V6 - 4: Essay Writing "Works Cited + Essay Outline"

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Which description does not fit the rhetorical triangle?

1. suspectibility
2. credibility
3. emotions
4. consistency

What is meant by: "Use the right register in your persuasive essay" in the context of your school exam?

1. Using a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions
2. Using formal English for your classmates
3. Using an official written record of names, events, or transactions
4. Using formal English for a learned audience

Use of right register

Formal English (kids x / ask for x / lots of x)

No contractions

No use of ' I'  nor 'We'

Technicalities

• Your introductions starts with an interesting hook, Give relevant information and end with an all-inclusive thesis statement, which outlines the path the body of your essay will take.
• In the main body you give at least 2, but preferably 3 well-defined arguments in support of your thesis. Each argument should be worked out in a separate paragraph.

In the next paragraph you offer a brief rebuttal to a counterargument.

• In the conclusion you restate your arguments and refer to the thesis yet avoid repetition. Put the issue in a wider context. Use a memorable final sentence.
• Give your essay a suitable title and make sure there is a reference to the title somewhere in your essay. Do not use the working title of the proposed topic. 
• Use Word Online WITHIN YOUR SCHOOL ACCOUNT ONLY! Sharewith your teacher with editing on. Find the MLA citations and bibliography functions!

Technicalities

Do some brainstorming before you start planning your essay.

Using an outline to structure your essay helps but is not mandatory to hand in.

Use the information provided with the topics as a source for inspiration and quotations in one to six words only.

Use the MLA format for in-text references and a works cited list at the end of the essay.

Type a draft version, review your work critically, then produce a neat version.

Use the word count function in Word to count the number of words of your essay (excluding the outline!) and type the number at the bottom of the last page.

Put your name, year level, subject, teacher and the date on every page.

Follow the instructions of the invigilators as to saving and printing your work. 

Technicalities

150 + 25 minutes

Two sources, use a quotation from both preferably

paraphrasing also means in-text citation!

Today

• Works cited
• Writing your own persuasive essay
• Purdue OWL YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/OWLPurdue 

Goal

• You know how to create a works cited list
• You have started writing your own persuasive essay

Works cited = bibliografie

• MLA-Style = Modern Language Association
• APA-Style = American Psychological Association
• In-text references
• Works cited (like a bibliography) at the end
• Automatic generator: https://www.scribbr.nl/bronnengenerator/mla/

Which citation system do we use at school for your Research Papers and your Essays?

1. ALA
2. APA
3. MLA
4. ALM

MLA

MLA = Author - page number - citation system (Johnson, 9), whereas APA = Author, date of publication. In-text citations: no page number? Then author only. In text-citation directs readers to alphabetical reference list at the end: Works cited. Each work cited must appear in the reference list, and each work in the reference list must be cited in the text. Both paraphrases and quotations require citations.

How do you note an in-text citation for a quotation or a paraphrase?

1. (author, date)
2. (author, and if possible page number as well)
3. (author, title book)
4. (author, place of publication)

How to use MLA Works cited?

The title of the source should follow the author’s name. Depending upon the type of source, it should be listed in italics or quotation marks.

A book should be in italics:

• Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray, 1999.
  

An individual webpage should be in quotation marks. The name of the parent website, which MLA treats as a "container," should follow in italics:

• Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.*

If you want to know more...

You can go here!

Essay - Introduction

Hook

Setting / Context of topic / angle

All-inclusive thesis statement: X because A, B, and C.

No use of ' I'

Show, not Tell

How many paragraphs does a SE persuasive essay have in total?

1. 3 or 4
2. 4 or 5
3. 5 or 6
4. 6 or 7

Now

• Make a list of 30 words or sentences that are handy for your persusasive essay from Acad. Vocab Units 1-36. Hand in.
• Then write a 200-word article on your personal career expectations. Peer exchange + Review. Hand in.
• Then present your future career and plans. 

Homework = read the articles for next lesson. See SOM.

Next lesson we...

go through the Essay Theory + Exercise Booklet together... and then we write the first essay in groups based on the articles you have read:

1. A Nation's Slave Past

2. China's Neo-Colonialism

3. Protection of Journalists