Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

It is important to be able to effectively incorporate your sources through direct quotation. For this activity, you will use Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to practice writing an essay while effectively incorporating quotations to help support your discussion. For...

Portfolio Project – persuasive essay

For this Portfolio Project, you must compose a persuasive essay in the narrative essay genre. Your narrative essay must cover the following: – include a thesis statement in your introduction- consist of body paragraphs that include a topic sentence and clear...

Case study of plagiarism

Plagiarism can take different appearances in different fields of academic study, but it always comes down to not appropriately and accurately identifying a source every time information from the source appears. For a case study of plagiarism in the field of computer...

My Escape from Slavery Summary

Summary is a natural place to start any writing activity that involves reading other texts. Summary is often used as a prewriting step to clarify the author’s actual message and purpose. Often this involves active reading, highlighting passages, annotating in the...

Going to College after high school

In an effectively-composed essay, express your opinion about the following: Some people go right on to college after high school; others take a year or more off to work or travel. Which do you think is the better choice? State your position and support it with...