For this assignment, you will work through the
prewriting, and drafting stages of your writing process in an
illustration/example essay. Submit as either a .doc, .docx, or
.rtf file with your first and last name in the file name.
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For this assignment, you will work through the prewriting
and drafting stages of your writing process in an illustration/example essay.
Choose one of the following statements and agree or disagree
with it in an essay developed by using multiple and extended examples.
The statement you decide on should concern a topic you care about so that the
examples are a means of communicating an idea; not an end in
themselves.
1. In
happy families, talk is the main activity.
2.
Grandparents relate more closely to
grandchildren than to their children.
3.
Sooner or later, children take on the
personalities of their parents.
1. Rudeness
is on the rise.
2.
Gestures and facial expressions often
communicate what words cannot say.
3. Our natural surroundings when we are growing up contribute to our happiness or unhappiness as adults.
MLA Outline Template)
Student
Name
Ms.
Bishop
Engl.
1101
XX
Month 2018
Paper Title
Introduction:
Thesis:
1. The
best courses are the difficult ones.
2.
Students at schools with enforced dress codes
behave better than students at schools without such codes.
1. Drug
and alcohol addiction does not happen just to “bad” people.
1. The
Internet divides people instead of connecting them.
2.
Good art can be ugly.
3.
A craze or fad reveals something about the
culture it arises in.
4.
The best rock musicians treat social and
political issues in their songs.
1. Lying
may be justified by the circumstances.
2.
Friends are people you can’t always trust.
To get started writing your essay:
1.
Review What
is an Essay?
2.
Take time to review possible subjects
3.
Use prewriting to help you narrow your topic to
one experience.
When drafting your essay:
1.
Develop an enticing title.
2.
Use the introduction to pull the reader into
your singular experience by introducing the problematic situation.
3.
Avoid addressing the assignment directly. (Don’t
write, “I am going to write about my most significant experience”—this takes
the fun out of reading the work!)
4.
Think of things said at the moment this
experience started for you—perhaps use a quote, or an interesting part of the
experience that will grab the reader.
5.
Let the essay reflect your own voice. (Is
your voice serious? Humorous? Matter-of-fact?)
6.
Try to organize the essay in a way that may
capture the reader by mixing multiple and extended examples, but don’t string
the reader along too much with “next, next, next.”
7.
To avoid just telling what happens. SHOW your
reader what happened describing vivid examples and incorporating
testimony. Make sure you take time to reflect on why this experience is
significant.
1. Review
the grading rubric as listed on the following page.
2.
Choose a writing prompt as listed above page.
3.
Create a prewriting in the style of your choice
for the prompt. Review the prewriting videos on the My Writing Process:
Prewriting and Draft page if needed.
4.
Develop a draft essay according to the following
formatting guidelines: (Papers submitted that do not meet these formatting
requirements will be returned to you ungraded)
5.
Minimum of 3 typed, double-spaced pages (about
600–750 words), Times New Roman, 12 pt font size
6.
MLA formatting (see the MLA
Format page as needed)
7.
Submitted as either a .doc, .docx,
.rtf file with your first and last name in the file name.
8.
Submit your prewriting and draft as a single
file upload.
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