Now that you have outlined your paper, it is time to start your rough draft. A rough draft should expand on the ideas you included in your outline, and should include introduction and conclusion paragraphs as well as transitional statements between topics in your body paragraphs. This rough draft will compile all the content for your paper in a cohesive manner, and present your full argument.
It is important to think about how to integrate the research you have gathered into your paper. You have a voice, and your voice matters. The research you have found should be used to provide support to your voice and your argument. Extensive quotations or even paraphrased text are not always appropriate or helpful. You should try to limit these to no more than three to five instances throughout your paper. Use the learning activities, discussions, and resources from the Center for Writing Excellence to assist you with appropriately creating and using in-text citations to acknowledge where you have integrated your research within your rough draft.
Write your Argument Paper Rough Draft using the APA Paper Template. Your paper should be 700 to 1,050 words.
Create robust body paragraphs to present your full argument by expanding on the topics in your outline.
Create an introduction paragraph that includes your thesis statement and introduces your reader to the main topics included in your paper.
Create a conclusion paragraph to bring your paper to a close.
Ensure your paper includes the following elements prior to submission:
also need to address the following:
Good work on this assignment. You have a potentially excellent argument, but your own voice gets lost along the way. Your most interesting point is stated in your position but not fully addressed again in the reasons or thesis sections. You write: “Rather than complaining about employers using social networking sites for screening candidates, potential applicants should use the technology to their advantage to build a personality that reflects what they really want the world to know about them especially potential employers.” This is compelling and would make a great argument essay. By contrast, your proposed thesis statement here is generic: “Social networking sites have become one of the most effective tools for hiring potential candidates, and as such it has become a tool for promoting a borderless business environment that sustains both the companies and job applicants” Anyone could have written that. What’s interesting to your academic reader is what YOU think as stated as your own position; only you could have written that. How many of your three reasons directly address your own position? Continue to work on developing three reasons into a thesis statement that reflects your own position, from the Worksheet: “Create a rough draft of your thesis statement using your position and reasons for your position. Your thesis statement will serve as the claim in your argument.” Does this make sense? There is great potential here. Let me know if I can help. Continue to work on APA formatting; you may find it helpful to review the Sample APA Essay’s References list to get an idea of how a properly-cited reference should be formatted.