My understanding of the purpose of the prewriting essay in Week 1 Activity 10, is that this essay is a warm-up compared for the final essay. It allows for the summarization of the final essay. Based on my understanding, the purpose of the pre-writing assignment is to provide a guide and layout of the literary essay. In order to complete this essay, one would have to write a thesis-driven essay discussing one of the ideas expressed in “Overview of ‘The Most Handsome Drowned Man’” by Dean Rader about the story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Just like any other essay, an introduction, body and conclusion will have to be created. Additionally, the essay has to be written in MLA format. The essay requires the following pages, in addition to the introduction conclusion and body, it requires the work cited page, a page for academic integrity and the citations for the stories.
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The prewriting assignment is a step-by-step guide to help students with the necessary skills and knowledge to write their first essay successfully. This process involves a thorough analysis of two assigned reading materials: “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a literary overview of “The Handsomest Drowned Man” by Dean Radar. Several PowerPoint presentations provide detailed instructions to guide them through creating a well-developed thesis statement, including a few examples of thesis statements and structure, how to correctly add quotations in the body of writing, a video of proper writing format, and how to correctly apply MLA citations. These resources are to ensure students, instilling in them the confidence that they have the essential tools to establish a solid foundation for their upcoming essays. Also, a detailed essay outline and a sample student essay are included as part of these resources to offer further guidance and reference.
This prewriting assignment has me exploring other students’ essays, and honestly, it’s been very interesting to see how easily many college students’ mistakes are found in their essays. By really analyzing their work – how they structured things, their thesis statements, and even their writing style – I’m starting to get an idea of ways to better improve my writing and what makes a good essay. It’s very helpful to see the videos that were given to us and the examples to better help us. Of course, I’m also going through all the activities and videos about MLA format. It seems like a lot now, but I know learning how to cite things properly and make my essays look right is going to be super important for college. All in all, this prep work is giving me the tools I need to write at a higher level, which is the goal!
My understanding of the pre-writing assignment is that we will be using all 3 resources provided to us, “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “The Overview of “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Dean Rader, and the sample student essay to formulate the foundation of what will ultimately guide us to write essays efficiently and as smoothly as possible. As long as all 3 resources and the supporting guide posted on week 1 are used it will allow me to formulate my thesis statement and compose a strong essay. As well as to properly write an essay, as stated in step 3 of the pre-writing assignment, by following activities 5, 6, 7, and 8 which include sources as how to follow proper MLA format and quoting primary/secondary sources correctly, The purpose of the pre-writing assignment is to break down the story by Gabriel Marquez and use the resources provided to us so we can layer the similarities within each theme of our primary and secondary sources to create our main idea.
My understanding of the prewriting assignment in Week 1 activity. 10 is that it showed me how to write a good literary essay. I was able to see the process of making that essay. I had to watch a video that taught me about the formation in essays, as well as an illustration of that formation. I also was able to see the MLA citation guide which showed examples of the citations for books, journals etc. There was two PowerPoints that taught us everything we need to know as well as gave examples about both thesis statements and inserting quotes. I also read the stories and saw a student sample essay as well as the directions to that essay. Lastly, the purpose of this pre writing activity is for all of us to have the knowledge of what to do and not to do, in order to successfully submit the literary essay.
My understanding of the prewriting assignment’s purpose is to help make our essays stronger. One way that is done is by reviewing a sample student’s essay on “The Most Handsome Drowned Man”. Doing this allows us to see what past students did on the assignment, which can paint a clearer outline of what is being looked for versus what is not, while showcasing others’ perspectives on the subject we’ll be writing about. Another way it would help make our essays stronger would be a refresher, or introduction, on the correct usage of different aspects of the essay such as formatting, whether it be paragraph structure or the usage of quotations (shown in their video and PowerPoint, respectively), and how to properly write a thesis and its purpose in the essay (shown in its own PowerPoint). Lastly, the overview helps develop a further understanding of the novel, while also strengthening our use of sample student’s essays by adding more information to work with.
From my understanding, this prewriting assignment is the foundation and brainstorming part of the essay which is a multiple layered process that will outline the finished work. This is to help students prepare and organize their thoughts for the first literary essay. By using the sources provided in the activities of Week 1, you will learn how to outline a literary essay, step by step, as well as how to add quotes from primary and secondary sources, how to use MLA style, etc. The purpose of understanding these can help you organize your thoughts for all upcoming essays. For this very essay, we are to use “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the primary source, and “Overview of ‘The Most Handsome Drowned Man’” by Dean Rader which is the secondary source to come up with our very own thesis to write an essay about. Although there is no writing as of now, we are expected to follow the steps in Part 1 of writing Essay 1 for better understanding of the essay structure before we actually begin to write.
My understanding of the prewriting assignment in Week 1 Activity 10 is to read and do the multi-layered process with Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s and ‘The Handsomest Drowned Man’ and Dean Rader’s scholarly article, we have examples of a primary source and a secondary source, respectively. I would achieve this assignment by reading the story that was given as well as the summary of the story. I reviewed the supporting guides Professor Conway gave us in Week 1 and used the PowerPoints on Thesis Statements and “How to Insert Quotations into a Literary Essay”. After that, watching videos on format Illustration/format matters, learned MLA citation guides, and read the instructions for the student sample essay as well as being absorbed in the student essay sample. The prewriting aims to help us write our essay for this assignment in the future so we don’t have our thoughts written everywhere. These observations will also helps us ensure that our own essay follows the proper formatting requirements.
The purpose of the prewriting assignment is to help us organize their thoughts and ideas before writing up a draft, it serves the same purpose of an essay outline. It is a way to encourage brainstorming and planning to clarify the direction and structure of the writing assignment. In this case it would be used to identify key points, gather information to smoothly approach the topic in the best way possible. Our focus is on primary and secondary sources and how we identify them to my understanding. By reading “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the overview on the passage by Dean Rader, we would fully evaluate the passage from our own perspectives. Using our resources provided to us on how to create a thesis statement, inserting quotes into a literary essay, format and MLA citation to avoid any mistakes and make the writing process easier.
