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The Writing Process

The Writing Process. The Draft; Conclusion. The Writing Process. The Pre Write The Draft Edit Revise Publish/Share. The Conclusion. Your conclusion is your opportunity to wrap up your essay in a tidy package and bring it home for your reader .

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The Writing Process

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  1. The Writing Process The Draft; Conclusion

  2. The Writing Process • The Pre Write • The Draft • Edit • Revise • Publish/Share

  3. The Conclusion • Your conclusion is your opportunity to wrap up your essay in a tidy package and bring it home for your reader. • Include a brief summary of the paper's main points. • Recapitulate what you said in your Thesis Statement in order to suggest to your reader that you have accomplished what you set out to accomplish. Take a bow!

  4. Conclusion cont. • Do not, in any case, simply restate your thesis statement in your final paragraph. • Having read your essay, we should understand this main thought with fresh and deeper understanding, and your conclusion wants to reflect what we have learned. What did you achieve with your essay?

  5. Try One of These On for Size! • Ask a provocative question. • Use a quotation. • Evoke a vivid image. • Call for some sort of action. • End with a warning. • Universalize (compare to other situations). • Suggest results or consequences.

  6. Conclusion Exercise • For an instant conclusion just add… • A. Explain how the specifics in your body paragraphs support your thesis. • B. State a conclusion or action that should be taken based upon the opinion. • A + B = Conclusion

  7. Example (by an old famous guy): • I have not here been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought.(A) Stuart Chase and others have come near to claiming that all abstract words are meaningless, and have used this as a pretext for advocating a kind of political quietism. Since you don't know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism? One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognize that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself. (B) Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and useless phrase — some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test, veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse — into the dustbin, where it belongs.

  8. Have You Seen Me? • Did you find any of these from the previous paragraph? • Ask a provocative question. • Use a quotation. • Evoke a vivid image. • Call for some sort of action. • End with a warning. • Universalize (compare to other situations). • Suggest results or consequences.

  9. Using Figurative Language in Essays • You will write many important essays throughout your life • College Admittance Essays • Midterms • Work and other future endeavors These all share one thing in common

  10. They All Benefit from Figurative Language! • Strong and lively language can help strengthen your point • Your reader is more inclined to be persuaded by your point if you use strong language

  11. Dull Language Vs Lively Language • My position at Mystery Firm XYZ gave me opportunities to work under demanding situations”. • Like a maelstrom at sea, Mystery Firm XYZ involved many chaotic and demanding situations. Having prevailed through them all, I have been prepared for all future endeavors.

  12. Some Tips For Descriptive Essays • Use Sensory Language • Try to appeal to all the senses • Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch • Sensory language brings text to life • Sensory language conjures memories within the reader, deepening their involvement • Especially sight and smell

  13. Use Active, Descriptive Verbs • The kite went up • The kite soared above. • The path led into the forest. The twisting, turning path led into the thick, darkened forest.

  14. Be Specific • Like a maelstrom at sea, Mystery Firm XYZ involved many chaotic and demanding situations. Having prevailed through them all, I have been prepared for all future endeavors. • What situations? Give an example and describe. Why was it demanding? How did you prevail?

  15. Use Figurative Language in Your Essay! • Paint us a picture! • See if there is any place in your essay where you can add figurative language to strengthen your argument…

  16. Homework! Yay! • Take you’re A + B = Conclusion home tonight. • Add one or two of our “Wanted” ideas. • Combine to create a finished concluding paragraph. • Please bring your introduction and body paragraphs with you to class. • We are in the home stretch!

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