• The overall goal for this post is that I need my rough draft (attached below) edited and refined to meet all the requirements below. You are using this rough draft that I have attached as a base/foundation for the final draft. Feel free to remove and add anything to your liking to make the paper more compelling.
• My topic: The Online Sports Gambling Industry
• My position: The Online Sport Gambling Industry and increased legalization in more and more states in recent times is overall hurting society. There needs to be more regulations and awareness surrounding this industry (use court cases and show the process of regulations to help develop this argument). Arguments should include dangers of developing gambling addiction; marketing techniques that are essentially ‘trying to suck you in’ (the overall purpose of the industry is for them to try to take your money). There will need more arguments that support this stance (please explore this).
• This paper builds off from two previous assignments from class that I’ve attached below (Inquiry Presentation) and (Literature Review). Please review these past assignments thoroughly. Feel free to use as many or as little sources, statistics, and information from these past assignments that will help you support this position.

Key Notes to Consider for Position Paper/Feedback from Rough Draft

• Improve counter-arguments throughout the paper. There should not be a paragraph that is dedicated to just your counter-argument. The best way to incorporate counter-argument statements is to include them gradually (when relevant) in the argumentative paragraphs. Also, do not claim that these counter arguments to be incorrect, rather the purpose is to convey that another perspective exists within the topic (this needs to be addressed from rough draft)
• Including subheadings before paragraphs would be a good addition; add 1-3 pages so the final product meets the 8-10 page requirement
• Argument: The paper makes a sophisticated argument that engages an exigent community issue. It provides thorough background information and asserts a well-defined action or proposal.
• Arrangement: The paper opens by establishing strong exigence and clearly describing background information for the topic. It puts forth a very clear thesis and plan, and follows with a logically-sequenced set of claims. The paper considers and counters refutations very effectively, and the conclusion successfully addresses the bigger issues or questions presented by the topic.
• Research/Evidence-based arguments: All generalizations are effectively supported with specific evidence. The paper uses a mix of scholarly and popular resources to effectively present and defend a well-researched set of claims. All quotations, data, and paraphrases are introduced clearly and contextualized thoroughly. The sources used are all credible (or clearly explained).
• Formatting and mechanics: There are no proofreading errors, or only minor errors. It correctly follows MLA formatting for citations. The style and tone are very appropriate to the audience.

Final Paper Guidelines:

Assignment: You will compose an 8-10-page position paper plus a Works Consulted page featuring at least 20 sources.

Purpose: You have been working towards this essay all semester (Inquiry Presentation and Literature Review), gathering research throughout the term and considering (and re-considering) your position as well as others’ in order to determine the strongest argument or best course of action. Your work in this essay is to take a position within the debate that you’ve investigated and meditated on for a good deal of this semester. Your position should thus build on your work in the Annotated Bibliography, Inquiry Presentation, and the Digital Forum.

Keeping in mind this course’s central interest in academic writing as a skill that enables civic engagement and communal participation, the goal of the position paper is to build on what you’ve learned so that you can now (finally!) take a position within the conversation and make a new claim within your issue. This argumentative essay will be the place where you can share the fruits of your research and argue for the ideas you have developed through your writing and research process, keeping in mind what is at stake and for whom.

Audience: You will identify an audience for this project. When you do, remember the genre of the essay: you are making an academic argument. However, this genre should not be seen as limiting. Academics are not the only people who read academic arguments, and academic arguments are often found in widely read publications. Thus, you should think of your audience as an interested group who expects to encounter a thoughtful, informed, and persuasive essay.

Writing the Position Paper

1. You may feel as if you’ve said all there is to say on your topic, but our work during these last weeks of the semester turns your attention to rhetorical strategies that take up concerns of definition, cause and consequence, evaluation, and proposals for new action. Thus, you might work in this final paper to pinpoint the cause and the consequences of the problem you have been exploring and then propose a solution. Such a focus on proposals and solutions is indeed welcome, for we can all identify problems. The challenge is to create solutions with maximum benefit to the community.
2. For this project, you are required to have a bibliography of at least twenty sources. At least 10 of these need to be academic, scholarly sources (books, articles, government and scholarly reports, etc.) (ex. Google Scholar Search Engine); the others might include blogs, interviews, magazine or newspaper articles, YouTube videos, or graphs from government or think tank websites. All sources must be reputable, credible, and useful for your case. Of course, you should draw on your Annotated Bibliography assignment and your “Further Reading” list from the Digital Forum. You’ll also, though, need to conduct more research. A great part of your success in this assignment will be determined by how well you employ your research.
3. One of the trickiest parts of a long argument is organization. You need to give an overview, stake your claim, offer evidence, refute evidence—how will you put it all together? There are two rhetorical tools to help you here.

• The first is the stases. You can use the hierarchy of the stases, the way that an issue in one stasis depends on or interacts with an issue in another stasis, to help shape the paper. If you are making an argument about action, for example, you might introduce your thesis, but then bring in issues from fact/definition to establish background, issues from cause/effect to show exigence, issues from value to further develop a sense of importance and urgency, and then come to more extensive support for your claim about action.
• The second piece of rhetorical theory are the arrangement strategies found in Fearless Writing. These strategies offer guidelines about how to begin and offer background and how to lay out a map for the paper.

*I’ve also attached below a powerpoint presentation that helps show how the professor will like the paper structured. Regarding formatting, you can leave in same format as I currently have it in the position paper document*

Here is a link to a successful position paper for reference: https://english.umd.edu/research-innovation/journa…