PROMPT QUESTION “What role do marginalized students play in efforts to close the Achievement Gap, and where does the primary responsibility lie?”

Essay Prompt: For the draft, please write a 2 paged full essay to receive credit. If it is not in 2 full pages, credit will not be given. You must account for correct spacing and margins. Refer to the many samples posted to the modules of correct spacing and margins in MLA format. You are to write a 2-page draft written in MLA format. Please consider the texts that have informed your thinking about the prompt question. Also, you will conduct research by using the library databases to include peer/scholarly articles, to develop your analysis and to formulate a clear and persuasive argument or thesis for the following prompt question: PROMPT QUESTION “What role do marginalized students play in efforts to close the Achievement Gap, and where does the primary responsibility lie?” You will include 3 peer/scholarly reviewed articles from the College Library Database to help support your claim. These sources will need must be Annotated. Include an Annotated Bibliography Links to an external site for your three sources. Note*** Please read this question carefully to ensure that you are on track with the essay prompt. This assignment is not asking for a paper that gives background information about students being products of their environments and using their agency, as this is not the focus of the question. Providing background details and examples of products of environments is not what this question is asking, nor is this research. Rather, you must address the question as a whole. You want to look at the whole question and make an argument for it, which is your Thesis Statement. Please be careful here, and similar to the prior essay you ARE NOT reviewing or breaking down the reading for this paper. Also, this essay is not a narrative, but rather a research paper with scholarly connections that you are making as the writer based on your analysis. Completing peer/scholarly research takes time and experience with how to navigate the databases. Support from the Librarian is vital for this paper as well as the Instructor and Tutor. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Assessment: Papers will be assessed according to : (1) Essay structure: concision, clarity, organization, and flow of the prose/argument; (2) the subtlety, depth, thoroughness, and sophistication of the argument; (3) the specificity of the examples/research chosen to support and illustrate the argument; (4) Demonstration of analysis and synthesis (5) Rhetorical Strategies applied for the interview component of paper (6) Citing sources and the Annotated Bibliography (7) Narrowing down a focus and asking a Research question Due Date for the Draft of the Final Research Paper is Friday, May 23, 2025, at 11:59pm. The site will be open until Sunday, May 25, 2025, if you need more time without a penalty. Please remember to submit an Annotated Bibliography Also, be sure that your sources are peer/scholarly reviewed articles, and not sources from the internet. They will be checked. Please use the library databases only.