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Crafting Essays: A Guide to Timed Writing in 30 Minutes

This guide provides a structured approach to writing essays within a 30-minute time frame. It focuses on the essential components: crafting a strong thesis paragraph with sub-thesis points, development of supporting paragraphs, and a clear conclusion. Utilizing Tim O’Brien’s perspective from "The Things They Carried" as an example, the guide illustrates how to express complex emotions and themes of integrity and societal pressure in writing. This template serves as a valuable resource for students to improve their writing skills and manage their time effectively during exams.

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Crafting Essays: A Guide to Timed Writing in 30 Minutes

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  1. Potential Pen Purposefully Pointed… Poised over vast expanse. Clean. White. Temporarily barren. Perfect stillness. Focused. Pensive. Thoughts burst forth. Words take on new meaning.

  2. Essay & Paragraph Template30 Minute Timed Writing Paragraph #1: Thesis Paragraph Includes Thesis Sentence & 2 Sub-Thesis Points Paragraphs #2-4: Support & Development Topic Sentence (Sub-Thesis Point) Explanation Illustration Transition Paragraph #5: Conclusion Wrap-up & Restate

  3. Rewrite Exemplar: 30 minute in-class essay Tim O’Brien felt he was a coward for going to war because he gave in to outside opinions. His statement, “I was a coward. I went to war,” illustrates his feelings in that he allowed societal pressures to overrule what he felt in his heart was correct. The result of O’Brien’s lack of integrity creates doubt, fear, and guilt. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien becomes a metaphor for situational morality.

  4. Rewrite Exemplar: 30 minute in-class essay In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien becomes a metaphor for situational morality. Tim O’Brien felt he was a coward for going to war because he gave in to outside opinions. His statement, “I was a coward. I went to war,” illustrates his feelings in that he allowed societal pressures to overrule what he felt in his heart was correct. The result of O’Brien’s lack of integrity creates doubt, fear, and guilt.

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