cigarette smoking destroys human health

I need a truth paper written. 2 pages 3 sources mla format. I need the rough draft and final draft. subject is cigarette smoking destroys human health
REVIEW CHECKSHEET

I. FORMAT
 Does the heading have the name, instructor’s name, class, and date (day month year—the month name written out)?
 Is the font Times New Roman? Even the page number in the top right?
• Not Cambria
• Not Arial
 Is everything EVENLY double-spaced without any extra spaces (or fractions of spaces) between paragraphs?
 Is there a title?
• By the way, does the title draw you in? Does it really reflect the paper?
• Are the correct words capitalized in the title?
 Most words are capitalized. You don’t have to do any of the coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS), articles, or prepositions under four letters.

II. STRUCTURE
 Is the thesis at the end of the introduction?
 Is the thesis only one sentence long?
 Is there a topic sentence at the top of the paragraph?
 Do any of the paragraphs begin or end with a source? They shouldn’t!
 Does the paragraph have a satisfying concluding sentence, or does it simply end without wrapping things up?

III. THESIS
 Does the thesis statement make some sort of a claim or argument?
 Is the thesis statement clear? Could it be said in a more straightforward way?
 Overall, is the argument (what the author is getting at) clear throughout the essay?
 Is the argument legitimate? Any fallacies or jumps in logic?
 Does the author ever stray from the point?

IV. TOPIC SENTENCES
 A topic sentence (the first sentence of a body paragraph) is supposed to do two things: 1) connect the paragraph to the thesis statement and 2) summarize the point of the paragraph.
 Read the thesis statement again, then read every topic sentence. Does each topic sentence relate directly to the thesis?
 Now read the first topic sentence, and go through all the body sentences below it. Can you connect each sentence to the topic sentence?
• It is important that the author keeps the paragraph about one thing and not stray from that point within the paragraph.
• Repeat!

V. SOURCES
Source Quality
 Are the sources all credible?
• Who is the author?
• Are any credentials given?
• Who is the publisher?
 Does the author understand the biases of the sources?
• Was the information intended to persuade, inform, entertain or sell?
• For websites, what does the address end with – .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org?
• Is it easy to make out the author’s opinions or point of view?
 Can the sources be trusted for accuracy?
• Are the sources for any factual information clearly listed so they can be verified?
• Is the information free of grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors?
• Are any research studies and/or statistics discussed, if so are they listed in a works cited?

In-Text Citations
 Check to see that EVERY SOURCE, including paraphrases and summaries, has a signal tag and ending citation.
 First, is there a signal tag?
◼ According to John Smith, author of Title, “. . .”
◼ John Smith states in his book Title, “. . .”
◼ In his book Title, John Smith writes that “ . . .”
◼ John Smith explains in his book Title, that along with the word “handicap” comes a stigma: “ . . .”
 Are the correct titles italicized or put in “quotation marks?”
“Short stories, poems, article titles, chapter titles, and webpages go in quotation marks”; journal titles, magazines, books, and entire websites go in italics.
 Are the quotation marks and other punctuation in the right spot for each source?
 Is there an ending citation (with the correct information in it) for each source?
◼ If there’s a page number use that –> (27).
◼ If there’s no page number, default to the article or webpage title with quotation marks –> (“Title”). In this case, you should use the website or journal name in the signal tag in order to avoid redundancy in your parenthetical citations.

Works Cited
 First do the words “Works Cited”(only) appear at the top middle of the page?
 Hanging indent?
 Evenly double spaced?
 Alphabetical order?

VI. NO-NOs
Read through to omit the following:
 First person: I, me, my, mine/First Person Plural: we, us, our
 Second person: you, your, yours
 Contractions: can’t, won’t, don’t, etc.
 Questions, rhetorical or otherwise.
 Run-ons, comma splices, and fragments.
 Pronoun agreement problems.
 Check the wording for:
 Anything that makes you say “huh?” If so—please write “huh?” in the margins!
 Wordiness. Is there anything that could be said more simply? Remember, we aren’t looking for flashiness or big words, but clear, simple, and elegant sentences.
Instructions: Truth Paper
Prompt: Write a paper that makes a claim of truth, using research and all your powers of rhetoric.

Specifications: 2 pages, 3 sources, MLA format. You will be graded on content, structure, support, format, and grammar.

Warning: Do not write a value paper. Truth claims assert whether something is or is not true; value papers assert whether something is good or bad. For example, a truth claim might read, “Vandelay Industries polluted that lake,” while a value claim might read, “It was wrong of Vandelay Industries to pollute that lake.”

Content hints: While this is an argument paper, other rhetorical modes may be used in service to that argument. For example, you can employ cause/effect, compare/contrast, definition, process, narrative (though not a personal narrative).

Examples:

Corporal punishment (spanking) reduces gray matter in the brain.
Bees cannot adapt fast enough to keep up with climate change, which will have catastrophic effects on the environment.
J. Simpson is guilty.
There is a correlation between society’s use of birth control and the rising abortion rate.
Raising the legal drinking age will reduce the number of teenage drunk driving accidents.
Society’s reliance on social media is, in every sense, an addiction.
President Trump is [is not] guilty of obstruction of justice.