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1. WEEK7

   Towards ESSAY#2 & Review of How to Build an Expository/Argumentative Essay
2. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW) Essay#2 will ask you to build (the parts of) an essay based on your definition of a key term/phrase.
3. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW) Definitions will most often be a part of larger essays: defining key terms that help explicate general ideas. Dictionary Definitions  avoid, provide your own definitions based on analyses of other’s definitions (which could include a dictionary definition) or on your learned interpretation of a topic.  give multiple definitions (which can include the dictionary def.) to distinguish from your own
4. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW) Definitions will most often be a part of larger essays: defining key terms that help explicate general ideas. (b) Comparison-contrast show what X is and contrast it with what X is not what definitions are partly or fully true what definitions are designed to confuse, mislead, or contort
5. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW) Definitions will most often be a part of larger essays: defining key terms that help explicate general ideas. (c) Description in order to explain what X is, describe a situation/example/instance of X in great detail later, you can provide more specific examples, but not focus on them so in depth
6. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW) Definitions will most often be a part of larger essays: defining key terms that help explicate general ideas. (d) Exemplification give specific illustrations of X; multiple examples— and an explanation of the exact instances of X in each example and how they generally relate—will of course make it easier for you reader to grasp your specific definition
7. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW) Definitions will most often be a part of larger essays: defining key terms that help explicate general ideas. (e) Negation take time to explain what is non-X, what comes close to being X but is not for example gentrification does not equal the housing crisis, but gentrification is an example of and an important part of the NYC’s ongoing and centuries-long housing crisis, specifically a part of the 1980s housing crisis (with its specific context) for example, against the Real Estate Board of NY, gentrification is not immigration; Chinese moving into Flushing does not necessarily imply gentrification—to see if it does or does not we must first look at the economics of the housing frontier; are those Chinese the gentry working with real estate and city to first disinvest an area deemed “wild” and then rebuilt for a higher tax-base?
8. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW) Now, let’s review the steps required in building an essay from the ground up: brainstorming purpose subject defined-subject thesis outline paragraphs
9. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW): SUBJECT
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13. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW): SUBJECT Parks Gentrification
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17. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW): THESIS
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20. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW): THESIS TOPIC: gentrification in Harlem  Thesis? 2. TOPIC: history of Harlem  Thesis?
21. BUILDING AN ESSAY (REVIEW): THESISParagraphs Argumentation In your introduction, help the readers see that there is a problem, issue or need that has prompted your argument. Make sure that you support your claims with plenty of evidence that you analyze fully. Anticipate your opponents’ objects and counter them. Clarify your view as you provide reasons and analysis. Offer a concession to your opponent that doesn’t undermine your argument and then use it as a way to strength your position. Use sound reasoning and avoid logical fallacies.
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