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GWAR Style

GWAR Style. Need to be 2-3 pages long Must be divided in part A and Part B Part A: Summary of quote Part B: The Essay. Practice. Basic practice for GWAR:

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GWAR Style

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  1. GWAR Style • Need to be 2-3 pages long • Must be divided in part A and Part B • Part A: Summary of quote • Part B: The Essay

  2. Practice Basic practice for GWAR: • Go to a "Quote of the Day" website, and write an essay or paragraph based on what you believe the quote means or if you agree or disagree. Include examples. • Set a timer in your house to help your brain get used to generating timed essays.

  3. Timed Essays • When a timed test begins, avoid the temptation to start filling the page immediately. Take a few minutes to plan. • Remember, your grader will read your essay, not weigh it. Go for organized substance, not sheer volume.

  4. Timed Essays • For a timed essay, your grader won't expect perfection.  It's okay if it looks somewhat like a rough draft -- that's a sign of a mind at work. • However, you need to still have clarity of thought and coherence within the essay. You must take care to avoid too many grammar and spelling errors. Make sure that you revise carefully.

  5. Timed Essays • Invest in a Good Thesis Statement • Take care with your thesis statement. Remember that it is the easiest part of a paper to change. • Your opinion plus topic plus because equals thesis. • Must be last sentence of the first paragraph.

  6. Timed Essays • Why do men think they have the right to make all the laws and keep all the money, when women stay in the kitchen?  Everyone should be judged by what they contribute to society. Women can be just as strong and capable as men are. •   Traditional womanly jobs appear inferior to manly ones.  Now that there are male nurses and female fighter pilots, we may have to rethink some points, but the overall argument is still valid. Women may appear weak because they lack men's rights.

  7. Timed Essays • The passage on the right still includes the student's personal opinions, but it offers specific comments on complex issues, not broad statements and sweeping generalizations.   • Do men really make all the laws and keep all the money? Are women really only in the kitchen?

  8. Timed Essays • Points from prior slide • Thesis • Tone • Grammar errors?

  9. HT Generate Examples • Your life • Your experiences • Information from classes • Pay attention to current events. • When in complete doubt, think about friends, family, work, and relationships.

  10. Timed Essays -- Top 5 Tips • Plan your time wisely. • Answer the right question. • Collect your thoughts. • Leave time to revise. • Revise your thesis statement if you need to

  11. “Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we would never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as frequently as the right ones. We get along in life this way.” • Take a position for or against the author’s main point. Then develop a clearly reasoned, coherent essay defending your position on this issue. Support your ideas with details.

  12. Timed Essays Plan your time wisely. • Make time for prewriting. • Drafting should take the majority of your time. • Also, leave time to revise; don't worry about it too much as you write your paper. If you have to, highlight it or underline it as a reference of where to go back to.

  13. Timed Essays Answer the right question. • Pay attention to the prompt. • Make sure that you aren't going off on a tangent.

  14. Timed Essays • Collect your thoughts. • Resist the urge to start churning out words immediately. If you are going to get anywhere in an essay, you need to know where you are going. • Do not forget to do prewriting.

  15. Timed Essays • Leave time to revise. Revise your thesis statement if you need to

  16. Other points • Don't bury your best points under an avalanche of fluff. • Make sure that you have an example per paragraph. • Have a title, intro, body paragraphs, conclusion • Thesis statement needs to be last sentence of first paragraph

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