Essay writing final class es

Welcome! 

Road map

Essay writing

- introduction

- coherence

Choose your content

Framework

Introduction with your thesis statement

• anecdote, reason you chose the topic, background

Body: your actual argument

• argument in support
• argument in support
• refutation of opposing argument 

conclusion

One topic per paragraph!

Framework

Introduction with thesis statement:  50

Body: 

• argument in support: 95
• argument in support: 95
• refutation of opposing argument 95

Conclusion: 50

Total: 385 words 

Thesis statement

Clear, direct, direction of your argument.

• Can people reasonably disagree?
• Can you formulate an antithesis?
• Can you support your TS with evidence?
• Does your TS make your position clear to your readers? 

Thesis statement info

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/argument_papers/index.html

Female Authority in Sixteenth Century England: How Elizabeth I Used her Rhetoric to Exert Power and Consolidate Social Order

 'Let us have our liberty again,/ And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty' (Lanyer, lines 81-82). With these lines from 1611 the poet Aemilia Lanyer demanded more freedom for her sex and questioned male authority. In the preceding century, however, England saw two women occupying the highest position in the country, representing the Divine Being on earth as Queens of England. One of these female monarchs, Elizabeth I, certainly did not conform to the prevailing gender expectations as she was one of the first women who was crowned Queen of England in her own right. Yet, the rhetoric she used in her speeches reinforced the prevalent gender roles, while creating support for her own anomalous position at the same time.

Female Authority in Sixteenth Century England: How Elizabeth I Used her Rhetoric to Exert Power and Consolidate Social Order

 'Let us have our liberty again,/ And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty' (Lanyer, lines 81-82). With these lines from 1611 the poet Aemilia Lanyer demanded more freedom for her sex and questioned male authority. In the preceding century, however, England saw two women occupying the highest position in the country, representing the Divine Being on earth as Queens of England. One of these female monarchs, Elizabeth I, certainly did not conform to the prevailing gender expectations as she was one of the first women who was crowned Queen of England in her own right. 

Yet, the rhetoric she used in her speeches reinforced the prevalent gender roles, while creating support for her own anomalous position at the same time.

The death penalty

The death penalty has long been a divisive issue in the United States. 24 states allow the death penalty, while the other 26 have either banned the death penalty outright or issued moratoriums halting the practice. Proponents of the death penalty argue that it is an effective deterrent against crime. Time and time again, however, this argument has been shown to be false. Capital punishment does not deter crime. But not only that—the death penalty is irreversible, which allows our imperfect justice system no room for error. Finally, the application of the death penalty is racially biased—the population of death row is over 41% Black, despite Black Americans making up just 13% of the U.S. population. For all these reasons, the death penalty should be outlawed across the board in the United States.

The death penalty

The death penalty has long been a divisive issue in the United States. 24 states allow the death penalty, while the other 26 have either banned the death penalty outright or issued moratoriums halting the practice. Proponents of the death penalty argue that it is an effective deterrent against crime. Time and time again, however, this argument has been shown to be false. Capital punishment does not deter crime. But not only that—the death penalty is irreversible, which allows our imperfect justice system no room for error. Finally, the application of the death penalty is racially biased—the population of death row is over 41% Black, despite Black Americans making up just 13% of the U.S. population. 

For all these reasons, the death penalty should be outlawed across the board in the United States.

Coherence

A paragraph and its larger entity, the essay, are coherent when all its sentences/ paragraphs clearly relate to one another.

Coherence

https://www.student.unsw.edu.au/transition-signals-writing

Coherence

• arranging details
• transitional words/phrases/sentences
• parallel structures
• repeating key words and phrases

Do

• Write your second essay
• Read your book
• Do an exam

Hand in your reading list and plan your oral.