also you can choose another topic because the book talk about many issues.
Essay 2 Guidelines
I need worked cited page.
David K.Shipler notes in his New York Times review of Linda Tirado’s book Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America,
It’s rare to hear directly from the poor. Usually their voices are filtered through journalists or activists. So Tirado’s raw clarity is startling. It’s nice to imagine her ranting to a class of stunned M.B.A. candidates who are preparing to employ people like her; they would learn how denying dignity corrodes attitudes toward work and authority. In her world, medical practitioners are condescending and preachy, caseworkers are cruelly imperious, government systems are Kafkaesque and the downward spiral at the workplace is defeating. (“‘Hand to Mouth’ by Linda Tirado”)
On the other hand, Joanna Scutts observes,
Linda Tirado is angry, and she wants to make you angry, too. Even when her voice is calm and clear, lining up cold numbers and hard truths, it’s lit up by fury, ignited by the experience of being poor in the richest country in the world. Let me be clear (to use one of Tirado’s favorite turns of phrase): This is not a criticism. Given the story she has to tell, of injustice and indignity, it is remarkable that she, and the millions of other Americans living that story, aren’t angrier. (“The Poor Don’t Need Pity”)
Prompt:
Tirado’s book receives favorable receptions and reviews from critics; additionally, she adds to the general conversation of poverty in America. While she rejects that people in poverty should be hardly seen nor heard of and subserviently submit to the role of the ‘model’ poor person, she raises several issues that examine the reality of poverty in a blunt and focused manner. Select one specific ‘issue’ and create an argumentative thesis in reaction. In various body paragraphs support your thesis with exceptional topic sentences and evidence taking from the book as well as government or educational sites (.org or .edu only). Your discussion and analysis should not only explain the point but establish relevance. Furthermore, provide a fair and logical counter argument.
Steps:
1. Complete the pre-writing activities that are most helpful to you
2. Review all your annotations and Reading Group work
3. Conduct additional but limited research (similar to Reading Group work) on the selected issues; use .gov or .edu sites only; you may also use a documentary
4. Develop a thesis statement
Drafting:
1. Complete the Outline
2. Write as much material so that your draft is almost complete
3. Apply correct MLA set up, citation methods, and Works Cited
Feedback:
1. Exchange Drafts and provide thoughtful, logical, correct, and complete feedback
2. Using tutors is required
Revision:
1. Revise content, evidence, and analysis
2. Address format, grammar, wording, punctuation, and citation problems
Requirements:
• Pre-Writing: please use the following activities as a way to generate and organize your ideas.
• MLA format: you must set up the paper in this format. In a reference book, you will find a model paper, which outlines all the set up rules.
• Title: make it interesting (something that sounds like a paper you want to read)
• Introduction: begin your essay with a hook – a quotation, question, statistic, bold statement or anecdote – that further engages the reader, plays with the idea of the title, and transitions into the general information of the topic. The background you provide must be appropriate in length and content (consider the audience). Most important, though, present your thesis statement at the end of the introduction.
• Thesis = fact+ well-formed opinion + relevance. Ensure that your thesis is reflective of the prompt but that you take your own unique position, avoiding clichés and obvious statements.
• Body Paragraphs: each paragraph must contain transitions, a topic sentence (main idea of the paragraph that proves the thesis), two different types of evidence (text quotations or references) and correct in-text citations, analysis and commentary of the evidence, logical connections between the topic sentence idea, thesis, evidence, and personal observations, and lastly a concluding sentence, showing relevance.
• Counter Argument: At least one body paragraph should feature a counter argument – what would someone argue who did not agree with your thesis, what evidence and reasons would be used, and how would you defend your position in a logical and fair manner. Place the counter in the first 1/3 – 2/3 of the paper; not at the end.
• Conclusion: restating the thesis in an elegant, smooth and not forced manner. Often, it is effective to close with a response to the hook. For example, if a quotation is used, a writer may want to address this quote again. Further, allow the reader to remember your paper, contemplating on an expanding thought.
• Draft: this should almost fulfilled the required page numbers (one page is not a draft)
• Peer Response: critical and thoughtful comments that allow the writer to improve their thinking, change or expand ideas, include more evidence, and correct structure, grammar, and wording
• Final Draft: five complete pages (this means at least five pages to the last line of the page, right hand corner – seriously); proofread, correct structure and grammar, proofread, complete, proofread.
• Works Cited: this would be page 6, and the guidelines as well as models are contained in a reference book. If you are hesitant to put together your own Works Cited, you may also use Easy Bib, a website that generates these entries for you. However, ensure that you are using the updated rules from 2009.
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