In this essay, you are writing for a similar audience, with one major difference: Several members of this group continue to believe one of the two bad ideas about writing identified below. Your task is to convince these instructors that this bad idea about writing is, in fact, a bad idea and is not helpful to their future students. Here, rather than writing to inform your audience of what another author has said, you are writing to persuade them to adopt your view on this bad idea about writing.

As you write, do not organize your paragraphs so that you have one paragraph per source. The goal of this essay is to bring three authors into conversation with one another (and with you!), not to relegate each author to their own separate paragraph.

Bad Idea Option 1 – Good writing happens naturally, with minimal process

• Jill Parrot, Some People Are Just Born Good Writers
• Allison D. Carr, Failure Is Not an Option
• Laura Giovanelli, Strong Writing and Writers Dont Need Revision

Bad Idea Option 2 – Standard English is essential to good writing

• Anjali Pattanayak, There is One Correct Way of Writing and Speaking
• Jennifer M. Cunningham, African American English is Not Good English
• Steven Alvarez, Official American English is Best

Assignment Requirements

To be considered complete, your synthesis essay must:

• Be presented as a properly formatted MLA- or APA-style manuscript.
• Be at least three (3) full pages, but not more than five (5) full pages. Length requirement does not include Works Cited or References page.
• Include evidence (summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation) from all three of the articles addressing your chosen bad idea.
• All source information must be documented with MLA- or APA-style parenthetical in-text citations and accompanying Works Cited or References page.

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