Essay writing summary

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Welcome! 

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Road map

  • BBC One Minute World News
  • Reading list
  • Essay writing 

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BBC One minute world news
  • Watch the clip
  • What are the two/three topics that are being discussed? 
  • What is your idea/opinion about .....be prepared to talk about them! 

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Reading list
Melissa, Jesse, Lévi, Hassan, Herman, Tim and Veerle: hand in your reading lists!!!

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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
'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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Examples
  • In this essay, I will discuss the impact of the environmental movement on college campuses. 
  • The use of ethanol should be discontinued because it has caused worldwide food shortages. 
  • Despite its limitations, Wikipedia can be a valuable tool for locating reliable sources. 
  • First-year students are not required to purchase a meal plan from the university. 

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

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Framework

Introduction with thesis statement:  40
Body: 
  • background: 75
  • argument in support: 75
  • argument in support: 75
  • refutation of opposing argument 75
Conclusion: 40

Total: 380 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

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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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