Rough Draft Review Process Evaluation
Purpose: The primary goal of this weekly assignment is to enable you to understand the revision
process and revise your paper with the help of a writing specialist.
Prepare: After you have completed a rough draft of your paper (at least five pages), submit that
draft to the Ashford Writing Center. To do this, click on the Writing Center & Library link
located in the left course navigation and from there, you will click on the tab marked Paper
Review. To submit your paper, follow the instructions provided. Your paper will be returned
within 24 hours, so give yourself enough time to complete and submit it prior to the due date.
See image below that illustrates how you can access Paper Review through the Ashford Writing
Center.
Reflect: Carefully review the revision letter and the margin comments that you see on your
returned paper. Consider each of the suggestions provided to help you to revise your paper.
Write: In your written response of at least 400 words, complete the following:
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Identify the top three issues your writing specialist focused on in your rough draft (e.g.,
paragraph structure, proper use of quotations, and thesis statement).
o Were any of those issues surprising?
Describe what you learned from some of the feedback your writing specialist provided as
explanations.
o Was this feedback helpful?
Evaluate the usefulness of the paper review tool.
o Did your understanding of academic writing improve?
o Will you use the Ashford Writing Center to review your work in the future? Why
or why not?
This assignment does not need to be formatted in APA style; however correct grammar, spelling,
and punctuation is required.
Week 5 - Final Argumentative Essay
Global Societal Problem, Argument and Solution
Prepare: The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list:
adult illiteracy, funding for General Education vs STEM in primary and secondary schools,
minimum wage, oceans desertification, overcoming the digital divide, refugee (escaping
persecution, war, or death) crises, species extinctions (modern), tax havens, Transatlantic Trade
and Investment Partnership (TTIP), universal statement of human rights (pick one), airport
security, or wealth disparity. Review this GEN499 Sample Final Paper Guide for additional
guidance on the expectations of this assignment.
Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to
thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some
logical solution(s) to the problem.
Write: This Final Argumentative Essay will present research relating the critical thinker to the
modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the following items in
separate sections with new headings for each:
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Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph and conclude with
a thesis statement that states your proposed solution(s) to the problem. For guidance on
how to construct a good introduction paragraph, please review the Introduction Paragraph
Guideline (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. from the Ashford Writing
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Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.
Show why this is a societal problem, and provide perspectives from multiple disciplines
or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about
this issue.
Construct an argument supporting your proposed solution(s). Be sure to consider multiple
disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will
benefit from this solution. Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence
that your proposed solution is viable.
Interpret statistical data from at least three, peer-reviewed scholarly sources. Do this by
discussing the validity, reliability, and any biases; identifying the strengths and
weaknesses of these sources; and pointing out limitations of current research and
attempting to indicate areas for future research. You may even use visual representations
such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources. Evaluate the ethical outcomes
that result from your solution. Be sure to provide at least one positive ethical outcome as
well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution, and
explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. It’s important to
consider all of society.
Develop a conclusion as the last paragraph(s) of the essay, starting with rephrasing your
thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support
your argument. For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review
the Conclusion Paragraph Guideline (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
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The Final Argumentative Essay
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Must be 3,300 – 3,900 words in length (approximately between 10 – 12 pages; excluding
title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style (Links to an external
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Must include a separate title page (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
with the following:
o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number
o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted
o Running header with page numbers
Must include in-text citations (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. from at
least 10 scholarly sources. Be sure to integrate your research (Links to an external
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Must document all sources in APA style as outlined here (Links to an external site.)Links
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Must have no more than 15% quoted material in the body of your essay based on the
Turnitin report. Reference list will be excluded from the Turnitin originality score.
Must include a separate reference page (Links to an external site.)Links to an external
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Source Document Requirements:
o Multimedia sources (such as videos) may be used, but no more than two such
sources may be used. If multimedia sources are used, they must be authored and
distributed by credible sources, such as universities, law schools, medical schools,
or professors, or found in the Ashford University Library.
o Government sources may be used, but no more than two such sources may be
used. Examples include whitehouse.gov, state.gov, usa.gov, cdc.gov, etc. These
websites can be used to make a stronger point about your proposed soluation
within the argument.
o Where print documents are used for source materials, those must be peerreviewed, scholarly journal articles, and academically published books. Popular
media sources (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television and radio shows, etc.)
must not be used. Materials from advocacy groups (e.g., Greenpeace, Human
Rights Campaign, National Organization for Women, etc.) must not be used.
o Sites such as ProCon.org and Wikipedia must not be used.
o Religious texts must not be used.
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Your paper should include academic sources that explain multiple sides of the issue.
Your interpretations of the evidence should be objective and state the conclusions and
theses presented in the evidence clearly and fairly.
Your paper should place the various forms of evidence in relation to one another and
demonstrate why one form or perspective is stronger than the other positions that one
could take on the issue.
Your paper should point out the limitations of current evidence and attempt to indicate
areas for future research.
Writing Tools:
o Before you submit your written assignment, you are encouraged to review the The
Grammarly Guide: How to Set Up & Use Grammarly tutorial (Links to an
external site.)Links to an external site., set up a Grammarly account (if you have
not already done so), and use Grammarly to review a rough draft of your
assignment. Then carefully review all issues identified by Grammarly and revise
your work as needed.
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