Joy Luck Club Essay

together we will work on how to produce your outline in a way that may not be as familiar as previous essay projects.
Most students have experience with a prompt being given to you, and then you take words from the prompt an then form that into a thesis which then dictates the contents of your body paragraphs.
Now we will take a different approach. On this essay over The Joy Luck Club, you will attempt to use your “notice and note” documents to see if an essay emerges as a cohesive analysis directly emanating from what you (CHOSE) to annotate. This method is more liberating in its direction, yet because it is new, can cause anxiety.
Consider. Everyone in the room annotated from their own conscious decision. Indeed this is like a Rorsarch test as you project your own interests into anything you read. What you annotated for is most likely what you found most compelling.
As you look at the notes you collected, try to imagine a question to which your evidence might support an answer. Put more practically, practice writing down a few prompts/ questions that when asked, might elicit the evidence you have. Once you decide on a prompt that fits, ANSWER that question to form your thesis.
To create a well developed thesis, you will need to make sure that it is a strong claim and is an opinion, position, point of view, or argument. As a class, we will look though a flow chart for creating a thesis. It is not a super clean process, but it should get you going. follow this link:
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It is important to remember that your thesis is not permanent at any point before turning in the final draft. As you begin writing, you may decide that what you wrote is too constricting, or perhaps not enough. I will work with you to figure out how best to resolve any issue.
Once the thesis is created, you will then fill out the claim sentences. These are also strong positions or opinions and they must directly support the thesis.
Each paragraph should have anywhere from 2-3 pieces of evidence to support the claims, These can be references or quotes. Quotes should be a mix of direct and flow quotes. No quote should span more than two full lines at 12pt. Times New Roman font. All quotes should be introduced and correctly punctuated.
There is no defined order of CER other than the claim being the first sentence. There should be no evidence introduced into the claim.
Students should limit themselves to between 3-5 body paragraphs, but longer essays will not be penalized by points.
Once the body paragraphs are completed, Students should then aske themselves if the topic they’ve chosen might cause the reader to know a little bit of background information to understand your point. Perhaps a psycho/social theory, an historical event, cultural concept, personal anecdote (if readers response) etc.. If that is so, this is where you would add this information as (Background info) in the introductory paragraph.
Your Introduction and conclusion paragraphs should not contain anything more than the outline describes. (Intro-hook if you have one- background info- thesis) Conclusion paragraph (Synthesis statement- Restated thesis)
It is a good idea at the end of this process to go through and make sure you have used appropriate transition language whenever needed.
If any outside sources are used, create a bibliography page. (We will go over this later.)
You will turn in your outlines here on this canvas assignment. (It is a good idea to have a peer give you feedback on your outline before proceeding)

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