The document provides guidelines for writing in different formats for an examination. It describes the key elements and style that should be used for different types of writing, including formal letters, proposals, brochures, essays, newspaper articles, and magazine reviews. For each format, it emphasizes making the viewpoint clear, including relevant details and examples to support the argument, and using an appropriate tone and level of formality for the genre. The overall message is that examinations require demonstrating understanding of different writing styles and structures depending on the specific format or task.
The document provides information about unseen poetry and prose, including some of their key differences and features. It also discusses examiner advice related to answering questions on unseen texts, such as focusing on making observations and arguments linked together rather than using lists of technical terms or acronyms. Finally, it provides sample plans for answering questions about poems, including using topic, viewpoint and tone as an introduction framework.
Four key aspects that will help form the basis of an essay.Guerillateacher
Form refers to aspects beyond language meaning that help a text, such as capitalization, sentence length, dialogue, and formatting. It also includes patterns of sound and staging elements in plays. Content includes literal and figurative meanings of words as well as connotation, metaphor, pun, irony, and tone of voice. Structure is how meaning is built throughout a text to make it effective. Style is the conscious choice of language to suit an audience and purpose, and writers can develop recognizable individual styles.
This document provides an overview of a descriptive essay, including its purpose, genre, and guidelines for writing one. A descriptive essay asks students to describe an object, person, place, experience, or situation. It encourages creative writing using vivid language and sensory details to paint a clear picture or impression for the reader. The document outlines tips for writing a descriptive essay such as brainstorming, using concise language, choosing vivid words, including sensory details, leaving the reader with a clear impression, and being well-organized.
The document discusses the 6 traits of quality descriptive writing: ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, and conventions. It provides guidance on how to effectively employ each trait when writing descriptively, such as using vivid details, strong verbs, varied sentences, and an engaging voice. The goal of descriptive writing is to show experiences through imagery that engages the reader's senses rather than just telling about them.
This document provides guidance for students taking the GCSE Unseen Poetry unit. It will be externally examined, requiring students to write an essay comparing two contemporary poems. They will have one hour to plan and write their response. The essay will be marked out of 20 across three Assessment Objectives - AO1 for critical response, AO2 for analyzing language/structure, and AO3 for comparing poems. Tips are provided on how to approach the poems, including reading carefully and annotating, considering themes, mood, and personal response. A five-paragraph structure is suggested for the essay.
Presentation showing English teachers how to help their students write creatively for exams. Also useful for creative writing tutors for all age groups
The document provides guidance on writing a literary essay. It explains that a literary essay involves interpreting a literary work rather than summarizing its plot or elements. It discusses including an introduction with a clear thesis, body paragraphs that prove the thesis with examples and quotes from the work, and a conclusion that restates the thesis. The document also provides formatting guidelines for writing the essay, such as using MLA style and ensuring structural elements like a works cited page are included.
The document provides guidelines for writing in different formats for an examination. It describes the key elements and style that should be used for different types of writing, including formal letters, proposals, brochures, essays, newspaper articles, and magazine reviews. For each format, it emphasizes making the viewpoint clear, including relevant details and examples to support the argument, and using an appropriate tone and level of formality for the genre. The overall message is that examinations require demonstrating understanding of different writing styles and structures depending on the specific format or task.
The document provides information about unseen poetry and prose, including some of their key differences and features. It also discusses examiner advice related to answering questions on unseen texts, such as focusing on making observations and arguments linked together rather than using lists of technical terms or acronyms. Finally, it provides sample plans for answering questions about poems, including using topic, viewpoint and tone as an introduction framework.
Four key aspects that will help form the basis of an essay.Guerillateacher
Form refers to aspects beyond language meaning that help a text, such as capitalization, sentence length, dialogue, and formatting. It also includes patterns of sound and staging elements in plays. Content includes literal and figurative meanings of words as well as connotation, metaphor, pun, irony, and tone of voice. Structure is how meaning is built throughout a text to make it effective. Style is the conscious choice of language to suit an audience and purpose, and writers can develop recognizable individual styles.
This document provides an overview of a descriptive essay, including its purpose, genre, and guidelines for writing one. A descriptive essay asks students to describe an object, person, place, experience, or situation. It encourages creative writing using vivid language and sensory details to paint a clear picture or impression for the reader. The document outlines tips for writing a descriptive essay such as brainstorming, using concise language, choosing vivid words, including sensory details, leaving the reader with a clear impression, and being well-organized.
The document discusses the 6 traits of quality descriptive writing: ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, and conventions. It provides guidance on how to effectively employ each trait when writing descriptively, such as using vivid details, strong verbs, varied sentences, and an engaging voice. The goal of descriptive writing is to show experiences through imagery that engages the reader's senses rather than just telling about them.
This document provides guidance for students taking the GCSE Unseen Poetry unit. It will be externally examined, requiring students to write an essay comparing two contemporary poems. They will have one hour to plan and write their response. The essay will be marked out of 20 across three Assessment Objectives - AO1 for critical response, AO2 for analyzing language/structure, and AO3 for comparing poems. Tips are provided on how to approach the poems, including reading carefully and annotating, considering themes, mood, and personal response. A five-paragraph structure is suggested for the essay.
Presentation showing English teachers how to help their students write creatively for exams. Also useful for creative writing tutors for all age groups
The document provides guidance on writing a literary essay. It explains that a literary essay involves interpreting a literary work rather than summarizing its plot or elements. It discusses including an introduction with a clear thesis, body paragraphs that prove the thesis with examples and quotes from the work, and a conclusion that restates the thesis. The document also provides formatting guidelines for writing the essay, such as using MLA style and ensuring structural elements like a works cited page are included.
This document provides guidance on writing a descriptive essay. It explains that a descriptive essay uses sensory details like sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste to describe an object, place, or experience. It emphasizes showing rather than telling details. The structure includes an introduction with a thesis, three body paragraphs describing the subject, surroundings, and sensory/emotional experience, and a conclusion. Tips are given for planning, drafting, and revising a descriptive essay to provide a vivid impression for readers.
The document provides guidance on writing a narrative essay. It explains that a narrative essay tells a story from a personal experience using sensory and emotional details. It should have a clear plot, characters, setting, climax, and ending like any good story. The essay will make its point of view and thesis clear through the introduction and conclusion. Writers should use specific, vivid language to engage the reader and guide them through the narrative in a clear, organized way.
Descriptive paragraphs provide details that engage the five senses to help readers visualize what is being described. They often follow a spatial order arrangement, describing items from left to right and top to bottom to create a word picture. Signal words are used to indicate spatial relationships between objects within a descriptive paragraph. The topic sentence should name what is being described, while the controlling idea gives an overall impression, and details use adjectives to enhance the description.
An introduction to the Edexcel IGCSE English Literature Unseen poetry task - how to plan and write an essay under timed conditions on a poem you've never seen before.
This document provides guidance on writing poetry. It discusses that poetry can take various forms and cover any subject. When writing a poem, poets aim to concisely convey a feeling, idea, or experience in a way that engages readers. The document outlines best practices for writing poetry, such as focusing on a single topic, using vivid language, and incorporating literary devices like metaphors and rhyme. It then walks through the process of writing a poem, including prewriting, drafting, revising to add detail, and editing with a focus on proper punctuation.
The document provides guidance on writing effective narrative, descriptive, and sensory essays. It discusses including concrete details that appeal to the senses to help readers visualize the story or description. It also provides tips on choosing a topic, using vivid language, appealing to sight, sound, smell, touch and taste, and showing rather than telling to create a clear picture for the reader.
This document provides instructions for writing a descriptive essay. It explains that writers should first consider what they will describe, why they chose that subject, and how they will approach the description. When writing, authors should show rather than tell details using vivid descriptions of the five senses. The tips recommend planning the subject and perspective, drafting with sensory details, and revising to ensure a complete and coherent picture for the reader.
This document outlines a lesson on descriptive writing. It contains two key objectives: 1) explore ways to make writing descriptive through techniques like pre-modified nouns, verbs, and vocabulary; and 2) have students practice descriptive writing. The lesson provides examples of descriptive language techniques and prompts students to practice using these techniques in their own writing, such as describing a chocolate bar or a lonely character. It concludes by assigning a homework of finishing a descriptive paragraph.
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This document provides guidance on writing descriptive essays for college students. It explains that the goal is to thoroughly describe a person, place or thing using all five senses. The basic essay format outlined includes a thesis statement, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Descriptive essays aim to stimulate the reader's senses and show them the story through vivid language focused on the senses. An effective descriptive essay presents a clear idea and image to the reader through detailed sensory descriptions that allow the reader to visualize or experience what is being described.
A slideshow to support first year GCSE students to write a coursework essay examining Poe's use of tension in his short stories. It follows on from my slideshow 'The 10 Golden Rules of essay writing'
The document provides guidelines for writing a literary essay, including that it should provide an original interpretation of a literary work, not just summarize the plot. It outlines the key components of a successful literary essay such as an introduction with a clear thesis, body paragraphs with examples and quotes from the text to support the thesis, and a conclusion that restates the thesis. Proper formatting and citation guidelines are also reviewed.
The document provides guidance on how to write a successful literary analysis essay, including how to write an effective thesis statement, introduction, body paragraphs with topic sentences, and conclusion. It emphasizes using textual evidence such as summaries, paraphrases, specific details, and quotations to analyze the literary work and support the thesis.
To write an effective poetry essay, you must thoroughly analyze the poem by understanding its deeper meanings, language use, and structure. You should show how the poet conveys subtle messages through poetic devices and how the ideas develop coherently across the work. The essay should have an introduction, body paragraphs analyzing different elements like diction and theme, and a conclusion to clearly frame the analysis. Proper interpretation and close reading of figurative language are essential to developing a strong viewpoint.
1) This document provides instructions for setting up a OneNote workbook to complete class work on the novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar. Students are told to create an English OneNote folder with a section for their "Holes" class work and to make a new page for each lesson.
2) The document outlines 6 tasks for analyzing different elements of the novel based on the cover, including making predictions, analyzing setting, and close reading of the first chapter to examine the author's language choices.
3) Students are provided with discussion questions, activities, and templates to structure their analysis of how the author uses language to create setting and atmosphere in the first chapter.
This document provides instructions and guidelines for writing a descriptive paragraph. It explains that a descriptive paragraph uses descriptions and sensory details to help readers visualize the subject. It should have 3 parts: a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence. An example descriptive paragraph is given that describes a messy study room. Guidelines are provided for choosing a subject, forming an impression, using specific descriptive words, and writing a concluding sentence. The document ends by providing potential topics and instructing the reader to write their own descriptive paragraph.
This document provides guidance on writing a descriptive essay. It begins by defining a descriptive essay as intended to provide a vivid experience for readers using all five senses. It then outlines three important notes for before writing: have a clear purpose, know important details, and use senses beyond just sight. The document continues by offering topics, an outline structure of introduction, body, and conclusion, and tips for chronological descriptions and peer editing. It concludes by providing several examples of potential descriptive essay topics about places, people, experiences, memories, and objects.
The document discusses the difference between summary and analysis in academic writing. Summary involves concisely restating the key points of a text, but should be limited as it does not provide an original argument. Analysis requires breaking down a text and making an argument about how its parts work together to convey an overall meaning or theme. To write more analytically, writers should form their own thesis and use evidence from the text to support it rather than simply recounting plot points or arguments. The document provides strategies for writers to avoid relying too heavily on summary, such as developing an original argument, reading critically, and ensuring topic sentences and paragraphs analyze rather than describe.
This document provides guidance for a student assignment to produce two pieces of writing on the same theme but using different text types. It includes examples of short story and play script text types, and suggests travel writing and first chapter of a novel as additional types. The document outlines tasks for selecting a theme, writing statements of intent, developing multiple drafts, and submitting two final pieces for assessment based on coherence, idea development, and fluency. Suggested criteria for different achievement levels including convincing writing at Merit and attention-commanding writing at Excellence.
This document provides information on various writing techniques. It discusses the purpose of writing as a means of communication and self-expression. It then covers different types of writing such as descriptive writing, narrative writing, expository writing, persuasive writing, and objective writing. For each type, it provides definitions and examples. It also discusses techniques for good descriptive, imaginative, and persuasive writing. Overall, the document serves as a guide for different writing styles and how to effectively employ various techniques.
This document provides guidance on writing a descriptive essay. It explains that a descriptive essay uses sensory details like sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste to describe an object, place, or experience. It emphasizes showing rather than telling details. The structure includes an introduction with a thesis, three body paragraphs describing the subject, surroundings, and sensory/emotional experience, and a conclusion. Tips are given for planning, drafting, and revising a descriptive essay to provide a vivid impression for readers.
The document provides guidance on writing a narrative essay. It explains that a narrative essay tells a story from a personal experience using sensory and emotional details. It should have a clear plot, characters, setting, climax, and ending like any good story. The essay will make its point of view and thesis clear through the introduction and conclusion. Writers should use specific, vivid language to engage the reader and guide them through the narrative in a clear, organized way.
Descriptive paragraphs provide details that engage the five senses to help readers visualize what is being described. They often follow a spatial order arrangement, describing items from left to right and top to bottom to create a word picture. Signal words are used to indicate spatial relationships between objects within a descriptive paragraph. The topic sentence should name what is being described, while the controlling idea gives an overall impression, and details use adjectives to enhance the description.
An introduction to the Edexcel IGCSE English Literature Unseen poetry task - how to plan and write an essay under timed conditions on a poem you've never seen before.
This document provides guidance on writing poetry. It discusses that poetry can take various forms and cover any subject. When writing a poem, poets aim to concisely convey a feeling, idea, or experience in a way that engages readers. The document outlines best practices for writing poetry, such as focusing on a single topic, using vivid language, and incorporating literary devices like metaphors and rhyme. It then walks through the process of writing a poem, including prewriting, drafting, revising to add detail, and editing with a focus on proper punctuation.
The document provides guidance on writing effective narrative, descriptive, and sensory essays. It discusses including concrete details that appeal to the senses to help readers visualize the story or description. It also provides tips on choosing a topic, using vivid language, appealing to sight, sound, smell, touch and taste, and showing rather than telling to create a clear picture for the reader.
This document provides instructions for writing a descriptive essay. It explains that writers should first consider what they will describe, why they chose that subject, and how they will approach the description. When writing, authors should show rather than tell details using vivid descriptions of the five senses. The tips recommend planning the subject and perspective, drafting with sensory details, and revising to ensure a complete and coherent picture for the reader.
This document outlines a lesson on descriptive writing. It contains two key objectives: 1) explore ways to make writing descriptive through techniques like pre-modified nouns, verbs, and vocabulary; and 2) have students practice descriptive writing. The lesson provides examples of descriptive language techniques and prompts students to practice using these techniques in their own writing, such as describing a chocolate bar or a lonely character. It concludes by assigning a homework of finishing a descriptive paragraph.
Descriptive essay writing examples for college studentsDanielprice
This document provides guidance on writing descriptive essays for college students. It explains that the goal is to thoroughly describe a person, place or thing using all five senses. The basic essay format outlined includes a thesis statement, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Descriptive essays aim to stimulate the reader's senses and show them the story through vivid language focused on the senses. An effective descriptive essay presents a clear idea and image to the reader through detailed sensory descriptions that allow the reader to visualize or experience what is being described.
A slideshow to support first year GCSE students to write a coursework essay examining Poe's use of tension in his short stories. It follows on from my slideshow 'The 10 Golden Rules of essay writing'
The document provides guidelines for writing a literary essay, including that it should provide an original interpretation of a literary work, not just summarize the plot. It outlines the key components of a successful literary essay such as an introduction with a clear thesis, body paragraphs with examples and quotes from the text to support the thesis, and a conclusion that restates the thesis. Proper formatting and citation guidelines are also reviewed.
The document provides guidance on how to write a successful literary analysis essay, including how to write an effective thesis statement, introduction, body paragraphs with topic sentences, and conclusion. It emphasizes using textual evidence such as summaries, paraphrases, specific details, and quotations to analyze the literary work and support the thesis.
To write an effective poetry essay, you must thoroughly analyze the poem by understanding its deeper meanings, language use, and structure. You should show how the poet conveys subtle messages through poetic devices and how the ideas develop coherently across the work. The essay should have an introduction, body paragraphs analyzing different elements like diction and theme, and a conclusion to clearly frame the analysis. Proper interpretation and close reading of figurative language are essential to developing a strong viewpoint.
1) This document provides instructions for setting up a OneNote workbook to complete class work on the novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar. Students are told to create an English OneNote folder with a section for their "Holes" class work and to make a new page for each lesson.
2) The document outlines 6 tasks for analyzing different elements of the novel based on the cover, including making predictions, analyzing setting, and close reading of the first chapter to examine the author's language choices.
3) Students are provided with discussion questions, activities, and templates to structure their analysis of how the author uses language to create setting and atmosphere in the first chapter.
This document provides instructions and guidelines for writing a descriptive paragraph. It explains that a descriptive paragraph uses descriptions and sensory details to help readers visualize the subject. It should have 3 parts: a topic sentence, supporting details, and a concluding sentence. An example descriptive paragraph is given that describes a messy study room. Guidelines are provided for choosing a subject, forming an impression, using specific descriptive words, and writing a concluding sentence. The document ends by providing potential topics and instructing the reader to write their own descriptive paragraph.
This document provides guidance on writing a descriptive essay. It begins by defining a descriptive essay as intended to provide a vivid experience for readers using all five senses. It then outlines three important notes for before writing: have a clear purpose, know important details, and use senses beyond just sight. The document continues by offering topics, an outline structure of introduction, body, and conclusion, and tips for chronological descriptions and peer editing. It concludes by providing several examples of potential descriptive essay topics about places, people, experiences, memories, and objects.
The document discusses the difference between summary and analysis in academic writing. Summary involves concisely restating the key points of a text, but should be limited as it does not provide an original argument. Analysis requires breaking down a text and making an argument about how its parts work together to convey an overall meaning or theme. To write more analytically, writers should form their own thesis and use evidence from the text to support it rather than simply recounting plot points or arguments. The document provides strategies for writers to avoid relying too heavily on summary, such as developing an original argument, reading critically, and ensuring topic sentences and paragraphs analyze rather than describe.
This document provides guidance for a student assignment to produce two pieces of writing on the same theme but using different text types. It includes examples of short story and play script text types, and suggests travel writing and first chapter of a novel as additional types. The document outlines tasks for selecting a theme, writing statements of intent, developing multiple drafts, and submitting two final pieces for assessment based on coherence, idea development, and fluency. Suggested criteria for different achievement levels including convincing writing at Merit and attention-commanding writing at Excellence.
This document provides information on various writing techniques. It discusses the purpose of writing as a means of communication and self-expression. It then covers different types of writing such as descriptive writing, narrative writing, expository writing, persuasive writing, and objective writing. For each type, it provides definitions and examples. It also discusses techniques for good descriptive, imaginative, and persuasive writing. Overall, the document serves as a guide for different writing styles and how to effectively employ various techniques.
riting About LiteratureGenerally, the essays you write in lite.docxjoellemurphey
riting About Literature
Generally, the essays you write in literature courses attempt to answer interesting questions about works of literature. These questions are interesting for at least two reasons: a) their answers are not obvious, and b) their answers (or at least the attempt to answer them) can enrich other readers’ understanding and experience of those works of literature. Often works of literature seem to be intentionally posing these questions to us; they require us to do some work to get them to work.
Readers have asked many different types of questions of works of literature, for example:
· What did the author want to communicate in this work?
· What does the work reveal about the author’s feelings, opinions, or psychology?
· What does the work reveal about the society in which it was written?
· What can we learn from this work about the issues or topics it deals with?
· What motivates the characters in the work to behave as they do?
· How are literary devices used in the work?
· How does the work create emotional or intellectual experiences for its readers?
· Is this work good or bad?
· Is this work good or bad for its readers?
Some of these questions require information from outside the text itself; for example, to argue that a work reveals a writer’s psychological condition, it would be helpful to have some other evidence of that condition to corroborate your interpretation of the work of literature. Some of these questions ask about the world outside the work—about the author, his/her society, or our own society, for example—while others try to focus more on the features of the work itself. Analyses which try to make statements about the work itself is often calledformalist criticism: it attends more to the structures and strategies employed in the work. Ultimately, such arguments generally do try to move beyond the work, to claim, for instance, that it is likely to create certain effects in its readers, or that readers will understand the writer’s intent more clearly if they pay attention to its formal characteristic.
In LIT 100, we are going to be paying attention primarily to these formal features of literary works. In fiction, some of these features include tone, point of view, setting, character, etc. We will be paying less attention to extra-textual features, such as the author’s biography or the historical contexts in which the literature was produced and/or read; these elements are not less important than formal features, but they naturally vary greatly from one work to another and often require in-depth study to truly appreciate. To understand how Shakespeare’s social situation in London in the 1590s might have been reflected in his plays would require a whole course in Elizabethan history. On the other hand, the formal features we will be studying in this course can be found in literature of all eras and genres, though they may often be used to different effect by different writers at different times. A ...
This document is the syllabus for an intermediate fiction writing course. It outlines the course objectives, which include conveying an understanding of fiction techniques, accurately using terminology to discuss stories, offering revision advice, and writing and revising three original stories. It lists required texts and materials, including short story collections and podcasts. It describes the course assignments, which are three short stories using different points of view, several writing exercises, peer workshops and responses, and a final portfolio. It provides policies on readings, notebooks, feedback, workshops, and formatting assignments. The grading system is also outlined, with points allocated to assignments and workshops.
riting About LiteratureGenerally, the essays you write in litera.docxdaniely50
riting About Literature
Generally, the essays you write in literature courses attempt to answer interesting questions about works of literature. These questions are interesting for at least two reasons: a) their answers are not obvious, and b) their answers (or at least the attempt to answer them) can enrich other readers’ understanding and experience of those works of literature. Often works of literature seem to be intentionally posing these questions to us; they require us to do some work to get them to work.
Readers have asked many different types of questions of works of literature, for example:
What did the author want to communicate in this work?
What does the work reveal about the author’s feelings, opinions, or psychology?
What does the work reveal about the society in which it was written?
What can we learn from this work about the issues or topics it deals with?
What motivates the characters in the work to behave as they do?
How are literary devices used in the work?
How does the work create emotional or intellectual experiences for its readers?
Is this work good or bad?
Is this work good or bad for its readers?
Some of these questions require information from outside the text itself; for example, to argue that a work reveals a writer’s psychological condition, it would be helpful to have some other evidence of that condition to corroborate your interpretation of the work of literature. Some of these questions ask about the world outside the work—about the author, his/her society, or our own society, for example—while others try to focus more on the features of the work itself.
Analyses which try to make statements about the work itself
is often called
formalist
criticism: it attends more to the structures and strategies employed in the work. Ultimately, such arguments generally do try to move beyond the work, to claim, for instance, that it is likely to create certain effects in its readers, or that readers will understand the writer’s intent more clearly if they pay attention to its formal characteristic.
In LIT 100, we are going to be paying attention primarily to these formal features of literary works. In fiction, some of these features include tone, point of view, setting, character, etc. We will be paying less attention to extra-textual features, such as the author’s biography or the historical contexts in which the literature was produced and/or read; these elements are not less important than formal features, but they naturally vary greatly from one work to another and often require in-depth study to truly appreciate. To understand how Shakespeare’s social situation in London in the 1590s might have been reflected in his plays would require a whole course in Elizabethan history. On the other hand, the formal features we will be studying in this course can be found in literature of all eras and genres, though they may often be used to different effect by different writers at different times. Almost all fict.
This document is a syllabus for an intermediate fiction writing course. It outlines the course objectives, which are to help students improve their understanding and use of fiction techniques, provide insightful feedback on peer's work, and write three original stories using different points of view. It details the required readings, which include several short story collections and fiction podcasts. Students will be evaluated based on three short stories they write in different points of view, several writing exercises, and written feedback provided on peer's stories. The class will initially meet synchronously via Zoom and include discussions of readings, writing assignments, and peer workshops.
This document outlines a unit plan for teaching literary elements in short stories to 6th grade students. Over two weeks, students will read and discuss a minimum of six short stories in literature circles. They will learn skills for annotating texts, identifying elements like plot, conflict, theme and point of view. Students will keep a journal and use their entries to draft a literary essay analyzing elements across multiple stories. The unit provides guidance on forming literature circles, selecting stories, reading strategies, leading discussions and providing peer feedback.
This document provides guidance on essay structure and the different components of an essay. It discusses the key parts of an essay including the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. The introduction should begin broadly and introduce the topic before narrowing to the specific contention. Each body paragraph should make one point supported by evidence from the text using the TEEEL method of a topic sentence, evidence, explanation, and linking sentence. The conclusion should summarize the argument and restate the contention on a broader level without introducing new points. Proper planning and outlining of ideas is emphasized to write a coherent, well-structured essay.
This document provides information on different types of essays, including their definitions, parts, and guidelines for writing them. It discusses descriptive, narrative, expository, argumentative, and persuasive essays. For each type, it outlines their key elements and provides tips for how to structure the introduction, body, and conclusion. The overall document serves as a teaching tool for understanding various essay formats and how to effectively construct essays.
This document provides guidance for oral presentations on chapters from a novel in a Chicano literature class. It outlines that each group will have 3 presenters who will discuss: I) a summary of events; II) interpretive aspects like plot, character, theme and point of view; and III) stylistic features used by the author. It provides details on the types of information that should be presented for each chapter's plot points, characters, theme, and other literary devices. The document aims to ensure all students are prepared to participate in discussions on each chapter.
This document provides instructions on how to write a critical essay. It outlines that the writer should carefully read and underline the key parts of the essay question. They should then create topic sentences to answer the question in stages. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence, evidence from the text, an explanation of the evidence, and commentary on author techniques. The introduction should introduce the author, title, summary, and mention techniques relevant to the question. The conclusion should restate how the essay answered the question and summarize the topic sentences.
The document defines theme as the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work. A theme can be stated or implied, and differs from the subject or topic by making a statement or expressing an opinion about the topic. Major themes are ideas an author returns to repeatedly, while minor themes appear only periodically. Authors express themes through the feelings of characters, thoughts and conversations, what characters learn, and specific actions or events.
The document provides guidance on analyzing an unseen poem in three paragraphs or less. It includes:
1) An 11-step process for close reading the poem, identifying themes, viewpoint, and analyzing language and structure.
2) A reminder to address the essay questions, use evidence from the poem, and explain how language and structure reveal the poet's feelings and themes.
3) An "Unseen Poem Essay Plan" outline and a table of "Poetry Features and Explanations" with examples of how different poetic techniques could reveal themes.
The document provides guidance for revising short stories for an exam. It discusses the format of exam questions, which may focus on themes, characters, symbols or other elements. It recommends revising each story's plot, characters, literary devices, structure, and form. Specific revision techniques are outlined, like writing notes and condensing them into summaries. The document emphasizes analyzing stories' language, structure, and form in exam answers and linking these to themes and the question. It provides examples of how to address these assessment objectives at different grade levels to achieve high marks.
The document provides tips for writing a strong conclusion paragraph. It advises to brainstorm by asking "So what?" and "Why are these ideas important?" It also recommends returning to the introduction's theme to give closure. Introductions move from general to specific while conclusions move from specific back to general. The conclusion should leave the reader with a final impression through a strong statement, tribute, quote, question, or answer. An example conclusion paragraph is provided that restates the essay's lessons and leaves the reader thinking about the relevance.
The document provides an overview of creative nonfiction, including:
- Defining creative nonfiction and distinguishing it from regular nonfiction.
- Discussing elements of creative nonfiction like fact, research, personal experience, and narrative structure.
- Identifying common literary devices used in creative nonfiction like characterization, setting, plot, and imagery.
- Explaining the 5 R's of creative nonfiction - realness, reflection, research, reading and writing.
- Outlining different types of creative nonfiction like memoirs, profiles, and travel writing.
This document discusses the four main types of paragraphs: descriptive, persuasive, expository, and narrative. It provides examples and definitions for each type. Descriptive paragraphs use details and sensory language to describe people, places, things, or events. Narrative paragraphs tell a story through a sequence of events with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Persuasive paragraphs aim to convince the reader of a position using facts and rhetorical devices. Expository paragraphs provide information to explain or analyze a topic using details, evidence, and examples. Each paragraph type has distinct features and purposes.
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This document provides guidance and questions for completing a Major Works Data Sheet (MWDS) analyzing a short story. It instructs the student to choose one short story from two options and then provides sections and questions to answer about the chosen story, including its title, author, genre, plot summary, characters, setting, themes, and analysis of the author's style.
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The document provides an overview of an environmental management course. It discusses nine course topics related to human interactions with the environment, including rocks and minerals exploitation, energy/agriculture/water management, oceans/fisheries, natural hazards, atmosphere, population, and ecosystems. Assessment methods are not described in detail. The course aims to provide local and global perspectives on sustainability, human needs/values, and the future of the environment.
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(𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝟏𝟎𝟎) (𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏)-𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐬
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐏𝐏 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬:
- Understand the goals and objectives of the Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan (EPP) curriculum, recognizing its importance in fostering practical life skills and values among students. Students will also be able to identify the key components and subjects covered, such as agriculture, home economics, industrial arts, and information and communication technology.
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-Define entrepreneurship, distinguishing it from general business activities by emphasizing its focus on innovation, risk-taking, and value creation. Students will describe the characteristics and traits of successful entrepreneurs, including their roles and responsibilities, and discuss the broader economic and social impacts of entrepreneurial activities on both local and global scales.
2. QUICK GLANCE AT THE SYLLABUS OUTLINE
PAPER 2—WRITING
• TIME: 2 hrs MARK: 50%
• The paper contains 2 sections: Section A & Section B. There are 3 questions in each section
• Candidates answer 2 questions: 1 question from Section A and 1 question from Section B
• Questions carry equal marks
SECTION A: IMAGINATIVE WRITING (narrative/descriptive)
• Candidates choose one out of 3 questions
• Questions require a narrative or descriptive piece of continuous writing of 600-900 words
• Candidates are required to show that they can write imaginatively, using language to create
deliberate effects, e.g. in conveying a mood or describing a character
SECTION B: WRITING FOR AN AUDIENCE (discursive/argumentative)
• Candidates choose one out of 3 questions
• Questions require a piece of continuous writing of 600-900 words.
• In each question a specified form for the writing will be given (e.g. a magazine feature,
article, review, letter to a newspaper, scripted speech, voiceover) for a specified audience
HERE, CANDIDATES ARE REQUIRED TO:
• To show that they can present a view clearly, construct an argument carefully, an write
coherently and persuasively
3. SECTION A: IMAGINATIVE WRITING
TYPES OF QUESTIONS:
You may be asked to write:
1. Two contrasting pieces based on a ‘before’ and ‘after’
scenario. For example:
Write two contrasting descriptive pieces (300-450 words
each) about a location immediately before the arrival
of a storm and some days after it has passed. In your
writing, create a sense of setting and atmosphere.
Another example:
Write two contrasting descriptive pieces (300-450 words
each) about two different times of the day and their
effect on a particular place. In describing each time,
you should create clear contrasts in mood and place.
4. TYPES OF QUESTIONS cont...
2. Write a complete composition about one particular
topic, perhaps focusing on specific qualities such as
sounds, colours and textures, or to explore a particular
experience or process. For example:
Write a descriptive piece called The Shower, in which the
narrator describes in detail her or his experience of
being caught in falling rain. In your writing, focus on
colours and sounds to help your reader imagine the
scene.
Another example:
Write a descriptive piece called The Shopping Centre. In
your writing created a detailed sense of people and
setting.
5. TYPES OF QUESTIONS cont...
3. The third type of question may have a more narrative element
to them and ask you to compose the opening to a novel, a
story or short story for example. The focus in this kind of title
is on creating a sense of possibilities for future development
at the end of the piece: for example the gradual revelation of
a character’s motivation; the way in which the narrative may
go as it ends on a cliffhanger; or the way the mystery or
suspense of the characters and setting may contribute to
future events. For example:
Write the opening chapter of a novel entitled The Private
Detective. In your writing, create a sense of mood and place.
Another example:
Write the opening to a story called The Cheat. In your writing,
create a sense of character and motivation.
Another example:
Write the opening to a short story called When the Evening
Comes. In your writing, create a sense of mood and place.
6. TYPES OF QUESTIONS cont...
4. You may be asked to write a complete story.
For example:
Write a short story called The Unexpected
Guest. In your writing create a mood of
tension and suspense.
Another example:
Write a short story called Arriving for the First
Time. In your writing, convey thoughts and
feelings of a narrator moving to a new and
previously unseen location.
7. TYPES OF QUESTIONS cont...
5. This type of question may ask you to begin
your composition with words given in the task.
These types of question usually stress that you
do not have to bring the writing to a close or
offer a final ending. For example:
‘The open road stretched ahead of them. There
was only one way they could go.’ Continue the
opening to this story (although you do not have
to write a complete story). In your writing,
create a sense of a mysterious future.
8. TYPES OF QUESTIONS cont...
6. Some titles may require you to end your
composition with words given in the task. For
example:
Write a short story which ends with these words:
‘...gradually the light grew clearer: it was real.’
9. RECAP
What were the 6 types of imaginative writing tasks just discussed?
1. Two contrasting pieces
What is the focus here mainly?
• Clear contrasts add a sense of setting and atmosphere
• in mood/atmosphere and place
2. Complete composition (Descriptive)
What is the focus here mainly?
• Focus on specific qualities such as sounds, colours textures, and/or...
• To explore a particular experience or process
3. More narrative pieces that may ask you to compose the opening to a novel, story or short story.
What is the focus here mainly?
• Creating a sense of possibilities for future development at the end of the piece
4. Complete story (Narrative)
What is the focus here mainly?
• Creating a mood of tension and suspense
• Convey thoughts and feelings of the narrator/character
5. Begin your composition with words given in the task
What is the focus here mainly?
• Ensure you begin with the words given in the task!
• Usually stress that you do not have to bring the writing to a close or offer a final ending
• Creating a sense of mystery
6. End your composition with words given in the task
What is the focus here mainly?
• Ensuring you END with the words given in the task!
10. IMPORTANT!
Although each type of question focuses on slightly different things,
it is important that you are able to:
• Incorporate effective descriptive detail
• Showing, not telling
• Use of ZOOM IN detail
• Use of the senses
• Develop a sense of atmosphere/mood
• Develop a sense of place/setting
• Develop characters (if applicable)
• Have a strong sense of voice
• Use varied vocabulary (effective Figures & Parts of Speech),
punctuation and sentence structures
• Your writing is well sequenced
• KNOW THE MARK SCHEME!