Week 12: Chapter 13

In this module, you will begin doing research for your position argument/argumentative research essays. You will find at least five sources and complete a research log with your findings. This module includes a lot of information regarding how to do effective research and how to track your sources. Additionally, you will select someone to interview for your passion project and develop the interview questions. You will also review how to use sentence structure to write clearer and more effective sentences.

Unit Learning Objectives

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Locate and evaluate primary and secondary research materials, including journal articles and essays, books, scholarly and professionally established and maintained databases or archives, and informal electronic networks and Internet sources.
Practice and apply strategies such as interpretation, synthesis, response, and critique to compose texts that integrate the writer’s ideas with those from appropriate sources.
Apply methods and technologies commonly used for research and communication in various fields.
Apply self-editing techniques to improve the grammatical accuracy and clarity of writing, especially as related to sentence structure.

Tasks to Complete in this Module

Complete W12 Argumentative Research Essay Research Log
Complete W12 Interview Assignment Part 1
Complete W12 Clear and Effective Sentences Practice
Complete the Week 12 Check Your Knowledge Quiz.

Research Process: Accessing and Recording Information

Welcome to Week 12t! In the last module, you learned about the importance of integrating evidence and counterarguments into your position argument/argumentative research essays.

Objectives for Week 12

This module will ask you to learn more about doing research to find evidence. You will find, evaluate, and select evidence from various sources to use in your paper and begin to consider how the evidence you have found supports or challenges your working thesis. In this module, you will also continue to work on self-editing by focusing on using sentence structure to write clearer and more effective sentences.

In this module, you are building knowledge that will help you meet the following Student Learning Outcomes for EMLS 10:

Read, analyze, and respond to a representative sampling of academic genres across the curriculum with consideration of context, audience, purpose, and culturally-bound references.
Self-edit for common second language errors such as verb usage, word forms, and sentence boundaries.
Competently integrate multiple text sources for the purpose of developing a written argument,
analysis, or interpretation.
Locate, read, evaluate, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary sources, incorporating
them into written essays using appropriate documentation.
Comprehend and use vocabulary from the Academic Word List.

To successfully complete this module, you will need to:

Complete W12 Argumentative Research Essay Research Log
Complete W12 Interview Assignment Part 1
Complete W12 Clear and Effective Sentences Practice
Complete the Week 12 Check Your Knowledge Quiz.

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