The Preliminary Essay assignment is in response to a reading/article that you selected from our course textbook, The Canadian Writer’s Workplace, 8e. You must select a reading that has not been discussed or assigned previously this semester.
In Week 9, you wrote a Preliminary Essay Outline that detailed your plans for your Preliminary Essay assignment. Now you will follow your Preliminary Essay Outline to write your Preliminary Essay.
Instructions:
1. Write a Preliminary Essay that responds to the central research question you developed for the reading you selected from “Unit V: Major Readings” in The Canadian Writer’s Workplace, 8e. Thus, your Preliminary Essay will answer this question in your essay.
2. Include all parts of the Preliminary Essay:
Title
Thesis Statement
3 Body Paragraphs
Overall Concluding Sentence
References
3. Include two (2) paraphrased text references from your original source text, the reading you selected from The Canadian Writer’s Workplace, 8e.
4. Include one (1) quote from one of the secondary sources that you researched to support your response. Enclose the copied words within quotation marks, cite in-text and in References.