Order Description
In this project, you will
● Inform undergraduate (incoming freshmen) students of your major (if you
do not have any major yet, choose one that you like)
● Help your audiences understand what your major is
● Also help your audiences understand how writing is used to create and
communicate knowledge in this field (in your major)
● Help your audiences familiarize with academic texts, such as books,
journal articles, and other online texts
● Assist them to become better readers and writers in the discipline
● Audience: your audiences are incoming freshmen students who are willing
to decide their “major fields” or who are considering different career options
You must engage in at least the following activities:
● Need one book to quote or analysis of one textbook from that
discipline
● Need one journal articles or analysis of at least one scholarly article
from that discipline
● Need one interview or analysis of at least one interview you hold
with a professor or expert (could be your family members and
relatives) from that discipline
● Use other sources such as your department’s website, brochure,
and flyers, etc. (department websites are very helpful–from MSU
and beyond)
PURPOSE/AUDIENCE-CENTERED ESSAY
● Your last name/page number, your/professor’s name, course information,
project, and due date
● Title/subtitles
● Titles/subtitles are explained well with illustrations, evidences, examples,
and images/tables (optional), etc.
● You can use figures, tables, and graphics (use captions-see model
essays). If you are using them, they should communicate what you intend
them to do; they should not result in unnecessary clutter
● Sources: Summarize, paraphrase, and quote them properly (be aware of
plagiarism)
● Revise your essay several times and also ask your friends to read it for
you; revise where your readers do not understand
● Edit, and
● Final Paper!
REQUIREMENTS
● 12 point font
● One-inch margins
● Arial
● If it is more than one page,
your last name and page
numbers on each page (MLA)
● Your name
● Professor’s name
● Course (WRA …)
● The name of the assignment
● Due date (see sample
essay/s)
● Double spaced
● Caption/s (if you have any
images)
● 6-8 pages
● MLA/APA citation format
● Look at the model essays for
guida
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