{"id":14826,"date":"2023-04-17T00:28:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T00:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/2-has-the-death-penalty-really-served-its-purpose-of-being-a-deterrent-to-criminals\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T00:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T00:28:43","slug":"2-has-the-death-penalty-really-served-its-purpose-of-being-a-deterrent-to-criminals","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/2-has-the-death-penalty-really-served-its-purpose-of-being-a-deterrent-to-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"2.\tHas the death penalty really served its purpose of being a deterrent to criminals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argument Essay Topics and Rubric<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Choose 1 of the following topics to write your argument essay about. You may only choose 1 of these 8 topics. You may not choose your own topic. You will have to find 6 credible, outside sources. 3 of the sources must support your argument, and 3 of the sources must be used as sources for possible counterarguments. For this assignment, you will also create an annotated bibliography in addition to your essay and works cited page. The entire project is worth 140 points.\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">Topics:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">2.\tHas the death penalty really served its purpose of being a deterrent to criminals?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Process:\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tSelect your topic.\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tBegin researching the topic.\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tFind three reasons\/sources to support your argument.\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tFind three reasons\/sources to discount your argument.\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tEvaluate the credibility of the sources.\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tBegin the rough draft of your essay.\n<\/div>\n<div>Expectations:\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tYour essay should be a minimum of 3 pages and a maximum of 5 (not including the works cited page and annotated bibliography).\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tYour essay should have an introduction, at least three body paragraphs and a conclusion.\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tYour introduction must have a thesis statement that indicates three clear, unalike reasons to support your argument.\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tYour paper must be in correct MLA format.\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tWrite in third person\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tKeep paragraphs balanced (include the approximate number of sentences in each)\n<\/div>\n<div>\u2022\tALL sources needed to be cited accordingly both as parenthetical citations as well as in the works cited page.\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argument Essay Topics and Rubric Choose 1 of the following topics to write your argument essay about. You may only choose 1 of these 8 topics. You may not choose your own topic. You will have to find 6 credible, outside sources. 3 of the sources must support your argument, and 3 of the sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=14826"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=14826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}