Thesis Assignment Goal & Purpose
All students are required to submit a Thesis Assignment on a topic of their choice based on the central themes covered in the course. Thesis Assignments are due no later than Sunday September 29th at 11:59pm. You are more than welcome to submit your thesis prior to the due date. The purpose of the Thesis Assignment is to help introduce students to the process of academic research and writing.
The assignment is required be one page in length (approximately 2-3 paragraphs) and it will encompass your thesis statement (a clearly demonstrated argument/purpose of the ensuing paper/project). Furthermore, you will introduce 2-3 preliminary outside research sources that you used to compose your thesis statement.
Instructions
Your thesis assignment must be 2-3 paragraphs in length (approximately 1 page), double-spaced, using 12 point Times New Roman font.
All assignments submitted must use MLA Format or Chicago Manual of Style for in-text citations, works cited/bibliography pages, and endnotes/footnotes.
Please refer to the resources tab at the bottom of this page if you need assistance with using MLA/Chicago style formatting. Or visit me during office hours and we can discuss further.
Your thesis assignments will introduce 2-3 outside sources. Aim to acquire mainly scholarly peer-reviewed articles or books from our campus library.
Grading/Submission Details
The Thesis Assignment will be worth a total of 50 points.
The Thesis Assignment will be graded based on the following 4 criteria, worth 12.5 points each:
Quality of Sources & MLA/Chicago format compliance
Grammar/Writing Mechanics
Development and Presentation of Thesis Statement
Organization
Submit your Thesis Assignment by the due date by clicking the Submit Assignment tab.
You will be able to upload doc, docx, and pdf files.If you do not have access to any word processing applications, you are able to submit the assignment via text upload.
All students will be granted 2 opportunities to submit the assignment. If you are unsatisfied with the grade on the first submission, you will be granted an opportunity to edit this submission and resubmit.