TOPIC 5: TACKLING ESSAYS

LEARN HOW TO
• Handle writing better
• Learn to compose paragraphs
• Cite and acknowledge sources
 WRITING PARAGRAPHS
• A paragraph is a group of sentences that is
self-contained and focuses on a particular
idea or point to develop the topic.
• Made up of topic sentence, supporting
sentences and concluding sentence
 ORDER OF IMPORTANCE
• Main thought or most important point usually
comes first
• Even at sentence level
• Page 66
 TACKLING ESSAY Q
• Read Q twice
• Interpret Q by underlining key words found
• Do you know the subject matter?
• Yes; start jotting down points
• No; do research
 CREATIVE WRITING
• No specific rules to follow
• Fiction, poetry, novels, short stories, plays
• Express yourself better
• Be more precise in words
• Be original
 BIBLIOGRAPHY
• A list of writings with time and place of
publication in preparing a document, etc
(Wordnet of Princeton Uni)
• Give credit to the source where ideas came
and sources/info used
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• APA (American Psychological Association)
 CITATION STYLE
• PAGE 70,71
 PLAGIARISM
• Serious crime
• Stealing someone’s ideas and claiming it’s
yours
• Definition; page 72
 DESCRIBING VISUAL DATA
• Google for “interpreting charts and graphs”
• Tables
• Line/bar/pie charts
• Pictographs
• Exercise 5.3
 TOPIC 6; PERSUASIVE WRITING
• Introduction
• Body- assertion
• Body- concession/rebuttal
• Body- proof
• conclusion
 REASONING PROCESS
• DEDUCTIVE REASONING
• INDUCTIVE REASONING
• PAGE 60 onwards
 TO PERSUADE READERS
a) Appeal to reason; conscious and deliberate
action, using logic to make others agree with
you
- Two sides of every issues
- Need to be clear of your stand
- Ask Qs (pg 81)
 APPEAL TO EMOTION
• By evoking their emotion via creating clear
image in their minds
• Careful to use
• Don’t manipulate emotional fears
 APPEAL TO GOOD PERSONALITY
• Based on several arguments and questions
• Page 82
• 6.1.3
 PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES
• Helps to analyse strategies and to choose the
most effective way to persuade readers
1. Emphasising readers’ benefits
2. Addressing readers’ concern
3. Showing sound reasoning
4. Presenting reliable evidence
 REASONING PROCESS
• READER MUST UNDERSTAND;
a. The writer’s claim
b. The evidence
c. The line of reasoning
 PATTERNS OF ORGANISATION
• DIRECT AND INDIRECT
a. Organising to create a positive response
b. Direct pattern of organisation
c. Indirect pattern of organisation