A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF 'HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY' -- part of in-class lecture on Friday:
1. Choose your topic and what down what you know about that topic -- use the sheet for Paper 1 to formulate your thesis.
2. List what you know and come up with convincing support for each aspect of that knowledge.
3. Brainstorm about historical/cultural influences that may be important to the topic -- i.e. The Accident - Chinese culture; Girl, Antiguan society, colonialism; etc.
4. Focus on the most important aspects on your list -- use them as topic sentences.
5. Why do you care about the topic? Why should the reader care about the topic?
6. How do you plan to make the reader care about your paper?
7. What are you going to teach the reader in the paper? Why is your paper important?
People are forced into stereotypes everyday because of the way the world works today and in the short story “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid, a child is forced into a stereotype to please society.
ReplyDeletethis is my thesis statement
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That is excellent! That is a strong, arguable statement that you will be able to strongly support using examples from the text. Don't forget a Literative document quote. Good job!
ReplyDelete(P.S. "everyday" is this context is two words).