The thesis statement is crucial to your essay; please do not confuse a topic with a thesis. ... When you sit down to write your essay, try to imagine how your argument might best be broken into manageable "chunks." ... Then select from this list those passages which best back up your statements. ... Do the same in the case of poetry, but denote line breaks with spaced slashes. ... A really good conclusion will point the reader to other possibilities, raise questions that the essay's argument might lead toward, or perhaps offer an ironic turn on the conclusions offered in the paper. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She would take this stance because of the beliefs she expresses in her passage relating to the oppressive nature of imposing the English language on Chicano's. ... This component of the requirement presents the need for students to learn to write essays in a formal method with evidence supporting arguments. ... Furthermore the statement goes on to express the requirement for students to question the "conditioned nature- of their own beliefs about the world. ... She would find the requirement to be both objectionable and oppressive, because of her negative mind-set about being forced in...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Consider cars and how they have changed people's lives. ... Thus, the question becomes: How do we effectively use today's technology as a tool versus a device for distraction? ... In fact, the best questions lead to more questions. ... With ease, I can email or chat with someone on the other side of the planet. ... However, the most important thing of all is how we choose to use them with the technology of the Internet. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She is doing more than simply trying to keep the reader interested with a few colorful descriptions. ... The life of the author, the "grossly material things,"" have an effect on what the author writes and how. ... This question leads to one of the most significant passages concerning the novel in A Room of One's Own, where Woolf likens the novel to "a creation owning a certain looking-glass likeness to life-. ... When she says, "He [the writer] must not look or question what is being done. ... She connects this intimacy to the things of life with upholding the real. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is very important to decide how many and what sort of compositions we are going to assess. ... How we are going to give feed-back is important too. ... Reading We often do reading task in lockstep fashion: the whole class reading one text and answering questions on it. ... One way of assessing is by checking class understanding of four or five points from a given reading passage. ... Answering a few questions about a text does not give reliable information about overall understanding of it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ellison's essay is about his relationship to music, but it also tells the story of how he became a writer. ... Music is something people use to connect with their emotions and writing can be used for the same thing. ... I don't know how she does that. ... But when I do worksheets out of a book I can listen to music, unless it's like reading a passage then answering the questions. ... So I thought I would experiment and see if it works with any type of music. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hemingway knows how not only to make words be specific but how to arrange a collection of words which shall betray a great deal more then is to be found in the individual parts. ... Conrad Aiken does a fine job of explaining how Hemingway could make even the most complex issues seem somewhat simple. ... His disability keeps him from the love of his life, Lady Brett Ashley, because she does not want to be with someone whom she can not have sexual intercourse with. ... This of course was developed from a passage from Ecclesiastes which is put in the preface of the novel: "One generation paseth a...

• Word Count: 2253
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• Grade Level: High School