Essay writing training session

1. Secondary School
Metodi Mitevski – Brico, Delchevo
Essay Writing Course
Career Centre Office at Secondary School Metodi Mitevski – Brico,
Delchevo
Counselor/Mentor Teacher of ESL, Zheleanka Demirova

2. Secondary School Metodi Mitevski – Brico, Delchevo
Welcome to session 5
Career Centre Office at Secondary School Metodi Mitevski – Brico,
Delchevo
Sorting facts
Ways to organize facts
31/03/2016

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1.Try to find logical connection
between two words, or even
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2. Explain the logical connection in a note/sentence
form. Here is your point. Go as further as you feel it is
sufficient.

5. ORGANIZATION STARTS WITH
NARROWING A TOPIC AND DECIDING
ON A PURPOSE
SORTING FACTS

6. Narrowing the topic-organize
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Pay special attention to balance of points in for & against essays.

7. The Abominable Snowman
By deciding on a purpose
you have organized your
facts even more. By deciding
to convince your readers
that the Abominable
Snowman is a myth, you
automatically rule out
describing the Himalayan
mountains where the
Abominable is said to leave.

8. ELIMINATE UNRELATED FACT NOTES
During your research you probably collected
some facts that you do not need. Although
you might be tempted to use all facts that you
have, you should remove those that do not fit
your topic..

9. Look at the five fact notes that follow. One of them is
not related to the others.
-Animals in the four major U.S. buffalo helrds-
50,000.000-1865
-Native Americans-vanished from Great Plains-
1850s
-Expanding railroads caused buffalo hunting-
1867
-Experts guess approximately 6,500,000 buffalo
killed in Great Plains-1871-1874
-By 1880 buffalo hard to find

10. Exercise: In each of the following group of words, four are closely related in some way.
Write the word that is not related. Be prepared to explain what connection exists
among the four remaining words.
1 lion elephant tiger lynx cheetah
2 hour minute day half century
3 Earth Mars sun Saturn Jupiter
4 herd flock mob tribe individual
5 continent gulf bay river lake
6 teach demonstrate explain show ignore
7 box rope twine thread string
8 dress coat shirt skirt ring
9 flute clock piano clarinet trumpet

12. Ways to organize facts
CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER = Arrange facts or details in the order in which they took
place (new stories and histories
ORDER OF IMPORTANCE = Arrange facts either from least important to most
important or vice versa. (small to large, usual to unusual
good to best, bad to worst, and similar)
STEPS IN A PROCESS = When you give directions or tell how an experiment is
done, you arrange your facts according to the steps in
the process. You keep the steps in exactly the right order
- one after the other.

13. Kinds of supporting facts
(Plan example: paragraph outline about dolls)
MAIN IDEA Dolls have not always been toys.
FACT NOTES
1. Witch doctors used ‘magic’ dolls for bringing rain, winning wars
2. Egyptian paddle dolls buried with important people to be friends in
spirit world; decorated with paint and beads
3. Dolls as saints in church plays
4. Before fashion magazines, sent from France all over the world
The order in this plan is chronological. Order of importance also could
have been used.

14. Ways to develop paragraphs
FACTS Can be checked or proved
SENSE DETAILS Details discovered with your senses (see, hear,
smell, taste and feel)
EXAMPLES Another kind of facts
REASONS Why sth happened or why sth it is the way it is.
ANECDOTES Little stories (usually about people)

15. Practice……
Alaska lynx

16. End of session 5
Thank you!!!