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Paragraph vs. Essay While paragraphs are great for working on writing skills, essays allow a subject to be dealt with in greater depth. The vast majority of writing in both higher education and in many careers will be essay in form.
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Getting into Essay Writing
DS 014 WritingWeston Fall 2010
Today's Agenda Sign-In Paragraph vs. Essay Essay Structure Process of Essay Writing Overview
Prewriting Composing a Thesis
Introducing the Essay Map Coming Up...
Paragraph vs. Essay While paragraphs are great for working on writing
skills, essays allow a subject to be dealt with in greater depth.
The vast majority of writing in both higher education and in many careers will be essay in form.
Essay Structure
Most essays are actually longer than five-paragraphs—the standard “five paragraph essay” is rather like a starter form.
Essay Writing Process--Prewriting First stage of the writing process
Freewriting--no-holds-barred Brainstorming—list everything you can think of
related to the subject Clustering—mind-map Branching—gridding out ideas
5 Minutes We've discussed argument this week, so hopefully
you have an idea of a subject about which you'd like to write.
Take 5 minutes, using one of the prewriting methods mentioned, and write about a potential topic
(This will count as your journal entry for this week.)
Essay Writing Process—Composing a Thesis Statement
The thesis statement is the topic sentence that covers the entire essay, not just a single paragraph. It tells the reader what to expect in the rest of the essay.
The thesis statement has two parts-- The subject. The writer's attitude about the subject.
What a Thesis Statement is Not A thesis statement is not an announcement of your
intent-- I plan I intend This paper concerns
Or a statement of fact A simple definition
Or a title
Write Your Potential Thesis Statement You've thought about what you might write, now see
if you can come up with a thesis statement. Write a sentence that explains your main subject as
well as your stance/opinion. (You'll use the rest of your essay to back up/support
this statement.)
The Essay Map ReadWriteThink is a site with multiple educational
tools. Some of their most popular are their essay maps. The one for persuasive/argumentative writing can be
found here--http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/
Or, I'm including a blank printed one for our use.
Assignment Fill out the Essay Map with the main points you
might be using. Let me see your work before you leave.
Coming Up... Monday
More on the Essay Audience Awareness Introductions and Conclusions Revision
Monday after Thanksgiving Rough Draft Due Peer Review
Wednesday Final Draft due
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