Styling up Your Essay's Opening and Closing: September 11, 2018

Focus: How do we open and close our essays in a compelling way?

1. Warming up with a goal and a little image-inspired creative writing

2. Writing what you really want to get across in your intro and/or conclusion

Introductions:

• Establish who/what/when/where/why?
• Define important terms you'll be using.
• Funnel down into your thesis, which should be the last sentence.

Conclusions:

• Wrap up your argument without restating it word for word.
• Establish why your hysteria is important in a larger context. How does it connect to other hysterias? To who we are as a country? To what we fear and what we do to feel safe?
• Offer solutions or ideas about why there's a lack of resolution.

3. Reviewing lead-outs on your own; click HERE for the slides.

4. Self-assessing areas of strength and need with the official rubric (if you have time)

HW:
1. COMPLETE ROUGH DRAFT DUE BEFORE CLASS TOMORROW (30-point Attempt and Completion grade); tomorrow will be our final day of in-class work time on this essay.

2. The due date for the final draft of this essay is Tuesday, September 18. Remember to submit it to www.turnitin.com by 4:00 pm.

2. Wanna buy Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? There's still time! We start this Thursday.