Essay writing summary 9 Feb

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Welcome! 

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Road map

  • Essay writing 

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How?
  • Planning
  • Shaping
  • Drafting
  • Revising
  • Editing/proofreading
  • Hand in

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Planning

  • purpose, audience, tone
  • choose your topic that you care about/know about/like
  • develop a thesis statement
  • think! / gather information

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Thesis statement
An argumentative essay makes a claim about a topic and justifies this claim with specific evidence. 

The claim could be an opinion, a policy proposal, an evaluation, a cause-and-effect statement, or an interpretation. 

The goal of the argumentative paper is to convince the audience that the claim is true based on the evidence provided.

Source: OWL-Purdue 

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Thesis statement
'It tells your readers what your essay's topic is and indicates what you will say about this topic', 'direct and straightforward'.
The Wadsworth Handbook, p. 43. 

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Thesis statement

  • Can people reasonably disagree?
  • Can you formulate an antithesis?
  • Can you support your TS by evidence?
  • Does your TS make your position clear to your readers? 

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Thesis statment 
High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity and global awareness.

What are the topsentences following this TS?

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Top sentences in support
High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity. 

High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their global awareness.

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Framework
Introduction with your thesis statement
  • anecdote, reason you chose the topic, background
Body: your actual argument
  • one topic per paragraph
  • argument in support
  • argument in support
  • refutation of opposing argument 
conclusion

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Framework

Introduction with thesis statement:  50
Body: 
  • argument in support: 95
  • argument in support: 95
  • refutation of opposing argument 95
Conclusion: 50

Total: 385 words 

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Drafting
  • Take your framework
  • Focus on the top sentences
  • Write your paragraphs 
  • Add an introduction with your TS
  • Add a conclusion 
  • Add a title

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Coherence
A paragraph and its larger entity, the essay, are coherent when all its sentences/ paragraphs clearly relate to one another.

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Coherence
  • arranging details
  • transitional words/phrases/sentences
  • parallel structures
  • repeating key words and phrases

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Questions?

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Choose your content
  • Read a book
  • Work on an English exam
  • Writing skills - finish your rough draft
  • Prepare Chaucer test



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Word Snake

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Hangman

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