Essay Requirement Non-Compliance and Research-Based Argument Essay Topics

Consequences of Essay Requirement Non-Compliance

An Essay Requirement non-compliance is a failure to comply with an Essay Requirement.  There are a number of Essay Requirements.  

This means that each and every Essay Requirement non-compliance will result in the deduction of five (5) marks from the overall mark given unless otherwise stated.

For example, an Essay is required to be double-spaced. If it is not double-spaced, five marks will be deducted. This means that if the Essay is graded at 75%, five marks will be deducted, making the final mark for the Essay 70%.

Marks deducted for more than one Essay Requirement non-compliance will be cumulative. For example, if an essay has no Works Cited and is not double-spaced, that will result in a deduction of 10 marks from the graded mark.

For all topics below, you are not  to not submit a summary. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

1. It has been suggested that it was the manufacture of oxygen through photosynthesis by a certain form of bacteria that was the catalyst for the diverse forms of life on the Earth. Could life have developed without oxygen and if so, what directions might it have taken? Do not submit a summary. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

2. Is it fair to say that the evolutionary clock is always reset (i.e. that evolution begins anew) as a result of a mass extinction event? Do not submit a summary. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

3. Today, the most widely accepted theory for the cause of the extinction of the Dinosaurs is the Alvarez Asteroid Theory. Test and/or criticize the validity of this theory. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

4. Today, new findings are beginning to suggest that the body covering of dinosaurs may not have been exactly as we previously thought, and that dinosaurs may well have had a variety of body coverings, including feathers and hair. Test and/or criticize the validity of this theory. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

5. At present the debate wages as to whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded or warm-blooded.  Test and/or criticize the validity of this theory. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

6. You have already been exposed to one theory about the creation of the Earth and the Moon. Test and/or criticize the validity of this theory. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

7. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Is life as old as the Earth (ie. 4.5 billion years old)? Do not submit a summary. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

8. Humans will be the victims of the Sixth Extinction. Test and/or criticize the validity of this theory. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

9.  Is what occurs in Jurassic Park or Jurassic World actually possible today? Do not submit a summary. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

10. Given the enormous complexities we are faced with today, is it possible to slow or stop the sixth extinction? Do not submit a summary. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.

11. In Mystery of how animals appeared on Earth 'solved' by scientists, it is theorized that complex or multicellular life began some 650 million years ago. However, the article Fossils from 1.6 billion years ago may be oldest-known plants suggests that multicellular life began some 1.6 billion years ago. Which of the two articles is more credible? Do not submit a summary. You are to clearly state your position and prove it using arguments validated by research-based evidence.