In unified and purposefully organized body paragraphs, carefully explain what each example reveals about the inequities and communities involved in your environmental issue.

Research-Supported Persuasive Essay
“Research-Supported Persuasive Essay” Purpose & Agenda:

Compose a persuasive essay that presents an original argument and that justifies its position through evidence culled from your research log entries.

Exigence & Message:

Your essay MUST present a unique argument based on the research topic that you used for the research log entries and infographics campaign.

Use the theories of intersectionality and community advanced in Patricia Hill Collins’s article “Social Inequality, Power, and Politics” to develop an argument about policy and environmental justice.

Against the contextual history of environmental justice presented in Robert Bullard’s “Introduction” to Environmental Health and Racial Inequality, your essay will evaluate logical and ethical claims and consider what the evidence, which you have collected from secondary research, reveals about the claims and your argument.

Constraints:

The essay must develop your argument by presenting examples to accurately illustrate the results of secondary research about the issue.

In unified and purposefully organized body paragraphs, carefully explain what each example reveals about the inequities and communities involved in your environmental issue.

Select relevant related secondary sources and additional contextual sources (Collins’s article provides your methodology)

Accurately and thoroughly present the evidence

Explain what each example reveals about the issue

State the reasoning that connects the evidence to a claim
Audience:

Assignment Requirements:
An original and engaging title suited to the essay’s contents
A research-supported argument based on your research log’s findings

Use of theoretical methods from Patricia Hill Collins’s article “Social Inequality, Power, and Politics”

Robert Bullard’s “Introduction” to Environmental Health and Racial Inequality

A clear topic statement argument advances a specific, substantial, unique, and arguable claim about the environmental issue and justice

Relevant evidence from your secondary research paraphrase AND quote from secondary sources.

In-text citations of at least 6 different credible contextual and related secondary (scholarly) sources that are relevant to the topic, argument, and audience expectations.

Presentation of evidence and development of argument should follow an effective argument model (e.g., classical, Toulmin, Pragma-Dialectic, or Rogerian) Considers audience

Careful and fair evaluation of at least two relevant and reasonable oppositions to your position

Respond to alternatives by offering either qualification or by finding common ground

A cohesive organizational structure that advances the argument an introduction, unified body paragraphs that are clearly related to your argument and follow a logical order, and a conclusion

Essay length: 5-7 double-spaced pages

Works Cited Page (MLA 8) (this does not “count” towards page count)

Meticulous proofreading, editing, and MLA 8 formatting

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