Takeaways from today's class exemplification, citations, and transitions.
1. Your thesis should directly define your comprehension of the abstract noun. It should not be a dictionary definition.
2. Each body paragraph's topic sentence should connect the abstract noun (evil) to the specific example.
3. Incorporate evidence via paraphrases and direct quotes from multiple sources.
4. Citations, traditionally, feature the author and the page number (Gianini 5). However, if you do not have an author, you should commence with the title of the selection. If you do not have a page number, you just put the author or title.
5. To avoid the immature full sentence quotations, work on selecting key phrases to transition into your writing. Your essays will have better flow and focus more on your writing than other texts.
6. Create a final concluding thought to tie together the example.
Following our evil practice, you were assigned your new vocabulary word for Vocab Experts starting on Monday.
Then, the preview of the exemplification essay. For your essay, you will be selecting an abstract noun from the given list of 441 abstract nouns. (Remember, "chaos" is not allowed due to the student example for next week.) When you walk into class on Monday, you should have a list of 3-5 nouns ready to go. Each student will pick a different noun and then we will discuss research policies, source pages, and the Works Cited Page.
We only have 4 essays left to go in this class -- how time does fly!
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