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ENGL062N Introduction to Reading and Writing

Week 6 Discussion

Thesis Statements, Support, and Details

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

Textbook: Chapters 7 & 8

Lesson 1

Textbook: The 4 essays on pages OP5T6_1 - OP5T6_15 (To locate this section, open your full table of contents and click on part 5, "Thematic Anthology of Readings." The portion you need to read is the final theme, "The Rules of Attraction," which contains four separate essays on the theme of "The Rules of Attraction.")

Initial Post Instructions

This week, your assigned textbook chapters include a rich discussion of introductory paragraphs, conclusion paragraphs, and supporting detail. In your textbook, you will find many sample annotated introductions and conclusions throughout the chapter readings. In addition, the lesson guides you carefully through the processes of reading introductions and conclusions and writing them.

This discussion activity will help you recognize introduction and conclusion techniques in your reading and will allow you to practice identifying points and supporting detail.

The initial post for this discussion has two parts:

Part 1: Reading & Responding

In your textbook, at the end of Section 5, you will find a series of 4 essays on the theme, "The Rules of Attraction." Choose one, and engage closely with the text, using the reading strategies we have studied, such as annotating, underlining, and "talking to the text."

After you have done this, read the essay again, this time highlighting all key introduction parts, body points, supporting details, and conclusion parts.

Based on what you have learned by reading the textbook and the lessons this week, answer the following:

Which attention-grabbing technique does the author use at the start of the introduction? Is it effective? Why or why not?

List three of the details used throughout the essay (these do not need to come from the same point).

Does the author provide engaging details that clarify the point? Explain.

As a reader, do you crave more?

What other details may be helpful?

What "look to the bigger picture" does the author provide in the conclusion? Is it effective? Explain.

What is the foremost lesson you learned about introductions, conclusions, and organization of main points in your own writing from this reading exercise? How will you employ it?

Part 2: Writing

Using your Week 4 Assignment (your template for your initial outline of your essay), address the following:

List 2 attention-grabbers you may use at the start of your introduction paragraph and explain why.

List the main point for each of your 3 body paragraphs. (3 main points, one for each body paragraph)

For each of those points, provide 2 specific supporting details. Can you be more specific? How?

Offer 2 ideas for your "look to the bigger picture" element for the end of your conclusion paragraph. Which do you like better? Explain.

Follow-Up Post Instructions

Respond to at one peer. Further the dialogue by providing more information and clarification in the form of the following:

If you read the same essay as your classmate, did you have similar or different responses related to the introduction, supporting details, and conclusion? How, and why do you think that might be? If you read a different essay, how would you compare your analysis of its introduction, supporting details, and conclusion to your classmate's analysis of his or her chosen essay?Please offer specific feedback to your classmate regarding their topics, attention-grabbers, points, supporting details, and "bigger picture" conclusion elements. Put on your "reader's hat." Do you have ideas for other possible attention-grabbers? Points? Details? "Bigger picture" approaches?