Monday, November 12, 2018

Post 8: Writing a 5-paragraph essay

Dear All,

Can you share with your peers and me your experience in writing a 5-paragraph essay?

What I'd like to learn from you is what you found not difficult today and what you found not very easy or difficult to do

Here is the list of points to consider:

1. Writing the introductory paragraph
2. Writing the body paragraphs
a) formulating the thesis statement
b) formulating the topic sentences
c) organising the paragraphs logically
d) finding convincing supporting evidence
e) finding appropriate supporting evidence
3. List techniques you use to support your arguments
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
4. Essay opening techniques
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
5. Essasy closing techniques
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
6. How confident you are in doing the following:

a) quoting
b) summarising smth. to include in your essay
c) paraphrasing
7. Any theory you feel necessary to discuss?
a)
b)
c) 
d)
e)

Here is the scale to use:
Need to revise/learn
-Strongly disagree
-Disagree
-Neither agree nor disagree
-Agree
-Strongly agree

9 comments:

  1. List techniques I use to support my arguments:
    1)examples;
    2)my own experience;
    3)experience of other people;
    4)Mass Media.
    Essay opening techniques:
    1)a quotation;
    2)a story;
    3)scientific or other facts.
    Essay closing techniques:
    1)a quotation;
    2) a summarizing sentence;
    3) a proverb.
    How confident I am in doing the following:
    a) quoting -Neither agree nor disagree
    b) summarising smth. to include in your essay -Disagree
    c) paraphrasing -Neither agree nor disagree
    Any theory I feel necessary to discuss:
    a)revise how to make an introduction;
    b) the structure of the whole essay;
    c)how to make a thesis statement.

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  2. Petukhova Anastasia and Ushkova Alexandra
    1. Writing the introductory paragraph - disagree
    2. Writing the body paragraphs
    a) formulating the thesis statement - strongly agree
    b) formulating the topic sentences - agree
    c) organising the paragraphs logically - disagree
    d) finding convincing supporting evidence - neither agree nor disagree
    e) finding appropriate supporting evidence - neither agree nor disagree
    3. List techniques you use to support your arguments
    a)Giving examples
    b)Telling life-stories
    c)Making a comparison
    d)
    e)
    4. Essay opening techniques
    a)Questions
    b)Thesis
    c)Quotation
    d)Telling a story
    e)
    5. Essasy closing techniques
    a)Summarising
    b)Quotation
    c)Paraphrasing
    d)
    e)
    6. How confident you are in doing the following:
    a) quoting - disagree
    b) summarising smth. to include in your essay - disagree
    c) paraphrasing - disagree


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  3. 1. Writing the introductory paragraph - agree
    2. Writing the body paragraphs - agree
    a) formulating the thesis statement
    b) formulating the topic sentences
    c) organising the paragraphs logically
    d) finding convincing supporting evidence
    e) finding appropriate supporting evidence
    3. List techniques you use to support your arguments
    a) using statistics
    b) using personal experience
    c) examples from life
    4. Essay opening techniques
    a) quotation
    b) question
    c) a life story
    5. Essasy closing techniques
    a) quotation
    b) question
    c) a life story
    6. How confident you are in doing the following:
    a) quoting - confident
    b) summarising smth. to include in your essay - not really
    c) paraphrasing - ok
    7. Everything possibly to refresh my memory

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  4. List techniques to support arguments
    a)personal experience
    b)news
    c)statistics
    d)books and movies
    e)quotation

    Essay opening techniques
    a)question
    b)quotation
    c)anecdote
    d)small to large
    e)large to small

    Essay closing techniques
    a)quotation
    b)question
    c)summary close
    d)now or never close
    e)assumption close

    6. How confident I am in doing the following:
    a) quoting - disagree
    b) summarising smth. to include in your essay - disagree
    c) paraphrasing - disagree

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  5. 1.2.As for me, the first two are quite clear except points " 2d) finding convincing supporting evidence and 2e)finding appropriate supporting evidence.
    3.The techniques I use to support my arguments are to use my own experience or experience of other people, to find the same situation in a book or in a film, use some statistics.
    4.The opening techniques I use are quoting, posing a question, to state a problem or to list problems related to the matter of discussion.
    5.The closing techniques I use are to go back to the statement in the opening paragraph, but to paraphrase it, also to use some quotations, to summarize arguments.
    6. a) -Neither agree nor disagree
    b) -Neither agree nor disagree
    c) -Neither agree nor disagree
    7. The whole structure of the essay, because in the previous year we wrote only 3-paragraphs essay, how to make a thesis statement

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  6. a) formulating the thesis statement -agree
    b) formulating the topic sentences -agree
    c) organising the paragraphs logically -disagree
    d) finding convincing supporting evidence-disagree
    e) finding appropriate supporting evidence-disagree

    We can support our arguments by providing examples from our experience(or the experience of someone we know)or by referring to studies.

    I only remember that we can open and close an essay by using quotes.

    I feel confident in quoting, but not in summarizing and paraphrasing.

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  7. I feel pretty confident in writing the introductory paragraph and formulating the topic and the thesis statementes. Although, I`m bad at finding convincing and appropriate supporting evidences.
    3. List techniques you use to support your arguments:
    a)Personal experiance.
    b)Facts from different articles, news, books.
    4. Essay opening techniques:
    a)Quoting.
    b)Statistics.
    c)Introducing the situation nowadays.
    5. Essasy closing techniques:
    a)Summarizing the whole essay.
    b)Quoting.
    c)To appeal people to change the situasion.
    d)Give some advice.
    6. How confident you are in doing the following:
    a)Quoting - Disagree.
    b)Summarising smth. to include in your essay - Disagree.
    c)Paraphrasing - Agree.
    7. Any theory you feel necessary to discuss?
    a)Organising the paragraphs logically.
    b)Finding convincing supporting evidence.



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  8. Rimma and I decided to discuss techniques that we use to write an essay.

    3. List techniques we use to support our arguments
    a)sharing a personal experience
    b)a story
    c) giving an example from a book or the internet
    d)giving a personal opinion
    e) making a consideration of an argument from different points of view
    4. Essay opening techniques
    a) a quote
    b)a topic sentence
    c) a thesis statement
    d)state and formulate a problem
    5. Essasy closing techniques
    a)summarise
    b)formulating a rhetorical question
    c)a quote
    d)conclusion
    e)your own opinion
    6. How confident we are in doing the following:
    a) quoting
    b) summarising smth. to include in your essay
    c) paraphrasing
    7. Any theory we feel necessary to discuss
    Rimma and I feel necessary to discuss a thesis statement and topic sentence.

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  9. 1,2. As for me, the most difficult part of a 5-paragraph essay is introduction. Sometimes it's extremely hard to lay the foundation for understanding the research problem, organize the information properly and formulate the thesis statement in such a way that a person will ask some specific questions. The easiest thing for me is to write the main body because this part gives room for creativity, is full of examples, personal opinion, etc.

    3. Techniques I use to support my arguments:
    a) Examples
    b) Expert opinion
    c) Personal experience
    d) Statistics

    4. Essay opening techniques:
    a) Open question
    b) Quoting
    c) Using comparison and contrast
    d) Story

    5. Essay closing techniques:
    a) Summarizing
    b) Paraphrasing
    c) Quotation

    6.
    a) Neither agree nor disagree
    b) Agree
    c) Agree

    7.
    a) The structure of an essay
    b) How to formulate the thesis statement

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