Description Essay

Today we received a paper for our first description essay. Webster's New World Dictionary 2003 describes description as the technique of describing. It also says it is a statement or passage that describes. Our MLA format includes looking like this:

Jessica Gerlemann

Leigh Kolb

Comp I

26 August 2009

TITLE

INTRODUCTION

BODY PARAGRAPH 1

BODY PARAGRAPH 2

BODY PARAGRAPH 3

CLINCHER/ZINGER: CONCLUSION :TIE OF UNITY

Sensory Language

Just as a quick overview. Sensory language is part of the best of all description language. Without it we learn that regular sentences and paragraphs are choppy and boring. Sensory language has to do with the most close senses we feel towards particular experiences we are having due to the five senses. According to Webster's New Dictionary 2003 hearing, taste or feeling, smell or even generalized sense of awareness. It especially describes it as perception through the senses.

8-19-09 Powerpoint Presentation Today

Class was nice today! I read Chapter 1 & 2 surprisingly for the next day. I think it's nice we can take notes. I think they will help me very much.

1.Prewrite
2.Identify the thesis
3.Support the thesis with evidence
4.Organize the evidence
5.Write the first draft
6.Revise the essay
7.Edit and proofread

3 point thesis statement
Introduction
Body Paragraph 1: pt 1 examples, evidence
Body Paragraph 2: pt 2 examples, evidence
Body Paragraph 3: pt 3 examples, evidence
Conclusion: adding unity

This is basically what I have learned from today's powerpoint and yesterdays reading:
*Prewriting can be thinking, jotting down ideas, basically anything is a start.
*Confidence with any of it will help.
*Understanding the assignment is important
*Audience and Purpose is important
*Brainstorm! Brainstorm!
*Gather and organize raw information:facts, anecdotes, quotes, statistics, articles
*Make sure thesis is a controlling narrowed point of view that is effective not broad and not announcing a statement
Recognize limited subject and attitude
Mini outlines are great!
Vivid language is best to make the essay like colors to your reader. Sensory details
Make defensible arguments
Be clear, concise, credible ,correct

The Writing Process

Stage 1: Prewrite
*Keep a journal
*Understand boudaries of assignment
*Determine your purpose audience and tone
*Discover the limited subject
*Generate raw material about your limited subject
*Organize the raw material

Stage 2: Identify the thesis
*Writing an effective thesis
*Avoiding thesis pitfalls-
Don't make announcements, Don't make broad statements
*Support the thesis with evidence
*Evidence being supporting paragraphs

Stage 3: Support the thesis with evidence
*Supporting paragraphs

Stage 4: Organize the evidence
*Thesis
*Introduction
*3 supporting paragraphs
*Conclusion
*Using transitions
*Use chronological, spatial area, emphatic approaches
*Prepare outlines
Stage 5: Write the first draft
*Connect ideas to thesis, introduction & conclusion
* Tie it all together with "unity"
Stage 6: Revise the essay
Peer review(wkshts)
Stage 7:Edit & proofread
* Correct grammer
* The four C's Concise, Credible, Clear, Correct

The Reading Process

Stage 1: Get an overview of the selection
*Use first reading checklist

Stage 2: Deepen your sense of the selection
*Try to grasp your understanding

Stage 3:Evaluate the Selection
*Preview Images
*Analyze and Interpret Images
*Integrate Image Evaluation