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Writing Essays

Reading & Writing Essays

  • qualities of good writing:
  • clarity
  • coherence
  • logical organization
  • accuracy and correctness
  • sufficiency
  • style
  • planning
  • take notes
  • the act of thinking about what you have marked copied, summarized or paraphrased
  • drafting
  • consider your purpose
  • be fair-minded: don’t over simplify or distort
  • be cautious
  • be logical
  • be accurate
  • be confident
  • revising
  • revision occurs throughout the entire arc of the writing process
  • reconsider ideas
  • reorganize
  • work on style
  • Are sentences concise and clear?
  • Can you eliminate words that are not doing their job?
  • Is you tone consistent?
  • Is you level of language appropriate for the subject of your essay?
  • Are there grammatical errors? Spelling mistakes? Punctuation?

History, Context, Etc.

Reading Essays

Types of Essays

  • includes several interrelated acts:
  • observing
  • connecting
  • inferring
  • questioning
  • concluding
  • look for connections: details of image and structure, argument and evidence.
  • be and active and deliberative reader
  • make sense of gaps in texts: linguistic, literary, cultural conventions
  • questions to ask:
  • What strikes us most about this passage?
  • What do we notice on first read it?
  • What observations would we most like to make about it?
  • What questions do we have?
  • What feeling does the text inspire?
  • What expectations do we have about where the essayist is taking us?

  • essays explain what stories imply
  • they are linked to poetry
  • personal essay (use of I)
  • formal essay (avoid the pronoun “I”
  • expository essays explain ideas and scenarios using standard patterns of organization, including comparison and contrast, classification, and cause and effect.
  • analytical essays offer analysis and interpretation of a text of performance, typically breaking that text or performance into parts or aspects and presenting both an evaluative judgment and the evidence on which it is based.
  • argumentative, or persuasive essay advances a thesis or claim and present evidence that is organized as part of a logical demonstration utilizing the modes of deductive and inductive reasoning and including support of the argumentative claim in the form of reasons, examples, and data as evidence.

Why Essays

History & Context

  • something for everyone
  • voices, visions, styles to suit every taste
  • can be about anything
  • covers the broad spectrum of human concerns (race, culture, identity)
  • can convey beautiful craft, style, beauty

• “essay” comes from the French: essais, or "attempts"

• essays

  • have a personal tone
  • are improvisatory
  • are energetic
  • and inquiring

• they tests opinions

• provide information

• sets us to thinking

• reveals the writer through exploration of subject

• reveals the act of thinking

Not until we are lost do we begin to see ourselves.

~Henry David Thoreau

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