english2d essay guide august 2010

8/8/2019 English2D Essay Guide August 2010

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The EssayENG 2D

Units 5 9

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Unit 5

Introduction to the Essay

Your teacher will review vocabulary relevant to the study of the essay form.These lessons will include:

Thesis Types of Essays Argument and Persuasion Argumentative Strategies Tone Informal vs. Formal

Your teacher will also provide lessons on essay analysis. As a class, you will

read and analyze an essay. Use the Essay Analysis Planner to record the details of thewhole-class analysis. You will also be required to individually write these details into aformal written analysis. The written analysis must include all of the headings on theEssay Analysis Planner. Your written report may also include headings. Full sentencesmust be used and sufficient supporting evidence must be provided. This analysis mustbe typed. Hand in the written analysis for completion.

Unit 5 is a completion assignment; no mark will be assigned. However, if youdon't address all of the points listed above, your teacher will return your work asincomplete. Furthermore, if it is apparent that your responses are cursory and

superficial, your teacher may ask you to resubmit or to complete an alternativeassignment.


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ENG2D Essay Analysis Planner

Use this planning sheet to help you identify the essay elements you need in your final report.

DO NOT HAND THIS SHEET IN AS YOUR REPORT! In your report, you must:

y Use the proper headings (thesis, type of essay, formal vs. informal, tone, argumentativestrategies) Check your guide for other details.

y Use complete sentences

y Use direct quotations as support and incorporate these quotations into a sentence

y Use at least 2 examples to support your answer for type of essay

y Use at least 1 example to support the style of essay

y Use at least 2 quotations with explanations to support your answer for tone

y Find at least 2 argumentative strategies (use quotations) and discuss their effectiveness

Essay Title: ______________________________________________________________

Author: _________________________________________________________________

Thesis (A clear, simple statement outlining the point the author is trying to make)

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Style of Essay: Formal Informal

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Type of Essay:

Cause & Effect Argumentative Persuasive Comparative

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Tone: __________________________________________________________________

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Explanation #1:

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Argumentative Strategies:

Argument by Example: YES NO

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Effectiveness (Provide an explanation of whether or not the device supports the thesis):

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Argument by Statistic: YES NO

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Argument by Authority: YES NO

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Argument by Anecdote: YES NO

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Unit 6

Jigsaw Essay Analysis

For this unit, you must participate in a group jigsaw activity where you will

analyse a given essay or editorial. If you are absent for this activity, you must completethe written portion of this assignment on your own and hand it in for assessment.

Step 1: Your teacher will provide you with a selection of short essays. Your task is toread these pieces before taking part in the group activity.

Step 2: The teacher will divide the class into home groups of four to six students. Eachhome group will be assigned one of the short essays. Your home group will analyzethat essay by identifying the following:

y Thesis

y Toney Argumentative strategies (at least two)

y Style of essay

Each member of the group will be given a chart to fill in. One group member will berequired to submit his or her copy of the chart for assessment of the groups work.Make sure to write ALL members names on this submitted sheet, for this writtencomponent will be assessed by the teacher and count towards unit completion.

Step 3: The teacher will divide the home groups up to create secondary groups. Thesesecondary groups must contain at least one member from every home group. Within

these secondary groups, each member will give a brief lesson on his or her homegroups assigned essay. Be sure to cover all of the above points (thesis, tone, etc.)

While each person in the secondary group delivers his or her lesson, the othersecondary group members must make appropriate notes on their photocopies of theessays.


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Unit 6 Group Essay Analysis

Title of Essay: ___________________________________________________

Thesis (explicit or implicit): Style of essay (provide explanation andexample):

Tone (provide explanation and example): Argumentative Strategies (identify two):

Names of group members:

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Unit 7

Research Essay Conference

- To complete this unit, you must schedule a time to conference with your teacher- You must bring a completed outline page (your teacher will give you an outline)

to this conference and be fully prepared to discuss your outline with your teacher- Students who come to a conference with an incomplete outline will not be

granted the unit (the meeting will be recorded as a brainstorming session).

Unit 8/9

Research Essay

Units 8 & 9 require you to work through the essay process (outline, conference,rough draft, good copy) and submit a formal, academic essay approximately 500 600words long. Your teacher will give you several lessons about how to approach thisassignment and how you will be evaluated.

Many of the essays that you studied for unit 6 are informal not formal. Mostessays written to entertain are informal, that is they use a personal voice and may havestructural elements not found in formal, academic papers. The essay that you write forthis assignment must be formal.

One of the key elements that your teacher is evaluating in this assignment is yourability to find and use key evidence. Once you've chosen a topic, use the VirtualLibrary link found at www.hwdsb.on.ca to conduct your research. Be sure to keep a

record of your research. If you take ideas from other sources and don't properlyreference youare plagiarizing; you must give credit to others for their ideas and notpresent them as if they were your own.

In order to properly reference you must use the MLA (Modern LanguageAssociation) approach. This will be required of you in English classrooms throughouthigh school and university. Your teacher will deliver a lesson that outlines this approachto referencing. See the handout that follows in this learning guide for more detail.


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The Short, Sweet Guide to Using MLA-style

Documentation

What is MLA-style documentation?

The Modern Languages Association (MLA) has come up with a useful system that you can useto reference research materials in an assignment.

How do I use MLA-style documentation?MLA-style documentation is very simple to use. At certain points in your essay or report, you

will insert citations. A citation is a piece of information contained within brackets that tells thereader (AND your teacher) where you obtained your information.

When should you use citations? The following points in your assignment are good places to

insert a citation:-If you use a direct quote (in quotation marks) from another book or source.

-If you have a paragraph that contains information that is not common knowledge.Common knowledge is information that many people would know. For instance, the fact that it

rains frequently in a rainforest would be common knowledge. The annual precipitation figuresfor Brazil would NOT be common knowledge, and you would have to cite your source for that

information.

How do I insert a citation?MLA format makes citations easy. Citations consist of two pieces of information:

1) the authors name (or the title of the book or article if the name isnt available)2) the page number that you obtained that information from (if available)

You put these two pieces of information in brackets, and insert these brackets at the end of the

sentence that contains the material requiring a citation. Usually, you put the brackets BEFOREthe final punctuation mark of the sentence.

For example, look at some of the following citations:

According to statistics, many young women prefer the colour red, while older women prefer blue(Smith 413).

Experts agree with this perspective. We cant stand around and wait for another tragedy to

strike, one scientist stated in an interview (Thorpe 35).

The Walrus said to the oysters, The time has come [] to talk of many things: of shoes and

ships and sealing-saw, of cabbages and kings (Carroll 180).

NOTE: If you refer to one book multiple times in a row, you only need to provide the page

number in your subsequent citations. The reader will automatically assume your citation is fromthe same work.

As you can see, not ALL of the bibliographical information is contained within a citation. For

more information, a reader (or your teacher) will have to consult yourbibliography.


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What does MLA-style bibliography look like?An MLA style bibliography is a separate sheet that is placed at the end of your assignment. On

this sheet, youll list all of the important information about the books youve consulted.

The title of your bibliography should be Works Cited.

You will list your sources in alphabetical order, sorted by the last name of the author. (If there isno author, or if the source has many authors, you will sort in alphabetical order by the name ofthe work.)

Here are some examples of how to list various types of sources in your bibliography. As a

general rule of thumb:

-FIRST, you list the authors name (last then first)-SECOND, you list the title of the book, article or website

-THIRD, if youre referring to an article, you list the name of the publication that you got the

article from (e.g. an encyclopedia, a newspaper, or a magazine)

-FOURTH, you list the publication information (closest location of publisher, name of publisher, and most recent date published). If your

source is from the Internet, you will list the date that you accessed the website, and the sites URL (the address of the website)

Here are some examples:

Book by one author:Trudeau, Pierre. Federalism and the French Canadians. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968.

Book by two or more authors:

Scardamalia, Marlene, Carl Bereiter, and Bryant Fillion. Writing for Results. Toronto: OISE, 1981.

Encyclopedia article:Shadbolt, Harris. Russia. Encyclopedia Brittanica. 1994 ed.

Website without an author:How to Install Fencing Properly. 23 Apr. 2007

Website with an author:

Langley, Bob. The Red Baron Info Site. 17 Jan. 2007

Website with an author from a major site:

Caldwell, Hank. The Strange World of Fish. The Discovery Channel Online. 19 Feb. 2007

When writing out your bibliography entries, its generally good form to INDENT the lines

following the first line of each entry. (Look at the entries above for guidance.)


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THE STRUCTURE OF A FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY

Thesis

Transition to next paragraph

Transition to next paragraph

Thesis

INTRODUCTION

CONCLUSION

Topic Sentence

Factual Evidence

Relationship to thesis

Topic Sentence

Factual Evidence


Topic Sentence

Factual Evidence


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