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Level 4 Research Essay Sample 1
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Students were asked to prepare a formal research essay on a general, applied, or academic subject following standard documentation methods. This complex activity required students to apply a number of key skills, including reframing information and ideas; collecting, analyzing, and organizing information from different sources; evaluating the validity of others’ arguments and their own thinking; and writing clearly, concisely, and correctly.
Assignment: to write an essay that synthesizes research material concerning the stages of a particular physical ailment.
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Comments Is an outstanding example of research on a practical topic
Displays an excellent thesis
Is well organized
Uses APA documentation
Integrates references well
Contains one dangling modifier error on p. 2
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Level 4 Research Essay Sample 2
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Students were asked to prepare a formal research essay on a general, applied, or academic subject following standard documentation methods. This complex activity required students to apply a number of key skills, including reframing information and ideas; collecting, analyzing, and organizing information from different sources; evaluating the validity of others’ arguments and their own thinking; and writing clearly, concisely, and correctly.
Assignment: to write an essay on a topic of general social concern, summarizing key aspects of the topic.
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Comments Introduction uses attention-getting techniques
Introduction contains clear thesis statement, which is well supported in body
Uses MLA documentation effectively
Uses precise diction
Has attention-getting introduction
Uses expository style
Contains relevant material
Has few grammatical errors (one comma splice)
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Level 4 Research Essay Sample 3
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Students were asked to prepare a formal research essay on a general, applied, or academic subject following standard documentation methods. This complex activity required students to apply a number of key skills, including reframing information and ideas; collecting, analyzing, and organizing information from different sources; evaluating the validity of others’ arguments and their own thinking; and writing clearly, concisely, and correctly.
Assignment: to write an essay presenting an academic analysis of literary and theoretical issues, related to specific texts and concepts, and including an annotated bibliography for the reader’s reference.
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Comments Uses a weak “dawn of time” opening
Is written for a Pre-University program or elective course
Uses MLA documentation
Deals with an academic rather than applied topic
Contains an excellent example of an Annotated Bibliography
Contains long paragraphs (reflection of academic stance)
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Level 4 Research Essay Sample 4
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Students were asked to prepare a formal research essay on a general, applied, or academic subject following standard documentation methods. This complex activity required students to apply a number of key skills, including reframing information and ideas; collecting, analyzing, and organizing information from different sources; evaluating the validity of others’ arguments and their own thinking; and writing clearly, concisely, and correctly.
Assignment: to write an essay presenting an academic analysis of literary and theoretical issues, related to specific texts and concepts.
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Comments Demonstrates high-level critical thinking by analyzing and synthesizing information from two different points of view
Employs sophisticated sentence structure and vocabulary
Introduces quotations and includes in-text citations (MLA style)
Uses a clichéd “dawn of time” opening
Contains some minor MLA errors (two underlining errors; some periods in the wrong place; an article by Briscoe listed in Works Cited is not specifically cited in the essay)
Contains a few minor editing errors (comma splice, sentence fragment, apostrophe, semi-colon, colon, comma), but these errors do not impede communication
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