Goals:
You will be able to identify or familiarize yourselves with features of a 5-paragraph essay: Introduction, Body and Conclusion
Tasks:
1. Warm-up: Before discussing features and structure of 5- paragraph essays, I would first like you to reflect on your diagnostic writing experience. Get into groups of 3 to 4 and answer these questions:
1) How did you structure your information in your diagnostic exam?
2) On what logical basis did you put that information onto that part?
(e.g., why did you mainly put evidence, or supporting details, in the Body, not conclusion?)
You will be able to identify or familiarize yourselves with features of a 5-paragraph essay: Introduction, Body and Conclusion
Tasks:
1. Warm-up: Before discussing features and structure of 5- paragraph essays, I would first like you to reflect on your diagnostic writing experience. Get into groups of 3 to 4 and answer these questions:
1) How did you structure your information in your diagnostic exam?
2) On what logical basis did you put that information onto that part?
(e.g., why did you mainly put evidence, or supporting details, in the Body, not conclusion?)
Compare the result of your group discussion with what I have in this handout.
2. Ordering activity:
First, put these paragraphs into the right order and see if you can tell which of the three parts of the essay each paragraph belongs to and why.
3. Further discussion:
See the Intro, conclusion and body paragraphs PPT.
3. Further discussion:
See the Intro, conclusion and body paragraphs PPT.
(a) Introduction
After viewing slide 2, see slide 3 and answer these 3 questions.
Is this a hook/ background information or thesis statement?
Is there any feature in slide 2 that’s missing in this example?
Make a suggestion for improvement.
(b) Conclusion
After viewing slide 4, read a student sample on slide 5 and answer these 3 questions.
1. What is done well in this conclusion?
2. What could be done better?
3. Make a suggestion for improvement.
(c) Body paragraph
See slide 6 to 8 for organizational features of body paragraphs. More tips and techniques to write an effective paragraph will be discussed on day 6.
For next class, we will find out ways to effectively form an outline that will help you to put the right kind of information to the right structure from the beginning, which saves your time for major last-minute revision!
Homework: Review the introduction and conclusion parts of your diagnostic essay based on what you learned in today's lesson and make necessary changes. This is due before class on Monday, Sept 10. Name this file "diagnostic_introduction and conclusion" and put it in the Dropbox folder you shared with me. If you have not yet shared one with me, invite me to your folder with the email address "jinkim7@illinois.edu".
After viewing slide 2, see slide 3 and answer these 3 questions.
Is this a hook/ background information or thesis statement?
Is there any feature in slide 2 that’s missing in this example?
Make a suggestion for improvement.
(b) Conclusion
After viewing slide 4, read a student sample on slide 5 and answer these 3 questions.
1. What is done well in this conclusion?
2. What could be done better?
3. Make a suggestion for improvement.
(c) Body paragraph
See slide 6 to 8 for organizational features of body paragraphs. More tips and techniques to write an effective paragraph will be discussed on day 6.
For next class, we will find out ways to effectively form an outline that will help you to put the right kind of information to the right structure from the beginning, which saves your time for major last-minute revision!
Homework: Review the introduction and conclusion parts of your diagnostic essay based on what you learned in today's lesson and make necessary changes. This is due before class on Monday, Sept 10. Name this file "diagnostic_introduction and conclusion" and put it in the Dropbox folder you shared with me. If you have not yet shared one with me, invite me to your folder with the email address "jinkim7@illinois.edu".
