...Model essay questions Use the model essay emailed to you to answer the questions below. 1) Write the thesis statement from the introduction below. Tourism impacts can be arranged into environment, socio-cultural and economic. 2) Our essay thesis is: Research shows that over consumption of junk food is detrimental to health. To what extent can education be the answer to this problem? What do you think the essay thesis is for this essay? The essay thesis is clear, easy to understand all words and show how we need to divide into essay. Do you think the essay thesis is clear from the thesis statement in the introduction? The essay thesis is very clear from the thesis statement in the introduction because is summary all the main idea which will be on essay. 3) What are the subtopics for this essay? Subtopic 1: Facts of junk food Subtopic2: Effect of junk food Subtopic3: What is a solution to avoiding the harmful effects of eating too much junk food? 4) Looking at the subtopic list – how many body paragraphs would you assume there are. There are three paragraphs in my essay 5) Write the topic sentence for paragraph 1 here. Today, fast food is one of the essential needs of human which gives them quick energy and save time. Besides, each of us needs to know about facts of fast food. There are a lot of the truth about junk food such as high sugar, quick service, high in fat . . . but especially junk food is cheaper and low nutrient....
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...meaning of writing. As I go through the year, I understand more and more of why we write. When I first came into this class, I only knew what Mr. Shambaugh and Mr. Riise had taught us last year about writing. I felt like I have grown dramatically with my writing. I know use stronger words when writing an essay that means something. As well as that, I know enjoy writing long pieces or even short essays. This semester taught me how to improve on being a writer, and how to open my mind to new things. While first proceeding through this class, I had no idea how I would feel writing essays every other day. I felt like I was going to be miserable and get behind fast. In the beginning, I knew I had to come up with a better attitude and put my mind into my work. When we first had an essay due, I was a little nervous because I did not know what you expected of us. Now, I write my papers the night before it is due usually and I do not hesitate to press submit. While in English 111/112, you have...
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...edition Writing essays The language that we use for writing essays is often more formal than the language that we use in conversation. The next four pages give you help with the more formal type of language that is usually used in writing. They give words and phrases that will help you to write your ideas clearly and naturally, and in a way that is suitable for an essay. Saying what you agree with You will first need to read the essay title carefully, and decide what you agree or disagree with about it or whether you think it is true. Use these words and phrases to say what you agree with or what you think is true about the statement: Certainly . . . It is certainly true that . . . It is certainly the case (= true) that . . . Examples: An example essay You could be asked to write many different types of essays in English during the course of your studies. These may include factual essays, descriptive essays or stories. You may also be asked to write letters, emails, reports or pages from a diary as writing exercises. The phrases below all relate to the language you might want to use in a discursive essay (= an essay in which you are asked to discuss something). The title of the example essay is: ‘Despite the increased availability of ‘healthy’ food and our greater knowledge of what makes a healthy diet, we are fatter and less healthy than ever before.’ Discuss. Before you start Make sure you understand what you are expected to do in writing the essay. If you do not understand...
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...imagined and what I was actually experiencing. My English 1A class involved academic writing essay. In the class, there are people who come from different countries surround me. I felt nervous and began to second guess myself about writing skills. In this class, I should write eight essay in total, and I knew I failed the class already. But I didn’t give up, because I just want to improve myself. Writing in other language with academic knowledge is the most difficult part in my university life. There are four in class essay, which I should wrote it in the class by forty-five minutes at least 800 words, but I did not make it even once. My classmates are huge different with me, they wrote essay real fast. I felt nervous when I siting nearby them and wrote essay. Peer pressure pushed me cannot thinking about essay. I don’t like writing essay in the public place or people look at me. I always wrote out class in the midnight with coffee. It was real quite and I can focus on the essay. Even I still did the terrible work. The big problem that was writing grammar and mechanics. Because it is my first time to study the official writing class in the America. It was totally different with learned in China. I studied how to write the story. Fast writing and free writing. Even basic writing skills were new for me. I still remember the first essay that I wrote. The errors were through up whole essay was the comment in my final draft. I always had trouble with mechanics. Even I did not make...
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...ENGLISH ESSAY WRITING FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS 1. GENERAL ADVICE a. READ the title of the essay carefully and make sure that you understand it. If necessary, underline key words in the title. REMEMBER: if your essay does not cover the topic(s) proposed in the title, your mark will be very low. b. WRITE AN ESSAY PLAN. You can do this in English or in your mother tongue – but remember that you must be sure that you can express your ideas easily in English. In your essay plan you should note down specific vocabulary related to the topic. You should also write down any appropriate CONNECTORS (linkers). At first, you will find writing an essay plan difficult and time-consuming, but with practice it will save you time in the end and will also help you to organise your ideas in coherent paragraphs. EXAMPLE OF AN ESSAY PLAN: What are the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones? 1. INTRODUCTION: Now everybody has a mobile. What happened in the past? There are pros and cons. 2. PARAGRAPH 1: Advantages Immediate contact with family and friends. Good in emergencies. Many news uses – technology is developing. 3. PARAGRAPH 2: Disadvantages Bad for our health; addictive. Not sociable? What happens in schools? 4. CONCLUSION: Good and bad aspects. My opinion. KEY WORDS: technology, technological, developments, to keep in touch with someone, text messages, (on) the Internet, health, healthy, unhealthy, good//bad manners, to be banned. POSSIBLE LINKERS: Contrast...
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...students who have to write essays. Don't you hate essays with extreme passion? All through school, teachers make their students write essays, essays, and more essays. They expect their students to have an opinion on whether a story fits the ironic vision or not, or something like that, but the student probably doesn't even care. People should just stop writing essays. First of all, essays are so formal. We have an exact formula on how an essay should be written. If you were writing an essay right now, first, you would do your intro, with their thesis at the end of it, then they have their three paragraphs of proof, and finally, after two hours of writing, they have their conclusion. Come on people, live a little! We are in college! Be wild! Do what you want to do! Put your thesis at the very end of the essay, or better yet, leave your thesis out of the essay. Then, we have extra little rules, within the formula, that we have to follow. For example, while writing some types of essays, we have a rule about not saying "I." What am "I," chopped liver? Do I have to become this nameless, faceless, mystery person, only to get people to listen to me? Also, what about using "you?" I mean, it's "you" that's reading my essay, isn't it? Who else would it be? Am I talking to myself? We all have a tendency to use "you" and/or "I" in our essays because it is in our daily communications with each other. So, if we are not practicing our daily communications, while writing essays, then what are we practicing...
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...Tips for a Great College Essay Why write an essay? The purpose of the essay is to convince admission officers whom you’ve never met, in less than ten minutes, that you would be a good match for their colleges. At the most basic level, it allows admission officers to evaluate your communication and writing skills. In addition, the essay allows admission officers to discover more about you as a person – a side of you not shown by statistics like grades and SATs. The essay gives information about your history, attitudes, interests and creativity; it gives a sense of your values and goals. What admission officers are doing is creating a community…looking to see how you would fit in that community, what would you bring to that community and what sets you apart. How the essay is evaluated • • • Is your writing mechanically sound? Is your writing style comfortable? Can you write a good sentence? Can you write a good paragraph? Do you address the question asked? Can you form a thesis? Can you discuss a theme? Is your argument logical? Can you get in and out of the essay with some finesse? Do you write with style, nuance and creativity? Do you write with a distinctive voice? Choosing a topic Choose the essay topic that appeals to you most. The topic is less important than your delivery Remember: there is no right or wrong answer. The college just wants to know who you are and how your mind works. Bad essay topics - there are bad essays, not bad topics; but be...
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...Tips for a Great College Essay Why write an essay? The purpose of the essay is to convince admission officers whom you’ve never met, in less than ten minutes, that you would be a good match for their colleges. At the most basic level, it allows admission officers to evaluate your communication and writing skills. In addition, the essay allows admission officers to discover more about you as a person – a side of you not shown by statistics like grades and SATs. The essay gives information about your history, attitudes, interests and creativity; it gives a sense of your values and goals. What admission officers are doing is creating a community…looking to see how you would fit in that community, what would you bring to that community and what sets you apart. How the essay is evaluated • • • Is your writing mechanically sound? Is your writing style comfortable? Can you write a good sentence? Can you write a good paragraph? Do you address the question asked? Can you form a thesis? Can you discuss a theme? Is your argument logical? Can you get in and out of the essay with some finesse? Do you write with style, nuance and creativity? Do you write with a distinctive voice? Choosing a topic Choose the essay topic that appeals to you most. The topic is less important than your delivery Remember: there is no right or wrong answer. The college just wants to know who you are and how your mind works. Bad essay topics - there are bad essays, not bad topics; but be careful about the following:...
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...EN 101. A process essay is a document of one’s procedures and observations, it can also explain a series of steps and events. In order to write a proper essay, is crucial to for the paper to contain a clear and firm thesis or purpose. This essay contains a narrative called, “Stripped for Parts.” Published by Jennifer Kahn, a graduate of Princeton and the University of California. Kahn’s purpose of writing this article was to enlighten the people of today’s society of the hazardous process of an organ transplant harvest procedure. A majority people assume that harvesting organs is a simple task, Kahn even mentioned early on in her documentation that she expected the procedure to be a fast paced surgery that would immediately heal the patient miraculously. When she observed the process and came into the realization that it was an extremely complicated procedure, it was almost as if Kahn felt as if she had a duty or responsibility to bring light to the subject. Kahn tried to get in touch with the audience’s emotions by stating a quote from a surgeon she interviewed, Charles Murray, “You tell yourself it’s for a good cause, which it is, a very good cause, but you’re still...
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...Cultural History Essay Essay: 100 points Length: 8-10 pages (2000-2500 words) Sources: 8-10 sources from a variety of places, each source must be represented in the paper by either a direct quotation or a paraphrase. There should be close to an equal number of direct quotations and paraphrases. Due Date: April 5th Description: This essay is more complex than the research project but it should also be more fun. For this assignment you need to choose the topic you will write about. But this topic must have both Personal and Cultural significance. That is, you need to find a topic that means something to you personally and a topic that you can do research about. You must write about something that has a history with you personally and something that has a history within our culture. When you write your essay, you will need to relate your history with this object. This will be the personal narrative portion. This should make up between 2 and 3 pages of your overall essay. Then you need to discuss the cultural history of the subject—how it was first discovered, who invented it, how it got to America, and then bring it all the way up to today. You can research things like cigarettes, pop, fast food, guitars, cars, or beer even—anything you want. You just have to be able to tell a story about the subject, research it, and connect your story to that research part of the essay. The difficult...
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...sentence brings the paragraph to a close and sums up its content. It ties the ideas of the paragraph together and gives the reader a sense of closure. * Most paragraphs are organized in one of five ways: 1.) General to particular, 2.)Chronologically (by time), 3.)Spatially (by physical arrangement), 4.)From one extreme to another Limited topic + controlling idea= topic sentence Module 2 Every essay consists of several easily recognizable parts: a title, an introduction, a thesis statement, several body paragraphs, and a conclusion. A title is a phrase, usually no more than a few words, that gives a hint about the subject, purpose, or focus of what is to follow in the essay. The introduction to your essay—your first paragraph—should introduce your subject and stimulate your audience's interest. This paragraph essentially tells readers what the essay is going to cover without going into detail or discussing specifics. Your thesis statement includes the topic of the essay and your opinion about that topic. Your opinion about the topic is the controlling idea of the essay. The body paragraphs explain and support the thesis statement. Each body paragraph covers one major...
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...Handwriting Without Tears Writing is something that can start up the brain like nothing else, even in this great time of e-mails, texts and tweet. To write in cursive is basically now a gift because of how much we use our electronics. Cursive handwriting can start up the brain between the left and right sides, something absent from printing and typing. The College Board found that students who wrote in cursive for the essay portion of the test scored higher than those who printed. As a result, writing makes you very smart. A few years ago, the College Board found that students who wrote, in cursive for the essay size of the test scored bit higher than those who wrote, which experts think is because the speed of writing in cursive allowed...
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...Edith Cowan University Academic essay Academic Tip Sheet This academic tip sheet: • explains the academic essay as an academic style of writing; • looks at the structure of an academic essay; • looks at the main types of academic essays; • explains how to write an academic essay; and • provides you with a quick checklist that covers most aspects of writing an academic essay. CRICOS IPC 00279B What is an academic essay? For our purposes, we can define an academic essay as a document that has a defined structure – an introduction, a body and a conclusion. What are the main types of academic essays? If we look at the intent of the academic essay we can define three main types: • Descriptive – describes a subject, e.g.; a person, place or event. • Expository – explains a concept or theory. • Argumentative – presents an argument through reasoning and the use of evidence. 01/08 The argumentative essay Most academic essays will require you to present an argument through reasoning and the use of evidence. In the process of planning and drafting your essay, you will need to respond to the assigned question by thinking, reading and writing your way to a considered position/stance, or thesis statement. The thesis statement is expressed as one or two sentences in the introductory paragraph of your essay, and supported in the body of the essay by a series of topic sentences, one in each paragraph. Each topic sentence is in turn supported by evidence and examples from...
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...English 101.3732/3772/MAT 096 Cluster—Public Health and Nutrition Spring 1 2009/ Andrew McCormick, Instructor Final In-Class Essay: Fast Food Nation Choose one of the topics below, and brainstorm, plan and write an argumentative, thesis-driven essay of at least 600 words. You may use your copy of FFN; you will have two hours. Your essay, as always, should: ✓ Provide a short, separate introduction that presents the issue and then segues into an explicit thesis with several concrete reasons to back it up. ✓ Develop each reason in a body paragraph that offers textual evidence (quotes and/or paraphrases) and your own analysis of the issue. ✓ Provide a conclusion summarizing your main points and leaving a closing thought. □ Don’t forget to proofread for grammar errors, as they can bring your grade down. Good luck! Topic A: Fast Food and Worker Safety In the Fast Food Nation chapter “The Most Dangerous Job,” Eric Schlosser describes the gruelling, exploitive, injury-laden, low-paying jobs of meat-packing workers who handle the cattle that eventually become hamburgers. Schlosser explains how—for different reasons—the OSHA has been unable to enforce effective safety regulations needed to protect workers. Based on this chapter, discuss why the OSHA must have stricter regulations for the meatpacking industry. How has the OSHA been disempowered? To what extent has this federal agency’s enforcement abilities been reduced, and with what consequences? How...
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...ELS Effective Learning Service Essay Writing For appointments contact: els@qmu.ac.uk or elsinternational@qmu.ac.uk web: www.qmu.ac.uk/ELS Contents Page What do tutors want to see in an essay? 2 What are the key stages in writing an essay? 2 What is an essay? 3 The structure of an essay 4 Analyse the task 5 Make a structure plan 6 Reading and researching 7 Reflect and evaluate – refine your plan 8 Writing the first draft 9 What is a paragraph? 10 Signalling words within paragraphs 11 Linking ideas between paragraphs 12 Writing the introduction 13 Writing the conclusion 14 Academic writing style – a very brief guide 16 Planning an essay – a mindmap with an overview 17 1 What do tutors want to see in an essay? • that you have understood the question • that you have structured the work clearly and logically • that you show evidence of relevant reading What are the key stages in writing an essay? • analyse the task • ask yourself what you know and need to know about the topic • make a plan of the structure of essay • read and research and note-take • reflect on and refine your plan • write the first draft – main body, then introduction and conclusion • plan your time and set goals This leaflet will outline the key stages you need to go through and will also show you how to write a good paragraph, an introduction, and a conclusion. Subject preferences may vary. It is always a good idea to check the preferred format for your...
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