ESSAY- ILLUSTRATION
An author who writesillustrative essays exemplifies a central idea throughexamples.Good examples are used to further clarify and understand the author's message while helping to build a connection with readers. In formulating illustrative essays, a writer either focuses on one specific example or uses several examples in explaining the central idea.
Genre/Medium: Illustration/Typed essay
Purpose: The writer of an illustration essayuses examples to reveal the essential characteristics of a topic and/or to reinforce a thesis. For this assignment you will write an illustrationessay that follows the five-paragraph essay format on one of the essay topics listed below.
Format: Your five-paragraph essay must contain a concrete closed (parallel, three-point) thesis statement at the end of the first paragraph and follow the MLA guidelines.
Audience: This essay will target a scholarly audience. Therefore, your language and style should meet the intellectual needs of individuals who read on a collegiate level. Are you writing to an audience that consists of classmates and the professor who have experienced similar obstacles in life towards becoming literate scholars? As you think about your audience, write to pique the interest of your audience by considering what your readers already know and what they need to know.
Stance: What attitude will you convey through illustration? Will you portray yourself as serious, intellectual, passionate, desensitized, or sarcastic? Think about your stance and convey your stance throughout your essay.
Instructions: Write a five-paragraph illustrationessay on one of the topics below.
(A). In the essay "Why We Are Looking at the ‘Value' of College All Wrong," Christopher Nelson defines the educated graduate as an independent learner who seeks "out answers to whatever questions arises" while applying the lessons he/she learns in college to tackle life's challenges.
Write an essay explaining ways you, as a college student, are evolving into an "independent learner." Provide evidence from Nelson's essay to support your assertions.
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