Writing Question

Part 1 The first essay for this course is a Narrative Essay. When you write a narrative, you are telling a story. For this essay, the topic is how you are the hero of your educational and professional journey, based on the concept of the five stages of the Hero’s Journey archetype: birth, quest, trial, epiphany, and death. In writing this essay, you will consider your journey toward your education. It is not about your life’s story; it’s just your educational to professional journey. This week, you will complete the outline of your first essay. This outline will guide the development of your final draft of the essay, due in Week 3. Use the Developing an Outline [PDF] Links to an external site. provided as a resource to guide you as you develop your outline. In your outline: Structure an outline based on the five stages of the Hero’s Journey. Ensure your outline follows through each stage: birth, quest, trial, epiphany, and death. Apply accepted methods for outlining an essay, including main points and sub-points. Be sure to use the resources provided in the Writing Center to guide your format. Develop text using organization, structure, and transitions that demonstrate understanding of cohesion between main and subtopics. Apply proper formatting, including a title page, correct margins, font, and spacing. Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors. Assignment Requirements Your paper should meet the following requirements: Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Length: Submit one double-spaced page. Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font. Competencies Measured By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: Competency 1: Compose text that articulates meaning relevant to its purpose and audience. Structure an outline based on the five stages of the Hero’s Journey. Competency 3: Apply prewriting, planning, drafting, and revision skills. Apply accepted methods for outlining an essay, including main points and sub-points. Develop text using organization, structure, and transitions that demonstrate understanding of relationship between main and subtopics. Competency 4: Apply accepted style conventions and written expression skills. Apply accepted conventions of grammar, punctuation, language usage, and mechanics, including proper APA document formatting. Part 2 Assignment Instructions This week you will write the draft of your Narrative Essay. The writing stage for this week is Drafting. You may Revise and Proofread before you submit your final draft for grading. Use the outline you developed last week to write your story about your personal journey in which you are the hero. Create a document to compose a properly formatted essay that follows the Hero’s Journey archetype. This assignment will formulate into a five-paragraph essay, one paragraph for each of the five aspects of your journey. Include the following in your essay: Provide a narrative that follows the Hero’s Journey archetype. Use descriptive language that provides detail for each stage of the Hero’s Journey. The should include feelings and experiences, coupled with sights and sounds, that will make your journey come alive for your reader. Apply the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, tone, and citation formatting. Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors. Birth. Quest. Trials. Epiphany. Death Assignment Requirements Your paper should meet the following requirements: Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Length: Submit 1-2 double-spaced pages. Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font. Competencies Measured By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: Competency 1: Compose text that articulates meaning relevant to its purpose and audience. Provide a narrative that follows the Hero’s Journey archetype. Competency 3: Apply prewriting, planning, drafting, and revision skills. Apply the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, tone, and citation formatting. Competency 4: Apply accepted style conventions and written expression skills. Use descriptive language that provides detail for each stage of the Hero’s Journey. Apply proper formatting, including a title page, correct margins, font, and spacing. Apply accepted conventions of grammar, punctuation, language usage, and mechanics, including proper APA document formatting. Part 3 The purpose of your essay is to inform the reader about a topic within your discipline. Identify and explain how a concept, subject, or experience within your discipline drives your academic and career interests. You must choose your subject from your discipline. Remember: The purpose of an Informative Essay is to provide information and explain a concept. In this assignment, you are not persuading or trying to convince your reader of something. Ask yourself: What does my reader need to know? This week, you will start with the outline for the Informative Essay. Find at least one peer-reviewed, academic article from the Capella library to use to support your topic. Include the following: Create an outline for your Informative Essay. Select a scholarly library article relevant to a chosen Informative Essay topic. List the article at the end of your outline on a separate Reference Page Credit the author of the article within the outline. Apply the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, tone, and citation formatting. Apply proper formatting, including a title page, correct margins, font, and spacing. Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors. Format your final draft in full and proper APA style Part 4 All writing assignments have a purpose. The purpose of this theme’s assignment is writing to inform. Informative writing is supported by research. It is important to have opinions. Academically, it is crucial to support opinions with research. When you consider topics for Informative Writing, you are asking this question: What does my reader need to know? This week you will write the draft of your Informative Essay. Last week you selected a concept or subject that drives your academic and career interests within your discipline, and you created an outline. This week you will write the draft of your Informative Essay. Include the following in your essay: Inform the audience about the selected topic Include information based on own professional understanding of the topic. Support the topic with academic research from one journal article. Use the Capella library to find an appropriate article. Applies proper formatting, including a title page, correct margins, font, and spacing. Use APA for citation and formatting. Applies accepted conventions of grammar, punctuation, language usage, and mechanics. Assignment Requirements Your paper should meet the following requirements: Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Length: Submit 2-3 double-spaced pages. Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font. Part 5 This week, you will write the final draft of your Informative Essay. First, draw on the outline you wrote in Week 4, then consider what you learned from your Week 5 rough draft, and finally review the feedback from your instructor. The stage of writing measured in this assignment include revision and proofreading; therefore, you are required to incorporate the feedback provided. You will also write a brief summary of your revision process. Include the following in your essay: Revise your paper by incorporating feedback. Review feedback from you instructor Expand on informing on selected topic. Include information requested from feedback. Connect the topic to academic research from one journal article. Write one paragraph summarizing your revision process. Clarify how you added content or fixed grammar or punctuation errors. Describe how you incorporated feedback into the revision. Apply proper formatting, including a title page, correct margins, font, and spacing. Apply accepted conventions of grammar, punctuation, language usage, and mechanics, including proper APA document formatting. Assignment Requirements Your paper should meet the following requirements: Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Standard formatting: Follow APA formatting for creating a document, including title page. Length: Submit 2-3 double-spaced pages. Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font. Part 6 Assignment Instructions This week, you will start to follow the stages of writing for the Persuasive Writing assignment. You will first identify a debate from within your discipline, and then write a paper in which you state and explain your position on that debate. You will then take your own stance within this debate and support your argument with two scholarly, peer-reviewed resources from the Capella library. You are welcome to continue on with the subject you chose for your Informative Essay, but work toward taking a stance on your subject—a stance that has two clear sides. You will write about your position on your subject. It is imperative that you identify a true two-sided topic, a topic over which educated professionals in the field reasonably disagree. This week you will start by creating an outline for the Persuasive Essay. Include the following in your assignment: Select a debatable topic. Create an outline for your Persuasive Essay. Use the Developing an Outline [PDF] Links to an external site. provided as a resource to guide you as you develop your outline. Use two scholarly library articles relevant to a chosen persuasive essay topic. List the articles at the end of your outline on a separate references page Credit the authors of the articles within the outline. Apply the standard writing conventions for the discipline, including structure, voice, person, tone, and citation formatting. Apply accepted conventions of grammar, punctuation, language usage, and mechanics, including proper APA document formatting. Assignment Requirements Your paper should meet the following requirements: Length: Submit one, full double-spaced page. Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font. Part 7 The goal of persuasive writing is to persuade your audience to see your point of view. This week, you will write the first draft of your Persuasive Essay, using the outline created last week as structure for your essay. The stage of writing measured in this assignment is drafting. Next week, you will have the opportunity to include revision and proofreading. Include the following in your essay: Draft a persuasive paper that incorporates a clear thesis statement and three supporting ideas. Refine an argument to defend a position. Supports the argument with academic research from two journal articles. Apply proper formatting, including a title page, correct margins, font, and spacing. Apply accepted conventions of grammar, punctuation, language usage, and mechanics, including proper APA document formatting. Assignment Requirements Your paper should meet the following requirements: Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Standard formatting: Follow APA formatting for creating a document, including title page. An APA sample paper is located on pp. 251–254 of the Hacker Handbook. Length: Submit 2-3 double-spaced pages. Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font. Part 8 his week, you will write the final draft of your Persuasive Essay. First, draw on the outline you wrote in Week 7, the consider what you learned from your rough draft from Week 8, and finally review the feedback from your instructor. The stage of writing measured in this assignment include revision and proofreading; therefore, you are required to incorporate the feedback provided. You will also write a brief summary of your revision process. Include the following in your essay: Revise your paper by incorporating feedback. Review feedback from you instructor Expands on an argument to defend a position. Include argument requested from feedback. Expand on the argument with academic research from two journal articles. Write one paragraph summarizing your revision process. Clarify how you added content or fixed grammar or punctuation errors. Describe how you incorporated feedback into the revision. Apply proper formatting, including a title page, correct margins, font, and spacing. Apply accepted conventions of grammar, punctuation, language usage, and mechanics, including proper APA document formatting. Assignment Requirements Your paper should meet the following requirements: Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Standard formatting: Follow APA formatting for creating a document, including title page. Length: Submit 2-3 double-spaced pages. Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.