Hi! Please turn in your article of the week ("Chimp to Man to History Books") and pick up this week's article, "Will Dropouts Save America." It is due on Monday.
After reading essays, I can say with certainty that our work on the analytic paragraph is not finished.
Get started: Take five minutes to either comment on the blog (if you can) or shoot me an email (if the blog is not working for you for whatever reason) and tell me what you struggled with the most in the WRITING of your essay (that means: don't tell me that you struggled with finding a topic or sources--that's not WRITING).
Here's an overview of the next three weeks:
Week of October 24 (this week):
Analytic Paragraphs
The cause-effect structure
Brainstorming cause-effect topics
Week of October 31 (next week):
Cause-effect rough draft (3 pages), due by 3PM on Wednesday, November 2
Peer revision, focus on claim-evidence-explanation model.
Writing an introduction
Week of November 7 (Last week of progress report period):
Peer revision of introduction
Summary/analysis revision
Cause-effect essay final draft (3 pages, due along with rough draft), due by 3PM Wednesday, November 9
Class assessment and self assessment
I think that the part of my essay that I struggled with the most was explaining the topic in simple text. So that people who don't know cars that well will understand what I was trying to say.
ReplyDeleteWhile writing this essay I struggled mostly with keeping an even amount of details for each topic in each paragraph. I wanted to have an even amount of details supporting both topics.
ReplyDeletei struggled with transitioning from one point to another and with citing people and puttin in direct quotations.
ReplyDeleteThe hardest part of writing my essay would be, trying to explain why each detail is very important.
ReplyDeleteWhat i struggled with the most in the writting of my essay was putting all my information together. Finding what to contrast and compare. My topic was hard at first.
ReplyDeleteWhat i struggled with the most in writing my compare and contrast essay was providing an equal amount of information on the subject.
ReplyDeleteWhat i struggled with was citing and annotating the information i found. Also being able to compare the two topics i picked without adding too much information.
ReplyDeleteOne thing i struggled with writing my essay was getting enough details about the topic's that i choose. i also struggled with putting the essay together.
ReplyDeleteI think that while writing the essay I mostly struggled with developing a well wriitten paragpaph and providing an equal amount of supporting details and citing my information with in the paragraph
ReplyDeletei struggled doing back and fort looking for the right websites as my resource i made sure everything i needed to support my essay is in the links.
ReplyDeleteWhat I struggled with the most in the writing of my essay was having an equal amount of information for the two things I was comparing and contrasting.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard for me to expand my writing and my thinking, also to find enough information to argue my topic.
ReplyDeletei stuggled with putting my information together along with wording to make it all make sense and fluent
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