This third and final assignment will help you toward mastering important technical skills in the summarizing of a multipage text, using paraphrase and quotation, finding sources in the CCP Library databases, engaging in the writing process, producing a multipage essay, using the tools of analysis, interpretation, and comparison, integrating source material, and writing effective complex sentences without a pattern of errors.

Task

Throughout the semester weve read a number of chapters from Gladwell. This week we added three more voices to the mix– Greenstreet, Coates and Anderson that look at the benefits, costs and consequences of identity in our lives.

For this paper, you will the following question:

In what ways does our identity how we see ourselves as well as how others see us impact our ability to be successful?

This paper will also require that you use the CCP Library databases to find one source of your own to support your argument, and that you integrate at least two readings from the course.

Format

Your paper should be at least FIVE complete pages in length (even one line less than two pages is too short), double-spaced, with one-inch margins top, bottom and both sides.

More Help

For more information about how you can successfully complete this assignment, see the “Additional Guidelines for Writing Essay 3.”

A successful paper will

Be an obvious attempt to follow the assignment;
Have a thesis statement at the end of the introduction;
Have an organization that is logical and easy to follow, making serious use of the they say, I say design and relevant templates;
Have a reasonably well-developed (as in detailed and specific) discussion, including thorough descriptions and explanations of ideas from Gladwell and/or other class readings as well as a clear explanation of your source from the Library database;
Have paragraphs with organizations that are logical and easy to follow (including topic and concluding sentences and transitions within and between paragraphs that indicate logical relations between your ideas);
Have sentences that are grammatically complete, logical and easy to follow; and
Have a minimum number of surface feature errorscorrect use of periods and question marks, correct spelling, absence of typographical errors, etc., including no use of any form of the pronoun you.