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Writing In-class Essays

Writing In-class Essays. Write quickly and competently to show the instructor what you know!. In-Class Essays Actually Show Your Instructor if You. U nderstand the literature Can convey your knowledge Can organize your ideas and your time.

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Writing In-class Essays

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  1. Writing In-class Essays Write quickly and competently to show the instructor what you know!

  2. In-Class Essays Actually Show Your Instructor if You • Understand the literature • Can convey your knowledge • Can organize your ideas and your time

  3. Consider the “Rhetorical” Situation: • Purpose:To show that you understand what you have read and can analyze and apply information in an essay • Audience: Your instructor, who will evaluate using certain criteria • Genre: In an English class, this is usually a literary analysis • Stance: Remain formal, detached, and critical

  4. Pay Attention to Key Words in the Question! • Analyze: Break an idea into parts and examine each part • Apply: Consider how an idea or concept might work out in practice • Argue/Prove/Justify: Offer reasons, evidence, examples to support a position • Compare/Contrast: Explore similarities/differences

  5. Terms, continued: • Critique: Analyze and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses • Define: Explain what a term/word means • Describe: Write about important characteristics or features of something • Evaluate: Determine something’s significance or value • Explain: Provide reasons and examples to clarify an idea, argument, or event

  6. Terms, continued: • Summarize: Give the major points of a text or idea • Trace: Explain a sequence of ideas or order of events

  7. Before You Start Writing: • Scan the question(s) • Read over the entire test • Do not panic! • Plan: Allow yourself time for revising and editing. • Jot down your main ideas • Rephrase the question in your opening statement • Provide a concise thesis statement • Write on every other line to provide room for additions or changes and for ease of readability • Go over your answer to check for problems

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