essay writing - academic writing
basis of all academic writing, Eng.12
essay - multiparagraph, several paragraphs
SO FAR IN THIS CLASS paragraph - single paragraph
challenge - stay organized
"In paragraphs, discuss how ...."
"In a multiparagraph essay, explain...."
three sections to an essay (WAE, 56)
Introductory paragraph
Body paragraphs
Concluding paragraph
essay (57) basic style of essay, 5-paragraph essay
3*5 essay, nothing fancy, utilitarian, boring, vanilla style of essay
Grade 12 provincial exam - 3*5 will get a pass, but not top marks
Basic 3*5 essay will usually always work, nothing really special or interesting
- used Honda Civic, great car, reliable, boring, not fancy
Paragraph
Topic sentence
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Concluding sentence
Essay - expanded paragraph
- making it bigger
- not 5 pages, not really long, not an opportunity to write pages and pages
- English 12 Provincial Exam essay (300 words)
- Well-organized, structure
- Well-written - simple, compound, complex sentences, verb tense, verb form, punctuation
essay (French verb) to try, to try to explain/describe/teach/tell a story in full as well as you can
English 12 - 300 words essay in 35 minutes
LPI Language Proficiency Index, UBC
IELTS
BC Ed Grade 12 Literacy Assessment
https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/sites/curriculum.gov.bc.ca/files/pdf/assessment/grade-12-literacy-specs.pdf
WAE Model essay (58-9)
The structure should be the same, despite the length.
INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH
Grabber - a sentence of two to catch the reader's attention and make them want to keep reading
- history
- short anecdote
- fact or statistic
- quotation form a famous person
- idiom from your language or English
- question
- general to specific statement , funnel
Thesis statement, same job as a topic sentence
Predictor - gives the points
BODY PARAGRAPHS
Body 1
Topic sentence
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Concluding sentence?? May be too repetitive in an essay
Body 2
Body 3
Body 4
CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH
-Restatement, same ideas , different vocabulary, different phrasing
Restate Thesis, Restate the points
End with a Clincher
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