...Characteristics of Expository Essays What Characteristics make these essays expository? The two essays I chose to read were “Cochlear Implants” and “How to Clean a Fish.” When reading “How to Clean a Fish” the characteristics that make this an expository essay is that the author used facts to back up his or her opinion. The essay was very informational and used a great deal of detail on “How to Clean a Fish”; also the essay broke it down for you with diagrams and details. The essay was also presented in a non-bias manner. When reading “Cochlear Implant” the characteristic that make this an expository essay is that the author uses the facts to back up his or her opinion, the essay is very informational and gives examples of why the implants will work for someone that was deaf. This essay also was presented in a non-bias manner as well. Indentify the type of organizations each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process? Why do you think each author chose that type of organization for his or her essay? In what ways does this organizations choice make the essay effective? What effect might the author have achieved with another type of organization or another type of expository essay? I believe the author in “How to Clean a Fish” uses the informative process to arrange his or her essay. The author chose this process because his or her essay is on “How to” essay, what this means is that the essay is meant to teach...
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...Effective Essay Writing 14 August 2011 What characteristics make these essays expository? Art of Cookery This is definitely an expository essay because it is actually listing steps to successful restaurant. The thesis at the beginning of the essay states the reasoning behind why the following steps are needed to create an attractive dining experience. The steps are mostly relating to how the dining area is set up. How to Filet a Fish This expository essay was an informative piece that detailed the parts of fish and how to filet it for food. The essay tells how different fish are cut and prepared. The best part about this essay was that it gives details on whether it is appropriate to filet or steak or cook the fish whole. Identify the type of organization each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process. I believe that the “Art of Cookery” essay is a topic essay because it organizes the logical things needed to set up an attractive dining area. It was difficult deciding if this was topic or informative process but since it didn’t seem to list the data in step by step process I felt that topic seemed more accurate. Topic and informative essays seem to me to be similar and may be easily confused. The “How to Filet a Fish” essay is most definitely an Informative essay. The essay tells exactly “how to” decide what cut is appropriate for what type and size. The essay meets all...
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...The essay that I chose to analyze is titled, “The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality” written by Walter Benn Michaels. The author’s main purpose of this essay is to persuade others to look at the differences in our human races from another perspective. The author’s main point of the essay is that our human race isn’t what makes each individual different, it’s what we have in our lives that differentiates us from everybody else. The author is successful by persuading his audience by using these three elements; the expression used, the target audience, and the evidence used for support. Before fully jumping into analyzing this essay, it is important to understand exactly what the essay is about. As...
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...The informative and narrative essay “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town” by Kathleen Norris focuses on a small town community in the Dakotas in order to explain a bigger picture on how American society does not want to highlight failures and mistakes from the past. Norris conveys many individuals apart of this community have been trying to remember things the way they want to than how things actually are in reality, and therefore the community masks the truth and hides their history. On the other side of the spectrum, the informative and revealing essay “A Secret Society of the Starving” by Mim Udovitch validates the way individuals, especially young girls, engage themselves in dangerous activities and behaviors because of the familiar environment they have with others who can relate to them. Specifically in Udovitch’s essay, she targets a population of young girls who have an eating disorder and seek an emotional understanding within others on websites that promote an eating disorder community by sharing their experiences. Norris and Udovitch present different issues regarding communities in their essays, but they both explain that acceptance in American society affects how people cope with their problems, how they tell the truth, and what crucial details of their stories they leave out for others to hear. In both essays, females are pushed to follow their role in society if they want to fit in with the rest of their community. In Norris’s essay, she focuses on the expectations...
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...Juxtaposition “Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery” is a quote by the famous scholar, W.E.B. DuBois. The two essays, The Charter of Freedom in Brazil and the Gradual Abolition and the Dynamics of Slave Emancipation in Cuba, 1868-1886, shows two slavery occupied countries as they progress into a dissimilar era. Though both of these essays have numerous similarities, such as speaking about population decreases and the class system; both also have differences, for example, they focus on different ideas such as, social dynamics and routes to freedom. The definition of similar is “almost the same as someone or something else” (Similar).Thus, as previously stated, the essays on Brazil and Cuba are...
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...How to Write an Essay Plan 1. Before you can begin to select material for your essay, you need to make sure that you understand the exact requirements of the question. The following method of title analysis encourages you to break the question down into clearly identifiable elements so that you can accurately see what the question requires. 2. What is your answer to the essay question? 3. What main points will you discuss in order to support your argument? 4. In what order will you discuss your main points? 5. How long will you spend discussing each main point? 6. What information will each paragraph contain (i.e. what information will you use to discuss each of your main points)? 7. What references will you use to support your argument? Many students make the mistake of thinking that, having read around their subject, they can immediately start writing. Essays written in this way are sometimes poorly structured and poorly organised, resulting in lower marks. You will ultimately save time and effort, as well as maximise your chances of success, if you write a good essay plan. Planning takes place at a number of different levels which reflect the structures within an essay. Every essay has a macrostructure, that is, the overall organisation of the written material into major components. Essays also have a microstructure, that is, the way in which particular points are argued within sections, and the way in which one point should lead on to the next. Ideally, you...
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...Throughout my life, writing was always a challenging subject to me. Although I may not be able to write as well as others, I have enhanced my writing skills. As I was assigned to write a great amount of essays in this English course, I realized that my writing has improved immensely. This course has taught me how to write various types of essays, for example, rhetorical analysis, review, report, and reader responses. Every essay has different requirements and different components to include. By using these skills to compose an essay, I am capable of improving my writing and noticing my strengths and weaknesses. Every year, my writing skills improve little by little due to the amount of practice from writing essays. In every essay, there was...
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...|Analysing an Essay Question | 1. Introduction Common criteria of undergraduate essay writing focus on the following requirements: students need to be analytical and critical in their response students need to structure their writing logically students need to be persuasive writers | students need to answer the question | This booklet looks at, how to analyse your essay question. Other Learning Centre booklets in this series deal with the other aspects: • Analytical Writing deals with the difference between analytical and descriptive writing • Planning and Structuring an Essay deals with logical structures • Developing and Supporting an Argument deals with persuasion Expectations of student assignments One of the difficulties experienced by students, particularly in first year, is understanding what standard is expected in essays at tertiary level. As well as this, each subject discipline has its own ways of doing things and its own conventions about essay structure and writing style. For instance, in some subjects it is acceptable to write very personally and put forward your own opinions and feelings on a topic and in others such a personal response would not be appropriate. You need to find out the expectations and conventions...
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...Axia College Material Characteristics of the Expository Essay What Is an Essay? An essay, or personal-opinion paper, is an important part of your college experience because it requires critical thinking as well as organization and research. Essay is a broad term. Sometimes an essay is just a page long; sometimes, essays are five pages or longer. Essays, however, focus on a single subject and idea. They also have different purposes: to persuade, explain, or entertain. Consider the following essay titles: • “Why You Should Never Vote for a Democrat” • “My Friend Harry Reasoner” • “Cells Phones: Getting the Most for the Least” • “Gay Marriage Does Not Hurt Traditional Marriage” • “How to Write an Essay” How would you categorize the essays above based on the titles? Is “Why You Should Never Vote for a Democrat” a persuasive essay or an entertaining one? Does “How to Write an Essay” explain or persuade? Even within a classification, writers use different types of development and have multiple purposes for their essays. Essay Classifications Writers classify essays in different ways. The following table includes common types of essays as well as examples: |Type of Essay |Definition |Example | | | | ...
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...CMM 801: Journalism and Communication Theory Academic Essay Writing An essay is best approached as an intellectual argument that develops from the ideas, issues, theories, concepts, methodologies, etc., you have been taught within the module for which it is the final assessment. It is most important therefore – even as you begin and then progress through the module – that you are clear about the fundamental perspectives, values and assumptions underpinning the course’s main themes and topics as they are being presented to you in lectures and seminars. Remember no theory or perspective has the whole picture. All accounts of the world are partial and biased from a particular understanding of how we are human and what society is. Such-and-such a view is only the case under certain conditions. A prime purpose for an essay is to critique particular ideas, pointing out how explanation A might be more useful and valid than B in these circumstances. In the conclusion of your essay, on the other hand, you might want to point out that in other contexts (social, cultural, eras, etc.) there may be other factors that need to be considered. Do these limit or question the weight of claims you have made in the development of your current argument? Key questions before you embark on writing your essay • Have you identified clearly the key issue the essay question wants scrutinised? • Have you checked the command word in the question – e.g. explain means give details about why...
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...that put the “United” in the United States. Through a well-organized essay, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible,” David Brooks describes the diverse ways of life between Republicans and Democrats. Brooks effectively uses strong nonbiased points to assist the reader in agreeing and understanding his every thought. This allows Brooks to easily reach his intended audience- anyone interested in the diverse ways of life between Republicans and Democrats. America is a united nation despite the differences between people and their culture. This idea of one united nation, that is slightly divisible, is portrayed effectively through Brooks’s essay. “One Nation, Slightly Divisible” has a title that directly introduces the topic of the essay. The organization throughout Brooks’s essay is clear and all of his ideas are well thought out. “One Nation, Slightly Divisible” begins with a short excerpt about Brooks’s background, giving the reader the ability to know Brooks on a more personal level and understand where his experiences are coming from. Brooks uses a gripping first sentence that makes the reader want to read more. This first sentence states, “Sixty-five miles from where I am writing this sentence is a place with no Starbucks, no Pottery Barn, no Borders or Barnes & Noble” (487). This is an effective way of drawing the reader in because it makes the reader think about where Brooks physically wrote the essay, and draws the reader further into the piece. He begins by describing...
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...Transferability Writing is something that everyone does. Whether one likes it or not, they end up using their words. People tend to write about subjects that interest or relate to them. Everyone has their own way of writing, but their way was influenced by another source whether they know it or not. Individuality in writing is influenced through transferability. Technical writing is something that is learned. In school everyone was taught how to format an essay or different types of writing like poems or stories. Anything that I did in class I was always given a template of how the instructor wanted the paper to be written. This would have word count, the format, and what the paper should be about. All throughout school we learned the fundamentals of writing starting with letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, to structures of writing like essays and poems. The thing that is learned from writing is technical. As my English education grows the technical side is less focused on while the content is the most important thing. Content is the writing that I am doing now. The content portion of writing is not learned but influenced by others. My writing becomes influenced through examples like essays. In this English class, I believe that that’s how these three previous essays worked out. The Scholarly Discourse Unit paper was a paper that had us synthesize how we thought the writers Gee, Swales, and Porter connected to each other. I used transferability to apply the knowledge that...
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...This is my essay Schools, colleges and universities are increasingly concerned about plagiarism because of the many ways that students can now cheat using various difficult to detect sources, which are not their own. All academic institutions impress on every single student the dangers of plagiarism and how severely they will be punished if plagiarised material is discovered in their work. This can be really terrifying especially if they are new to academic life. The problem is that everyone tells you about the dangers of plagiarism but nobody tells you how to solve it. You may not even know what plagiarism is and need an essay checker to point it out to you. Basically, plagiarism is taking someone else’s work and attempting to pass it off as your own and this kind of plagiarism can occur in two ways, both of which can be identified by an essay checker. * Plagiarism can be done deliberately, in which case it is not only against the rules of the schools, colleges and universities but it's also a crime, which is punishable by law. * It can also be done accidentally because you have failed to cite sources correctly or because you have been careless when taking notes and transferring them to your essay. This is especially likely when you are new to academic life or when you are doing extensive research into a subject. Viper, our free essay checker, will identify both of these and will help you to see where there are possible problem areas within your work, before your...
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...finalRhetorical Analysis Essay English 110-133 09/14/2015 A Critique of Alexis Sacarese's “Why the #$%! Do We Curse” In Alexis Sacareses's essay, “Why the #$%! Do We Curse” she explores the reasoning behind why we curse and argues the positive attributes cursing can play in our daily lives. By adding in facts and research done by professionals, she can argue her belief in a variety of different ways. Throughout this essay, Sacarese makes a strong essay by addressing despite the controversy, cursing can help us express our emotions, improve mental health, improve communication, and add creditably to our stories. Although, she makes a strong argument, and her paper is well written she fails to add statistics, lacks in pathos appeals, and uses a lot of redundancy throughout the essay. Alexis Sacarese is successful in getting her argument across in her essay because of the structure of her paper. Sacarese begins by grabbing in the reader with a hook in the introduction. She says, “Fucking Bastard!” My eyes grew wide and my muscles tightened as I heard my dad utter these words for the first time.” Immediately we are tied in and want to continue reading what she has to say. After getting the reader's attention she sets up her essay in a way that flows well. Sacarese first addresses where cursing came from and how it originated. Giving the reader background information about the topic helps us understand whether or not cursing really is a “bad” thing. Throughout the essay, Sacarese continuously...
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...2 AQA BIOL5: The synoptic essay AQA A2 Biology: Writing the Synoptic Essay by Dr Robert Mitchell CT Publications Copyright © Dr Robert Mitchell 2010 www.ctpublications.co.uk 0800 040 7901 Dr Robert Mitchell A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-907769-02-3 First published in May 2010 by CT Publications Copyright © Dr Robert Mitchell 2010 The right of Robert Mitchell to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright and Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher at the address below. Published in 2010 by CT Publications* 40 Higher Bridge Street Bolton Greater Manchester BL1 2HA Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 *CT Publications is owned by Chemistry Tutorials located at the same address. Copyright © Dr Robert Mitchell 2010 www.biologytutorials.co.uk 0800 040 7901 3 4 AQA BIOL5: The synoptic essay CONTENTS 1. Be aware of the task you face ............................................................................ 6 What is Synoptic? ........................................................................................... 6 Will I have to learn everything? ..............
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