Paper # 2 –
Inquiry (150 points)
- 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,
chart, or any other visual).
Sources: A
minimum of four sources: one book, one scholarly journal, one periodical, and
one online source documented in MLA.
Due dates:
02/23/2012 Rough
Draft (two copies)
03/01/2012 Polished
Draft
03/15/2012 Final
Draft