A traffic signal was installed at the intersection of Clay Street and Eagle Avenue.end underline Before it was installed, many vehicles raced through the intersection without regard to the posted speed limit. Pedestrians, many of whom were students, crossed the intersection to get to and from campus, but they had to dodge in and out of constant traffic. The number of accidents rose far past an acceptable limit. Indeed, one recent accident resulted in a loss of life.

Like other kinds of writing projects, a proposal starts with assessing the rhetorical situation—the circumstance in which a writer communicates with an audience of readers about a subject.

Plagiarism is putting one’s name on a paper written by a friend and submitting it as one’s own. Plagiarism is buying or downloading a paper from an Internet site and pretending to have written it. And plagiarism is pasting in a phrase, sentence, paragraph, passage, or portion of anybody else’s work in a paper and not giving that author credit. ln these examples, the intent to plagiarize is deliberate and obvious, something that serious and honorable students would never do. However, plagiarism also occurs when well-meaning students get careless when taking notes or copying notes into actual drafts. Following are three examples of unintentional plagiarism

Provide reliable information. in the form of specific facts, statistics, and examples.

Your purpose is your reason for writing.

also shows little to no evidence of the writer’s intent to meet or challenge conventional expectations in rhetorically effective ways.

Although the present tense is used in literary discussions and references to literary texts, some instances will occur in which you have to distinguish between times of events