Mode of Discourse: Expository
Literary Form: Non-fiction prose
Literary Form: Non-fiction prose
Deliverable
Please compose a process-analysis essay. You should choose to explain the process of completing a task about which you are well informed. The introduction should include any background/ foundational knowledge the reader may need to understand the purpose of the process. Throughout the essay, the writer should provide details that help the reader understand the process; in addition, pointing out potential pitfalls and giving examples from personal experience can add interest.
Length: 1000 words + or - 10% Format: MLA Point of view: 1st person (informative), 2nd person (directive), or 3rd person (informative) Details:
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Optional ChallengeTry your hand at satire or comedy.
Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles. A writer in a satire uses fictional characters, which stand for real people, to expose and condemn their corruption. Definition from https://literarydevices.net/satire/ |
Steps
1. Get Organized: Brainstorm & Full Sentence Outline
2. Rough Draft 3. Peer Edit Workshop 4. Self Edit: "Cut the Fat" 5. Student-Teacher Edit 6. Writing Specialist (Optional) 7. Polished Draft |
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Student Examples
Highlighted Objectives
Process-Analysis Essay
LAFS.910.W.1.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Writing Process
LAFS.910.W.2.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
LAFS.910.W.2.5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
LAFS.910.W.2.6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Final Product
LAFS.910.L.1.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
LAFS.910.L.1.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
LAFS.910.L.2.3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
Write and edit work so that it conforms to the guidelines in a style manual (e.g., MLA Handbook, Turabian’s Manual for Writers) appropriate for the discipline and writing type.
LAFS.910.W.1.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
- Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
- Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic.
- Use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and concepts.
- Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
- Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
Writing Process
LAFS.910.W.2.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
LAFS.910.W.2.5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
LAFS.910.W.2.6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Final Product
LAFS.910.L.1.1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- Use parallel structure.
LAFS.910.L.1.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- Use a semicolon, with or without a conjunctive adverb, to link two or more closely related independent clauses.
- Use a colon to introduce a list or quotation.
LAFS.910.L.2.3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or listening.
Write and edit work so that it conforms to the guidelines in a style manual (e.g., MLA Handbook, Turabian’s Manual for Writers) appropriate for the discipline and writing type.