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Essay Building

Essay Building. From Brainstorming to Developing Support. Concepts guiding this activity. Most college writing requires students to present their ideas as “essays” These essays are “arguments” that develop an idea or interpretation logically

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Essay Building

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  1. Essay Building From Brainstorming to Developing Support

  2. Concepts guiding this activity • Most college writing requires students to present their ideas as “essays” • These essays are “arguments” that develop an idea or interpretation logically • These essays also develop that idea with sufficient support to convince the reader or at least defend their idea as reasonable and plausible • How can we help students both structure their essay logically and develop sufficient support?

  3. The “Critical Essay” • What are the characteristics of the “critical essay?” • What are the general characteristics of the academic essay? Guide on Critical Essay

  4. Development • How much support? • What kind? • How do you structure it? Guide on Development

  5. Strategies for helping students move from ideas to a developed essay

  6. Essay Building Activity: using a THEA prompt • Murray’s Writing Process--sequence • Planning for design • Collecting • Develop • Writing Guides • Orienting Yourself Toward and Essay Topic • Brainstorming for Reasons • Strategies for Developing Support • Development Outline • Example Critical Essay • Detail of Secondary Support

  7. The Importance of Coherence • Transition sentences that signal the main logical flow of an essay • Transitions that keep the writer on track developing support Guide on Coherence

  8. Assignment examples from a Developmental English classroom • Read the novel The Education of Little Tree • Write an essay claiming whether you liked the novel or not and supporting that claim. • Write a follow up research essay. Research the author and book. Write an presentation for a fictional school board meeting arguing whether the book should be banned or not. • Analyze an ad and argue whether it is propaganda or not—Essay Assignment

  9. Discussion How could you use this in your teaching context?

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