Let's Get It Started! 1. Review your thesis, your classmates' feedback, my feedback from the Thesis Discussion Forum. Revise your thesis as needed. Create a new document in whatever software you use (I strongly urge you to use Word to maintain formatting integrity when saving files). Create your MLA heading and type your thesis into the document. The thesis will be the last sentence of the introduction (sometimes two sentences), but you can add more at the beginning of the introduction later. Right just get a good thesis into your new document. **Note my peers did not give me comments. As i submitted late my previous work. 2. Open your Annotated Bibliography document. You may want to work on the two documents side by side. Or, you can just switch between documents. 3. Look back at the thesis reasons, the "whys." Then look at your quotes. Which quotes support which reason? You will want argument and evidence sources to support your reasons. Those should make up the majority of your quotes. Strive for 1-2 quotes for each reason. Hence you may have have several paragraphs per reason. You may also have have quotes that provide background information. You'll want to include those right at the beginning of your paper after the introduction. There will be more on this later. Right now, we're just getting started. Think of that song! 4. Find eight quotes that best prove your thesis/support your reasons. Before you copy and paste, FIRST Keep in mind that your research essay will probably follow a format very similar to the following: Introduction Paragraph--Last Sentence Thesis. First Body Paragraph ONLY IF NEEDED---Background information Quote. Body Paragraph--First Reason. Provide Quote. Body Paragraph--First Reason. Provide Quote. Body Paragraph--Second Reason. Provide Quote. And so forth. Conclusion. HENCE: Consider the order of the quotes. Of course not all topics will fit this format exactly, but this should give you an idea of where to copy and paste your quotes. FIND YOUR EIGHT QUOTES AND COPY/PASTE THEM INTO YOUR DOCUMENT WITH THE THESIS--This is now becoming your RESEARCH ESSAY. 5. Create Signal Phrases to go at the beginning of each quote. Before each quote write Author Name in "Name of Article" discusses/writes/explains/states/etc. "Insert Quote" (30). Yours would look like this John Smith in "The African Blood Diamond" states "the industry is bigger than most people imagine." Since no page number was given in the article, I did not need to include a parenthetical since I already gave the author name and the name of the article in the sentence. If a page number is given in your sources, do include, but if not, you can skip as long as you do the signal phrase. 6. Write a couple of sentences to go in front of the thesis. If you've got something good, write it now. If not, just plainly and clearly introduce your topic. Do not write questions like "Have you ever.

1. Let's Get It Started!
1. Review your thesis, your classmates' feedback, my feedback
from the Thesis Discussion Forum. Revise your thesis as
needed. Create a new document in whatever software you use (I
strongly urge you to use Word to maintain formatting integrity
when saving files). Create your MLA heading and type your
thesis into the document. The thesis will be the last sentence of
the introduction (sometimes two sentences), but you can add
more at the beginning of the introduction later. Right just get a
good thesis into your new document.
**Note my peers did not give me comments. As i submitted late
my previous work.
2. Open your Annotated Bibliography document. You may
want to work on the two documents side by side. Or, you can
just switch between documents.
3. Look back at the thesis reasons, the "whys." Then look at
your quotes. Which quotes support which reason? You will
want argument and evidence sources to support your reasons.
Those should make up the majority of your quotes. Strive for 1-
2 quotes for each reason. Hence you may have have several
paragraphs per reason. You may also have have quotes that
provide background information. You'll want to include those
right at the beginning of your paper after the introduction.
There will be more on this later. Right now, we're just getting

2. started. Think of that song!
4. Find eight quotes that best prove your thesis/support your
reasons. Before you copy and paste, FIRST Keep in mind that
your research essay will probably follow a format very similar
to the following:
Introduction Paragraph--Last Sentence Thesis.
First Body Paragraph ONLY IF NEEDED---Background
information Quote.
Body Paragraph--First Reason. Provide Quote.
Body Paragraph--First Reason. Provide Quote.
Body Paragraph--Second Reason. Provide Quote.
And so forth.

3. Conclusion.
HENCE: Consider the order of the quotes. Of course not all
topics will fit this format exactly, but this should give you an
idea of where to copy and paste your quotes.
FIND YOUR EIGHT QUOTES AND COPY/PASTE THEM
INTO YOUR DOCUMENT WITH THE THESIS--This is now
becoming your RESEARCH ESSAY.
5. Create Signal Phrases to go at the beginning of each quote.
Before each quote write Author Name in "Name of Article"
discusses/writes/explains/states/etc. "Insert Quote" (30). Yours
would look like this John Smith in "The African Blood
Diamond" states "the industry is bigger than most people
imagine." Since no page number was given in the article, I did
not need to include a parenthetical since I already gave the
author name and the name of the article in the sentence. If a
page number is given in your sources, do include, but if not,
you can skip as long as you do the signal phrase.
6. Write a couple of sentences to go in front of the thesis. If
you've got something good, write it now. If not, just plainly and
clearly introduce your topic. Do not write questions like "Have
you ever though about gun control?" You might have learned
that a shocking statistic is good way to begin. That's true.
Another good way to begin is with a mini-story. But keep it
short and simple. Your first paragraph should not take up more

4. than half the page. If you find the introduction stumps you,
skip it and come back to it later. But plainly and clearly
introduce your topic.
Essay++/previous-work/Annotated Bib (1).docx
John Q. Student
Professor Stalbird
English 1201.xxx
27 February 2020
Annotated Bibliography
Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Name of Article in
Quotation Marks.” Name of Source/Publication in Italics.
Publication Date/Info. Name of Database in Italics. Url. Date
Accessed.
This article discusses (give the thesis of the article). In the next
2-4 sentences, give the main points of the article. Tell what the
article said.
The purpose of this article is ______. The intended audience
seems to be _______. Address the credibility of the source and
the author. For example, for a database article you could write:
The source came from the Sinclair database and the article came
from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. The author seems
credible because she has written many other articles on the
subject. The article was written in 2020.
I can use this source for ______. I plan to use the following
quote: “______.”
Next Citation. Note there are no extra lines of white space
anywhere. Double-space throughout.
Essay++/previous-work/g (1).docx
Research proposal
Preliminary thesis: living overseas, learning the language, and

5. the culture could help you to be independent and give you the
advantage to get better job than someone who haven’t left their
country.
Section1: I’m interested in this topic because I have
experienced it and I think it would be easy for me to write about
it
Section2: I feel this topic talking more about what I experienced
Section 3: I need to learn and dig in deep about the topic: I
expect to write about this topic because I have the information
from my experience
Please redo the proposal following the assignment guidelines--
you need a fully developed paragraph for each section.
You may want to expand your thesis to the benefits of learning
another language and the benefits of learning about other
cultures.
Essay++/previous-work/immigration (1).docx
Running head: IMMIGRATION 1
IMMIGRATION 4
IMMIGRATION
Student’s name
Institutional affiliates

6. Course
Immigration
Preliminary thesis
Living overseas and learning other languages could make you
be at an advantage. This is because, when you learn other
languages you are at a better position to deal with people from
different places, (Geddes, & Scholten, 2016). This is a plus
when looking for a job because it means that you can be a
company’s ambassador in different places and the company can
take deals with people from different languages with your help.
This basically makes you an asset to the organization. Also,
when you are exposed to different cultures, you are able to deal
with different people and you can work with people from all
cultures. It helps you become open minded and rise beyond
cultural values.
Section 1
This topic is a very interesting topic for me because I have first-
hand experience. I am quite interested in travel and adventure
which has enabled me to move to three different countries so far
and almost all the counties in my country. It is during this
travels that I have interacted with a couple of cultures, learnt
and appreciated them and even managed to respect that every
peoples culture is important to them as yours is to you,
(Mahfud, et al., 2018). I have also been an ambassador of four
organizations so far because of my interaction with diverse
cultures and therefore for this is one of the easiest topics to
handle.
Section 2
Having seen how I managed to acquire a job over other people
made me ask at one time why they took me over so many other
people who were qualified in one of the organizations that
called me for the job. This is when they told me that diversity
makes you an asset. It is true because in all the companies that I
have worked for, all my assignments were about negotiating

7. with companies and managers from places that spoke the
languages I understood or cultures that I had once interacted
with, (Dinesen, et al., 2016). For this reason, I feel as if when
doing this paper, I am writing about my work experience as a
person who has interacted with different cultures.
Section 3
Although I speak from experience, immigration goes beyond
being selected for a job opportunity over others. It gives you the
leverage of getting jobs even overseas, (Koopmans, 2019). This
means that anyone that gets a chance of going to foreign places
has an opportunity of working there as well. Immigration entails
way more than just being in other places, (Payan, 2016). This
topic enables you to learn more and appreciate the importance
of being in diversified places.
References
Dinesen, P. T., Klemmensen, R., & Nørgaard, A. S. (2016).
Attitudes toward immigration: The role of personal
predispositions. Political Psychology, 37(1), 55-72. Retrieved
from
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12220
Geddes, A., & Scholten, P. (2016). The politics of migration
and immigration in Europe. Sage. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311511359_The_Politi
cs_of_Migration_and_Immigration_in_Europe
Koopmans, R. (2019). How to Make Europe’s Immigration
Policies More Efficient and More Humane. In Refugees and
Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU (pp. 97-105). Springer
VS, Wiesbaden. Retrieved from
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-24538-2_5
Mahfud, Y., Badea, C., Verkuyten, M., & Reynolds, K. (2018).
Multiculturalism and attitudes toward immigrants: The impact
of perceived cultural distance. Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology, 49(6), 945-958. Retrieved from
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002202211773082

8. 8
Payan, T. (2016). Immigration and the United States: A Path to
Resolution. Policy Brief: Recommendations for the New
Administration. Retrieved from
https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/93920/BI-
Brief-2016-Rec_Payan.pdf?sequence=1
Essay++/previous-work/RESEARCHPROPOSAL.edited (1)
(1).docx
Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL 1
RESEARCH PROPOSAL 2
RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Institution Affiliation
Student Name
Course
Instructor
Date
Immigration
Preliminary thesis: Migrating to a foreign overseas country
offers an opportunity to learn new languages as well as new
cultures of the world. Understanding new languages and
cultures do not only expand an individual's knowledge but also
promotes diversity and global integration, (Payan, 2016).
Learning to communicate foreign languages enables an
individual to seek employment in foreign countries while

9. understanding new cultures enables an individual to live in
harmony with society.
Section 1: The topic of immigration is very interesting for me
because I have my own experience of moving to a foreign
country. I have relevant information about immigration based
on personal experience. My experience serves as a reliable
primary source of information about this topic. I have enough
background information that will enable me to effectively cover
the topic of immigration. As such, this topic is a good choice
for my research.
Section 2: It is essential to understand the effect of immigration
on the cultures practiced in different parts of the world. The
topic of choice for research is relevant to the world and
especially all countries affected by the current immigration
crisis. Immigration has been an issue of concern for many
European nations in the last few years, (Geddes & Scholten,
2016). Many people from various parts of the world are
traveling long distances and crossing oceans hoping to establish
new lives in Europe and America. This has to had an impact on
the cultures and languages of the immigrants as well as those of
the society they move into, (Mahfud, et.al., 2018). Research on
this topic will give meaningful insight into this issue.
Section 3: Immigration often offers better opportunities for
individuals than they would otherwise get in their home
countries. Perhaps this is the main reason why thousands of
people are moving to foreign countries each day, (Dinesen,
et.al., 2016). Foreign countries have been linked with
employment opportunities and higher standards of living.
However, the majority of immigrants do not follow the legal
procedure of immigration. This often results in undesirable
consequences such as deportation and sometimes denial of
services. As such, it is important to research this topic to
highlight the legal procedures that should be followed,
(Koopmans, 2019). Furthermore, conducting research will
identify the many challenges that arise in the process of
immigration.

10. References
Dinesen, P. T., Klemmensen, R., & Nørgaard, A. S. (2016).
Attitudes toward immigration: The role of personal
predispositions. Political Psychology, 37(1), 55-72. Retrieved
from
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12220
Geddes, A., & Scholten, P. (2016). The politics of migration
and immigration in Europe. Sage. Retrieved from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311511359_The_Politi
cs_of_Migration_and_Immigration_in_Europe
Koopmans, R. (2019). How to Make Europe’s Immigration
Policies More Efficient and More Humane. In Refugees and
Forced Migrants in Africa and the EU (pp. 97-105). Springer
VS, Wiesbaden. Retrieved from
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-24538-2_5
Mahfud, Y., Badea, C., Verkuyten, M., & Reynolds, K. (2018).
Multiculturalism and attitudes toward immigrants: The impact
of perceived cultural distance. Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology, 49(6), 945-958. Retrieved from
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002202211773082
8
Payan, T. (2016). Immigration and the United States: A Path to
Resolution. Policy Brief: Recommendations for the New
Administration. Retrieved from
https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/93920/BI-
Brief-2016-Rec_Payan.pdf?sequence=1

11. Essay++/previous-work/workingbibliography.docx
Name2
Name
Professor
Date
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Immigration, race, and American politics. Princeton University
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AJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP7&dq=immigration&ots=y11IjRjxJV&sig=2p
eJdEVg_kPuZFW_4O5jDIC4vzU
Bell, Brian, Francesco Fasani, and Stephen Machin. "Crime and
immigration: Evidence from large immigrant waves." Review of
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Accessed
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Benson, Rodney. Shaping immigration news. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2013. URL Accessed
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core/content/view/122D885B46E319F794AA3DE5C979884A/97
81139034326pre_pi-vi_CBO.pdf/.pdf
Carens, Joseph. The ethics of immigration. Oxford University
Press, 2013. URL Accessed
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Hck4AAAAQB
AJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=immigration&ots=TKYfpjaGdm&sig=
NwI1WbEsZaIFsiCT7yqeIUncTRo
Castañeda, Heide. "Immigration as a social determinant of
health." Annual review of public health 36 (2015): 375-392.
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Cox, Adam B., and Thomas J. Miles. "Policing immigration." U.
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immigration policies." Population and Development
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of immigration to the UK." The economic journal 124.580
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"The effect of immigration along the distribution of
wages." Review of Economic Studies 80.1 (2013): 145-173.
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abstract/80/1/145/1596869
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entrepreneurship." Handbook of the economics of international
migration. Vol. 1. North-Holland, 2015. 877-911. URL
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housing booms: Evidence from Spain." Journal of Regional
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formidable-machinery
Essay++/previous-work/Writing the Annotated Bibliography
(1).docx
Writing the Annotated Bibliography
From the Working Bibliography that you created, you will
choose 10 sources that best answer the questions you posed in
your Research Proposal. Those sources will form the basis for
the Annotated Bibliography. You will need a minimum of five
sources from Sinclair databases and at least three of those
sources should be "scholarly."
Briefly, the annotated bibliography includes notes and analysis
on sources that will be quoted and paraphrased in the final
essay. You have already had practice with the skills that are
required, but the assignments do require that you set aside
several hours for reading and analysis.
If you've taken ENG 1101 at Sinclair recently, you may have
already had some experience with the annotated bibliography.
Annotated Bibliography
To begin to put the Annotated Bibliography together, review the
sources you listed on your Working Bibliography. Choose 10
that look like they come the closest to answering the research
questions you posted in your Research Proposal. If, after
reading and researching further into your topic, you realize that
you do NOT have 10 that address the issue you are writing
about, go back to the library databases and find more sources.
Keep searching until you have ten.

14. Choosing the 10 sources for the Annotated Bibliography is
important because you are going to spend considerable time
reading, summarizing, and critiquing these sources. Make sure
you take as much time as necessary to read and choose sources
that answer the questions you posed in your research
proposal. The work that you do for the annotated bibliography
will form the basis for your research paper. The time you put
into this assignment will pay off when you go to write the paper
because what you create for the annotated bibliography will go
directly into your paper to support the ideas that you are sharing
with your readers. This assignment is one of the most important
steps in writing the paper. The more time you give to this
assignment, the better your paper will be.
Once you have decided on the ten most relevant sources, you
will format a bibliography just like you did in the Working
Bibliography. You will alphabetize it, use a hanging indent for
the entries posted, and then beneath each source, you will
provide the following information:
First paragraph:
· A summary of the source. The first sentence of each
annotation should state the thesis or main point of the source.
Then write a summary that summarizes or paraphrases the main
points and ideas of the source. Don’t just tell us what the source
is about, but tell us what it says. Use specifics from the sources.
Include relevant details. Use the guidelines for writing
summaries to help you do this and use your own words. Don't
quote the source; instead, write what it says in your own words.
This section should be 3-5 sentences.
Second paragraph:
· A mini-critical analysis. Consider the following
questions: What is the writer’s purpose in writing this article?
(This question will allow you to assess whether or not you have
enough different perspectives on the topic.) Who is the audience
for this piece? Consider the context in which this piece was
written. In other words, how did where and when it was written

15. affect what was said in the source? This section should be 2-4
sentences.
· A brief evaluation of the piece. Consider these questions: How
do you know the author is credible? How do you know that the
author has the adequate information to write the article? How
do you know the source is reliable? This is especially important
for Internet sources. Here you can refer to the questions on the
CRAAP worksheet that you used in the website critique topic.
This section should be 2-4 sentences.
Third paragraph:
· Discuss how you will use the source in your essay. Discuss
how you will use this information in your research paper--about
one sentence. Then, include a word for word quote from the
source.
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16. John Q. Student
Professor Stalbird
English 1201.xxx
27 February 2020
Annotated Bibliography
Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Name of Article in
Quotation Marks.” Name of Source/Publication in Italics.
Publication Date/Info. Name of Database in Italics. Url. Date
Accessed.
This article discusses (give the thesis of the article). In the next
2-4 sentences, give the main points of the article. Tell what the
article said.
The purpose of this article is ______. The intended audience
seems to be _______. Address the credibility of the source and
the author. For example, for a database article you could write:
The source came from the Sinclair database and the article came
from a scholarly peer-reviewed journal. The author seems
credible because she has written many other articles on the
subject. The article was written in 2020.
I can use this source for ______. I plan to use the following
quote: “______.”
Next Citation. Note there are no extra lines of white space

17. anywhere. Double-space throughout.
Essay++/question+write+about+This.txt
4)Find eight quotes that best prove your thesis/support your
reasons. Before you copy and paste, FIRST Keep in mind that
your research essay will probably follow a format very similar
to the following:
Introduction Paragraph--Last Sentence Thesis.
First Body Paragraph ONLY IF NEEDED---Background
information Quote.
Body Paragraph--First Reason. Provide Quote.
Body Paragraph--First Reason. Provide Quote.
Body Paragraph--Second Reason. Provide Quote.

18. And so forth.
Conclusion.
HENCE: Consider the order of the quotes. Of course not all
topics will fit this format exactly, but this should give you an
idea of where to copy and paste your quotes.
FIND YOUR EIGHT QUOTES AND COPY/PASTE THEM
INTO YOUR DOCUMENT WITH THE THESIS--This is now
becoming your RESEARCH ESSAY.
5. Create Signal Phrases to go at the beginning of each quote.
Before each quote write Author Name in "Name of Article"
discusses/writes/explains/states/etc. "Insert Quote" (30). Yours
would look like this John Smith in "The African Blood
Diamond" states "the industry is bigger than most people
imagine." Since no page number was given in the article, I did
not need to include a parenthetical since I already gave the
author name and the name of the article in the sentence. If a
page number is given in your sources, do include, but if not,
you can skip as long as you do the signal phrase.

19. 6. Write a couple of sentences to go in front of the thesis. If
you've got something good, write it now. If not, just plainly and
clearly introduce your topic. Do not write questions like "Have
you ever though about gun control?" You might have learned
that a shocking statistic is good way to begin. That's true.
Another good way to begin is with a mini-story. But keep it
short and simple. Your first paragraph should not take up more
than half the page. If you find the introduction stumps you,
skip it and come back to it later. But plainly and clearly
introduce your topic.