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ENG101 FINAL RESEARCHED ESSAY
Overview of Final Researched Essay
The Researched Essay has two primary goals: 1.) To test your ability to use the writing and reading processes, and 2.) To develop your ability to do effective research.
Note: “Researched essays” are different from traditional “research papers” in some very important ways. See the chart below.
Research Papers:
Researched Essays:
Are persuasive: the writer begins with the answer or main point already in mind and does research to support it
Are exploratory: the writer begins not with an answer or main point in mind, but with a question of genuine interest that s/he does research to answer
Written in the objective and formal-sounding 3rd person (i.e. use of “I” or “you” is not permitted)
Often written in the subjective and somewhat informal-sounding 1st person (i.e. use of “I” is permitted)
Written for an audience of other experts on the topic
Written for an audience of non-experts on the topic
Require certainty and confidence on the part of the author throughout
Allows ambiguity and doubt along the way
Thesis appears near the beginning of the essay and is supported by the outside sources discussed in the body of the essay
Thesis appears toward the end of the essay and is the result of thinking about the preceding outside sources
Only includes points that support the thesis; dead ends and disproved hypotheses are left out
May mention dead ends and hypotheses that proved false during the course of exploration
But researched essays also share some very important characteristics with traditional research papers . . .
Research papers and researched essays both . . .
Somehow deal with a debatable, open-ended question or problem
Provide background about what has already been said about the question or the problem
Require the writer to think critically during the research process
Have a clearly stated thesis
Use correctly-cited evidence/information to explore or prove
Overview of Final Researched Essay
The Researched Essay has two primary goals: 1.) To test your ability to use the writing and reading processes, and 2.) To develop your ability to do effective research.
Note: “Researched essays” are different from traditional “research papers” in some very important ways. See the chart below.
Research Papers:
Researched Essays:
Are persuasive: the writer begins with the answer or main point already in mind and does research to support it
Are exploratory: the writer begins not with an answer or main point in mind, but with a question of genuine interest that s/he does research to answer
Written in the objective and formal-sounding 3rd person (i.e. use of “I” or “you” is not permitted)
Often written in the subjective and somewhat informal-sounding 1st person (i.e. use of “I” is permitted)
Written for an audience of other experts on the topic
Written for an audience of non-experts on the topic
Require certainty and confidence on the part of the author throughout
Allows ambiguity and doubt along the way
Thesis appears near the beginning of the essay and is supported by the outside sources discussed in the body of the essay
Thesis appears toward the end of the essay and is the result of thinking about the preceding outside sources
Only includes points that support the thesis; dead ends and disproved hypotheses are left out
May mention dead ends and hypotheses that proved false during the course of exploration
But researched essays also share some very important characteristics with traditional research papers . . .
Research papers and researched essays both . . .
Somehow deal with a debatable, open-ended question or problem
Provide background about what has already been said about the question or the problem
Require the writer to think critically during the research process
Have a clearly stated thesis
Use correctly-cited evidence/information to explore or prove