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FCL10001 Academic and Communication Skills A

Argumentative Essay Assignment and Guidelines

1. Indicate the topic and stand clearly on your assignment cover sheet.

2. Ensure that your arguments are well developed, with a clear thesis statement.There must be clear topic sentences for all your arguments. These topic sentences

should be supported by relevant details. There should also be counter-arguments

and refutations.

3. All the points should be well-linked. There should be cohesion within the

 paragraph as well as between paragraphs. Use linking words such as firstly, in

addition, to sum up! to help you.

4. The topic must be investigated through secondary sources. There must be at least

" references. *You are required to print and submit all sources to the lecturer

(for documents with multiple pages, you may print only the releant page!s".

#. The checklist for selecting information references! must be used for evaluatingthe validity of each of your sources. *$his means you should submit a minimum

of # completed chec%lists. &ach chec%list should be stapled to the releant

 printed article and submitted with the essay, 'ist of eferences, )ssignment

coer sheet, and mar% sheet.

 

. #roper in-te$t referencing in the style of %arvard &ystem must be used. There

should also be a bibliography or a list of references at the end of your essay.

+. The word limit of the essay is appro$imately ',()) words *between 1,300 and1,00 words+. ou must indicate the word count at the end of the essay.

. The font should be either Times ew oman or Arial, its si/e should be '0 points,

and with '." spacing between the lines.

-. Each page must have footer with the author of the essay in the left corner and the

 page number on the right, e.g. #age ' of 1. The font si/e for the footer should be

') points in the font of the same type as the rest of the report.

1. A soft copy of your essay in 2& 3ord format !"S# be submitted to the relevant

&afe Assignment be$ore 1%&00 noon on !onday, 1 'une %01( * Any student’sSafe Assignment that shows 2 - 2-/ or aboe will be seerely mar%ed down in

 'anguage criterion of the mar% sheet, from 3 0 4-/ will be mar%ed down by

half of the oerall mar%, and any that shows #/ or aboe will receie an

automatic ero for plagiarism.

11. The hard copy of your assignment is also due before 1%&00 noon on !onday, 1

'une %01( !)*E +E#ALS )- #.E -E/# AGE

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&ubmission of &oft copy of Assignment

'. The soft copy of the essay to be submitted should include all the te$t from the first

word in the Introduction to the last word of the 5onclusion.0. 7o 8T include your topic, the 6ist of eferences or 5hecklists in the soft copy

submission or else your &afeAssign percentage matching will be e$tremely high.

&ubmission of %ard copy of Assignment'. 9e sure to include the :uestion number and topic at the top of the page, e.g. '.

8nline learning is more effective than traditional classroom instruction. Agree.

0. Include a title for your essay, e.g. Education in the 21 st  Century;. 9e sure to insert a footer with your name, I7 number and page number 

(. At the end of the essay, type in the word count as given in the e$ample that

follows<

a. Total number of words = ',>(;

 b. In-te$t referencing or phrases, e.g. According to 9rown 0)';! = 0'1

wordsc. 4inal word count = ',(0> words

". As stated earlier, the 5hecklists must be completed and stapled to the printout of

the articlea. This printout must include the bibliographic information including author,

 publisher, date published and date viewed so that the marker can check if

you have done the referencing correctly.

 b. The area where points have been taken must be highlighted on the

 printout.

c. The complete url link must be included in the end of te$t reference and in

the 6ist of eferences.d. All checklists must be typed or written in ink $  pencil. It is obviously

easier to type the information out because you can then copy and paste the

url links instead of copying them out by hand.

>. &pacing for the essay is '.", but for the 6ist of eferences, it should be single-

spaced and the references should be in alphabetical order but 8T numbered.

1. The hard copy of your submission must include te marked outline you

submitted and a com2lete corrected4 outline ? this is good practice for the

4inal E$am which re:uires an outline to be completed.

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