Assignment

Informative essay

min. 2 pages
APA writing style - with title page and bibliography

evidence of at least four articles read and published in New York Times, that informed about some situation, topic, event or human
Discuss newly formed reading habits

Submit v1 (rough draft) and v2 (revised v1) on due dates
Submit final version in one .docx:
1. title page
2. metacognitive writing
3. informative essay
4. bibliophraphy
5. AI work (prompts, responses)

Describes and explains ways you've become a better-informed reader of NYT
Must include:
a thesis statement
four one-sentence summaries of Edupass articles (from at least two of the requires sections)
demonstration of information literacy by incorporating answers to the questions in Blackboard (under "Finding Quality Texts")
how reading articles suport you in becoming a better-informed person
short description of your experiences using the Edupass by discussing the Informed Reader Preliminary Survery and nely developed habits of reading the EEdupass daily

Articles

4+ articles must be published between Jan 12 and Feb 10, 2026

Allowed sections

• Art and design
• Music
• Business
• Arts
• Well
• Technology
• Science
• Education
• Health
• Travel
• Climate & Environment

APA Style

Final essay must reflect an understanding of APA style through in-text citation, bibliography, and formatting.
APA-style bibliography of 4+ articles

Metacognitive text

DON'T use AI

Conversation about why we did the essay
how did we get to the final version of the essay
process of writing, revising and correcting the essay
If using AI during writing the essay:
why did I use AI?
in what way?
Why did I prompt it in such way?

Metacognitive is about the process of writing the essay, not the value of the essay
writing, revising, and editing processes you used while completing this unit

min. 2 pages of text

Preparing for writing

Bring essay for peer review on Thursday

Title page

First page, centered in the middle of the page
Title of the paper
Name and surname
Date of writing

Metacognitive Essay

Do NOT use AI for this part.
This is where the writer is having a conversation with the professor about how you write your essay.
Don't say what other students said during review, but how you changed the essay to include the changes
How the APA style was used (how did you figure it out)

Informative Essay

On first review, bring rough draft of essay with introductory paragraph
all of the ideas

Final essay has to be 2 pages. NOT LESS NOT MORE - it's a death threat

If used AI to prewrite/brainstorm - put on top (under informative essay)
I used Copilot/ChatGPT to prewrite/brainstorm/get ideas etc.

Focus on the thesis statement
2 page essay - at least 3-sentence paragraphs

Use I in the first paragraph. Identify the focus.

Informative essay is about the articles, and how they made you a more-informed reader.
Reading preferences you found about yourself

References

Follow the handout
Alphabetically, one-sentence summaries