The objective of the prewriting assignment is to help us gain a comprehensive understanding of writing an essay, and how it should be formatted and executed. This week we start off by reading “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Additionally, we also read secondary sources such as the overview of “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Dean Rader, and past essays based on the story. In doing so we gained a stronger understanding of what primary and secondary sources are, and how our work should be articulated. PowerPoints also helped aid us by clarifying important components in a structured essay, such as explaining what a strong thesis is and providing key examples of good and bad illustrations. As well as how to successfully insert quotes. We also view a short video on the importance of formatting. Furthermore, we are also able to view a sample essay with highlighted notes on format, font, paragraph structure, and MLA citations. The examples and sources covered in this pre-writing assessment are a very helpful tool. One that I will utilize constantly as it provides a structured guideline to follow when writing and covers all the bases in a successful essay.
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Vivian, this is very comprehensive response to the prompt. I just want to note for you, as I have to others, that the student sample essay is not necessarily a good model essay. This is what you are going to be asked to evaluate this week.
Hello, Professor Conway. Thank you for the feedback, I’ll be sure to keep an eye out when evaluating this week’s work.
Vivian, thank you for posting this. It gives me a better idea of what Professor Conway is looking for as a response. I agree that these steps make a guideline of what is expected of us in our writing assignments going forward.