FINAL ONLY School Time Argumentative Essay
- Due Nov 24, 2022 by 11:59pm
- Points 18
- Submitting a text entry box or a file upload
- Attempts 0
- Allowed Attempts 3
- Available Nov 22, 2022 at 12am - Dec 21, 2022 at 11:59pm
Submit your FINAL essay after reading the below requirements.
- Your essay should be Times New Roman, 12 point font, and double-spaced. Be sure to indent new paragraphs. You do NOT need extra spaces between paragraphs.
- Do NOT submit your essay here until you have completed the whole writing process in this Module. This includes peer response and revision/editing.
- Your final essay should be better than the draft you submitted earlier.
Davis School District is considering starting high school one hour later and ending one hour later. Many people believe that students would benefit from starting school at a later time; others believe that starting later would be problematic. Write an argumentative essay about whether or not high schools should start at a later time. Be sure to address the other side (counterclaims) and use information from multiple sources in your essay.
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Rubric
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Focus
The response is fully sustained and consistently and purposefully focused: claim is clearly stated, focused, and strongly maintained; targets appropriate purpose, audience, and task; counterclaims are addressed and rebutted.
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Organization
The response has a clear and effective organizational structure: transitional strategies are used effectively and consistently to show relationships between and among ideas; there is a logical progression of ideas from beginning to end; introduction and conclusion are effective for audience and purpose; there are strong connections among ideas with some syntactic variety.
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Evidence
The response provides thorough and convincing evidence for the author’s claim, including sources, facts, and details: use of evidence from sources is cited, smoothly integrated, comprehensive, relevant, and concrete.
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Elaboration
The response achieves substantial depth that is specific and relevant, using a variety of elaborative techniques. The response clearly and effectively expresses ideas using precise language. Use of academic and domain-specific vocabulary is clearly appropriate for audience and purpose.
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Conventions
The response demonstrates an adequate command of conventions: Some errors in usage and sentence formation may be present, but no systematic pattern of errors; adequate use of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
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