Research Paper on how Illegal Immigrants affect America

Instructions

In a 3-5 page essay following MLA 8^th style and formatting addressed to an academic audience and drawing evidence from at least 5 scholarly sources, write ananalytical essay with informative moments that seeks to understand the cause or effects of an event, trend, or phenomenon worthy of academic exploration.

Be sure to include a thesis statement demonstrates your goal of offering a critical interpretation of primary and secondary sources that ultimately support your analysis of the topic. Remember: whereas the purpose of an argumentative essay is to persuade the purpose of an analytical essay is to present an interpretation. Write in such a way that the essay follows the analytical mode throughout, includes compelling moments of informing, draws logical support from scholarly sources, proposes a focused interpretation supported by evidence from scholarly sources, and includes a properly formatted Works Cited page. Although you can use the first person “I” throughout, please be sure to adhere to genre conventions and to write for an academic audience.

NOTE: The grading rubric for this assignment is the same as the grading rubric for the Research Essay: Final Draft. However, this assignment is worth half as much as the final draft, and rough draft standards are different than final draft standards.

NOTE: Keep in mind that the rough draft is intended as a learning exercise. Therefore, grading for the final draft will be more stringent because expectations will be higher. That is, just because you score an “A”/50 on the rough draft doesn’t mean you will score an “A”/100 on the final draft.

Quick Checklist

Your essay should:

• be 3-5 pages long (Works Cited page not included in this page count)
• include in-text citations
• include a properly formatted Works Cited page
• follow MLA 8^th style formatting
• address an academic audience
• use theanalyticalresearch modethroughout (with occasional moments of informing)
• draws logical support from at least 5credible scholarly sources to support analysis
• propose a focused interpretation of the cause or effects of an event, trend or phenomenon worthy of academic exploration supported by evidence from scholarly sources
• be edited and proofread to eliminate formatting, grammatical/mechanics, usage, spelling, and punctuation errors
• be submitted to MindTap as a (.doc, .docx, or PDF) file named according to the File Name convention shown above
• be submitted to MindTap as early as July 22^nd and no later than July 26^th