Paper # 2 – Inquiry (150 points)

1. Assignment: In this paper you will focus on formulating a good question (remember what all major discoveries start with!), trying to find an answer (or answers) to your question, explaining to your audience what you have learned in the process of this inquiry, and reflecting on how successful you were at answering the questions you posed to yourself as well as providing a place within your paper for you to consider questions that you now have based on the newly acquired knowledge gained on your topic. The purpose of this assignment is twofold – to give you an opportunity to analyze and synthesize information on the subject and to organize the information and present it in a way that makes it understandable and interesting to readers. To succeed with this challenge, you need to help readers understand unfamiliar terminology, build readers’ knowledge incrementally, and provide cues for readers to follow the organization.

Length: Four to five pages double-spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman.

Audience: College students who do not know a lot about your subject.

Media: Choose appropriate media to help you explain the information (a picture, graph, map, or any other visual).

Sources: A minimum of five sources. Two of your sources should be a book, two – scholarly journals, one – a periodical documented in MLA.

Due dates: Section # 66 Section # 38E

10/2/09 – Rough draft (three copies) 10/06/09 – Rough Draft (three copies)

10/7/09 – Polished draft (two copies) 10/15/09 – Polished Draft (two copies)

10/9/09 – Paper # 2 due 10/20/09 – Paper # 2 due