The textbook, The MLA Handbook (9th edition), is an optional text that students do not really need.

Any answer accepted. 

From one of your recent or current writing assignments, copy and paste your original thesis statement exactly as it appears in your draft.

If you experience a technical problem with Canvas or another computer application, what is the first thing you should do?

This course is entirely self-paced, and there is only one assignment deadline, the last day of the semester.

Water is wet.

What is the function of the following highlighted structure. Mark all that apply.

An owner and a contractor executed a contract providing that the contractor was to construct a three-story, castle-like structure on a specified location according to plans and specifications drawn up by an architect. The total contract price was $900,000. No date was included in the contract for completion of the home, but the builder was to begin construction one week after the contract was signed. The day after the contract was signed by the parties, the state development commission declared the land encompassing the owner’s lot part of a natural wilderness area, requiring that all residences constructed therein be single story and have plans approved by the development commission. The original plans for the three-story structure are totally incompatible with the commission’s guidelines for residences in a wilderness area.  Must the builder perform the contract?

A newly enacted federal law requires states to adopt a law banning texting while driving on interstate highways. Under the law, any state that does not enact such a law within three years will be denied 10% of the state’s allotment of federal highway construction funding. What is the best argument that can be made in support of the constitutionality of this federal statute?

A farmer orally agreed to lease a tractor from a company for $500. However, when the company’s secretary put the agreement into writing she accidentally typed in a charge of $300. Both the company and the farmer signed the contract without noticing the mistake in the price. When it came time for payment, the farmer refused to pay more than $300 for the rental of the tractor.  If the company brings an action for the difference between the payment as orally agreed and as memorialized in the contract, which of the following, if proven, would most benefit the company?