English 1022E Lecture : 7. Nov 1 --Essay writing 2.docx

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Choose a topic that interests you or maybe confuses you. A topic that stimulates your imagination and makes you want to talk about it (imagery, character, development, formal devices. Interest must be infections you want to talk about it. Read the topic carefully to understand what it is asking you to do/not do within a given word/page limit (do not go over 1000 words she will stop reading) Personalize the generic topic (snow imagery, the moral fall of a character, the use of repetition, what formal devices you will focus on) narrow everything: don"t show the topic, show your thesis. Choose a text you understand or one toward which you have negative reactions (puzzling, angering ) Underline/take notes in margins or on cards of every element that addresses your chosen topic. Roughly write down ideas as to how the text treats your personalized topics. Gets you focusing on a specific line of argumentation (character change: he matures)

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