Assignment:
Essay: This first essay offers you an opportunity to practice the process of writing an essay step by step, from brainstorming through final revising.
The Assignment:
Write an organized, well developed essay that describes three characteristics that make you who you are. Need Assignment Help?
Brainstorming
The first step is generating ideas for your essay. As a prewriting activity, you will complete a "Where I'm From Poem" that will help you reflect on the meaningful people, places, and experiences that have shaped who you are.
Organizing
This essay includes three main parts:
- Introduction and Thesis Statement
- Three Body Paragraphs
- Conclusion
Each week, you will build one part of the essay.
A successful essay will include the following:
- Full MLA header on the left side of the first page
- Page header on the right side of each page
- 12-point Times New Roman font, double spaced
- Original title
- Introduction paragraph with a hook, narrowing section, and thesis statement
- Thesis statement that clearly identifies the three characteristics you will develop
- Three body paragraphs, one for each of the characteristics in your thesis
- A clear topic sentence for each body paragraph
- Description and details that develop each paragraph
- Conclusion paragraph that restates the idea of your thesis statement
- Correct sentence structure that avoids fragments, fused sentences, or comma splices