ESSAY #1: First week of the assignment

(WEEK #3 of the course)

Example or Definition Essay

6 Perhaps print this page out and check off the steps as you complete them.

STEPS TO FOLLOW:

_____1. As preparatory reading, please read Paragraphs Made Easy and Essays Made Easy, choices #1 and #2 in our Course Documents.

_____2. Next, please skim read for general content and advice Steps to Writing Well, Chapter 3, “The Body Paragraphs,” pp. 47-78 (47-78).

_____3. Then, continue to skim read for general content and advice Steps to Writing Well, Chapter 4, “Beginnings and Endings,” pp. 79-90 (79-87).

_____4. Next, please read carefully the following sections of our text, Steps to Writing Well:

____“Exposition,” pp. 183-184 (179-180).

____Strategy One: Development by Example, pp. 184-191 (180-185).

____Sample Essay “River Rafting Teaches Worthwhile Lessons,” pp. 191-193 (187-189)

____Sample Essay “So What’s So Bad about Being So-So?” pp. 193-195 (189-191)

____Strategy Four: Development by Definition, pp. 236-240 (232-236) 

____Sample Essay “Blind Paces,” pp. 242-245 (238-241)

____Sample Essay “The Munchausen Mystery,” pp. 245-247 (241-243)

_____4. After you have read the above pages, select either Development by Example or Development by Definition for your first essay.

____The essay topics for both essays structures can be found at this link.

_____ 5. Select a topic from the appropriate list of essay topics above and write a five-paragraph essay. 

Ñ (Use one of the above sample essays or The Milkshake Essay as an example of structure and format.)

 _____6. Write multiple drafts until you have something worth sharing with your reader.

_____7. By midnight Sunday, April 20, please post your completed rough draft (cut-and-paste) to the Forum Essay #1--group rough drafts and responses in your Writing Group.

EPost your completed rough draft (cut and paste) to the Forum Essay #1--group rough drafts and responses, which can be found in your particular Writing Group.

P Steps #8-#11 are in Week #4.