The purpose of the prewriting assignment is to analyze the student sample essay and see if the student had followed the guidelines needed to complete the essay correctly. First, we read “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and read the analysis for it written by Dean Rider. Followed along by some PowerPoints one about thesis statements and another one on how to include quotes in a literary essay. There’s also videos included on formatting and MLA citation guide to make sure we understand on how to properly form and cite our essays. Once we’ve gone through all that, we look at the student’s sample essay and check if they followed all the guidelines we’ve learned and if they did what they were asked for the assignment. The whole point of this prewriting assignment is to teach us how to write better essays by understanding these key elements.
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Brianaliz, you’ve put this clearly and succinctly. If students examine the work of another student, maybe they can use the same techniques to evaluate their own work.
You did a great job summarizing the prewriting assignment and its purpose. Your explanation clearly outlines the steps, from reading the story and analysis to reviewing the PowerPoints and videos on thesis statements, quotations, formatting, and MLA citations. Evaluating the student sample essay using these guidelines is a useful way to apply what we’ve learned. This assignment should help us strengthen our writing skills because of the key elements of structure, analysis, and quality citation. I think this makes it easier to understand and apply the key concepts in our own writing.
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Your understanding of the assignment is excellent though. If students can evaluate the work of others based on directions, maybe they will be able to do the same with their own work.