Essay Due Date: Beginning of Class, Wednesday, May 11, 2005. This essay will not be accepted late.

Value: 50 Points Workshop Days: Fridays and Mondays until due date.

Directions:

FIRST, review text advice The Essay and the Thesis Statement, pp.349-366 and Prewriting for and Drafting Your Essay, pp. 373-386

NEXT, complete the following assignment:

Assignment: Using the “Milkshake Essay” (handout) or “Helpful Technology,” (p. 351-352) examples as a pattern, plan, draft, and edit a five-paragraph essay. Choose ONE of the following:

ü Writing Practice #3 Write and Essay, pp. 370-372

ü Writing Practice #1 Write About a Personal Relationship, pp. 386-7

ü Writing Practice #2 Writing About a Personal Goal, pp. 387-8

ü Writing Practice #2 Write About a Favorite Activity, pp. 402-404

FINALLY, please read carefully and apply all suggestions in the chapter Revising and Editing Your Essay, pp. 392-401 before submitting the final copy to me.

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I will evaluate your essay in three areas:

Organization: A clear, unified thesis sentence at the end of the first paragraph and coherently structured sentences in the body paragraphs.

Development: An adequate number of specific details in each of your body paragraphs

Mechanics: A final copy free of fragments, comma spices, run-ons, words-commonly-confused errors, and spelling errors.