The document provides an agenda for an upcoming class that includes: 1) Reviewing student essay drafts and having individual meetings to discuss questions. 2) An in-class writing assignment on the concept essay. 3) Two example student essays are included that discuss different conclusion strategies for the concept essay that students could consider for their own writing.

2. AGENDA
• Essay Review
• Conclusions
• Individual student meetings in-
class; please have your draft and
your questions ready.
• In-Class Writing: The Concept
Essay

3. ESSAY REVIEW
 An attempt to gain readers’ interest could take as little as two
or three sentences or as many as four or five paragraphs.
 The thesis statement and definition are usually quite brief—
sometimes only a few sentences.
 A topic illustration may occupy one or several
paragraphs, and there can be few or many topics, depending
on how the information has been divided up.
 A conclusion might summarize the information
presented, give advice about how to use or apply the
information, or speculate about the future of the concept.

4. SHOULD I END WITH SPECULATION, AS NGO DOES?
Members of developed societies in general practice
none of these forms of cannibalism, with the
occasional exception of survival cannibalism when
the only alternative is starvation. It is
possible, however, that our distant-past ancestors
were cannibals who through the eons turned away
from the practice. We are, after all, descended from
the same ancestors as the Miyanmin, the
Alligator, and the Leopard people, and survival
cannibalism shows that people are capable of
eating human flesh when they have no other
choice.

5. SHOULD I FRAME THE ESSAY BY RELATING THE ENDING TO THE BEGINNING, AS
TOUFEXIS DOES?
O.K., let’s cut out all this nonsense about romantic love. Let’s bring some
scientific precision to the party. Let’s put love under a microscope.
When rigorous people with Ph.D.s after their names do that, what they
see is not some silly, senseless thing. No, their probe reveals that love
rests firmly on the foundations of evolution, biology and chemistry. What
seems on the surface to be irrational, intoxicated behavior is in fact part of
nature’s master strategy—a vital force that has helped humans
survive, thrive and multiply through thousands of years. Says Michael
Mills, a psychology professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los
Angeles: “Love is our ancestors whispering in our ears.”
O.K., that’s the scientific point of view. Satisfied? Probably not. To most
people—with or without Ph.D.s—love will always be more than the sum of its
natural parts. It’s a commingling of body and soul, reality and
imagination, poetry and phenylethylamine. In our deepest hearts, most of us
harbor the hope that love will never fully yield up its secrets, that it will
always elude our grasp.

6. TWO CHOICES: WORK OR TALK TO
ME

7. HOMEWORK
Write: Work on your concept essay
Post # 32: Your improved draft
Bring two clean, double-spaced
copies of your draft to class
Study: Vocab (all)