Have you ever heard of a synthesis essay? If you haven’t I would love to tell you what it is. A synthesis essay is an essay that takes a unique viewpoint on a topic or theme. It is also backed up by many sources.
For this section of our course Ms. Maxwell assigned our driving question to be « How do authors use text to teach us more about ourselves? » ( ( We had also created trailers to books we had read in class with this in our minds, if you would like to watch my trailer for More Happy Than Not, its right here! ) Our task was to then figure out our own versions of that question, and create a plan for writing the essay in class later in the week. For my essay my thesis was:
The essay had to have shape and so we had to follow a example we had been given.
This is the example.
The introductory paragraph has a hook and your thesis. This was really important, the stating of the thesis, this makes it so that the reader can comprehend what your about to write about, and what you believe in. The next 3 paragraphs are unique in knowledge but they repeat in the outline.
Ms. Maxwell prepared a few questions for us to answer in our blog posts, so I would like to try and shed some light on those. The first question I will be addressing is:
I believe that the most important step to preparing for an in class essay would have to be the outline that I stated above. The outline really helps put all of your thoughts together, and it helps you to see if your missing anything to complete your thoughts. It also helps you to see what and essay consists of, so when reading others essays you can see things like the 2nd paragraphs topic sentence, or the supporting points, and you can fully understand what’s going on.
The second question that I will be answering is:
I personally found my book to be a little over the top, and the story moved to slowly at first and then it moved to fast. It almost felt like I was getting a headache every time I read. It continued to move around and I felt myself losing a grasp. I also felt the character was a little to fast to jump to conclusions which made me really frustrated for some reason. For the reasons stated above, I felt that my book hindered my writing of the essay, because I could only truly remember the parts that got on my nerves and I could not get over those parts.
I found it hard to show the point of my essay through this book since I did not connect to the character, the setting, the storyline, I was not interested in the cover art or the aesthetics of the book. I also found relating the plot back to my life was tricky and so I could not fully feel for the character.
The last question I will be answering is:
I personally believe that this essay and the preparation behind it will help in the future because I sort of want to become a journalist, and creating these preparation essays really will come into play if you continue into a writing career, like an author or a screenwriter. I believe the importance of writing essays and the planning behind them is because by doing this it is helping us as students to have every option possible when we have to chose in the future.
If you would like to read my essay, it is here.
In the future, and for the upcoming essays I think I will be focusing on making sure that all my points tie together well and create something that makes sense!
Thank you for reading and hope you have a great rest of your day
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