Assignment 4 – Essay Revision Length: The original assignment’s word count plus

Assignment 4 – Essay Revision

Length: The original assignment’s word count plus an additional 250 words.

Objective: To demonstrate what you have learned this semester by revising a previously submitted assignment.

Instructions:

You will be able to slightly lengthen the original assignment to provide greater clarification. However, you may also have to trim redundant sections or unnecessary additions as you improve your original submission. Do not simply add more words and call the project complete.

The intention of this assignment is not to simply correct typos and minor formatting errors before resubmitting the essay, but rather to engage in thoughtful rewriting and restructuring of your original work. This is an opportunity to reconfigure or otherwise improve upon a previous assignment.

Essentially, think of this as an opportunity to reinvent or remix the original material. Here, intellectual bravery is going to be heavily rewarded – find some way to considerably reconfigure your original assignment.

Possible examples: taking “the opposite side” of an issue you previously addressed, choosing entirely new evidence for your research topic, choosing a different life moment that helped you learn the same lesson for your personal essay, perhaps massively overhauling the structure of a paper, adding a research component to a project that originally did not involve any, etc.

While you can fully rewrite the assignment, I recommend you borrow from your old project for the ease of writing. As a general rule: about 70% can be previously submitted content with 30% being brand-new writing – provided the original content is edited and recontextualized by the new additions.

This rewrite should demonstrate a significant revision and may not include any work previously flagged for academic misconduct.

This assignment will be graded on:

Spelling, grammar, and formatting

Strength of citations (if included)

Correction of issues identified in original submission

Significance of improvement or reimagination of original paper

Expansion of the original concept based on in-class principles

Demonstration of thoughtful intellectual growth

Clarity of vision or thought

Risk-taking