Your writing task: Write a convincing essay that makes and supports a claim on the topic of your choice, using and properly documenting your sources.
Size-12, Times New Roman, MLA format (separate Works Cited page).
Helpful Hints:
Demonstrate all that you have learned about academic writing this semester as you create and research your own topic. That means:
• coming up with your own arguable point, expressed clearly from the beginning ( in your thesis)
• knowing how to balance summary, analysis, and quotation
