Compare/Contrast Essay Editorial Questionnaire

Are you a freshman composition student who has been assigned to write a compare/contrast essay? Do you not have the time or money to spend having an OTA tutor you this time around? This five-item, two-page questionnaire will allow you to become a better self-editor of your own compare/contrast essay. You can also use it as a peer-editing tool and trade essays with your classmates and take turns reading and commenting on one another's essays.

Brushing up on fundamentals/The writing process

Using the four steps in the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, and editing), write a 2-3 page essay on one of the topics below: 1. Teaching styles for motivating adult learners. The following has to be submitted with the essay. Planning material--Your pre-writing or planning material can consist of notes, journal entries, freewriting, brainstorming, etc. It should demonstrate your idea-generation and decision-making regarding topic, purpose, audience, and content. Rough draft--This should be a fully-developed draft of your essay including a title, introduction with thesis statement, body, and conclusion. Final draft--This draft should demonstrate your application ... click for more

Essay Writing Basics

This is the topic, " Discuss the concept of Success" The first two essays are to be written in two different rhetorical modes regarding the subject matter you selected. Remember to choose only one topic from below and explore it in two different ways by using two different modes. For essay #1, use one of the following rhetorical modes: Narration, Description, Classification, or Defining. For essay #2, use one of the following rhetorical modes: Process Analysis, Cause and Effect, Illustration, or Argument. In the third essay, you will analyze your writing in the first two essays and explain how each met the requirements of the particular rhetorical mode that you selected. For e... click for more

This posting examines how writing a research paper (essay with sources) is different from the other writings.

This posting examines how writing a research paper (essay with sources) differs and correlates from other genres of writing.

Literary and Poetic Terminology Handout

Taking a literature course and trying to write a literary analysis? Is your understanding of the literary terminology that has been discussed in class less than complete? Then this ten-page handout is an ideal reference. The terms are arranged in alphabetical order and several examples from a wide variety of literary works (both American and British) are given to demonstrate each concept. See the following sample entry from the handout: Allusion A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics or some other branch of culture. An example is Sandra Cisneros' "Straw into Gold," which is an allusion to the folktale about Rumpelstiltskin. ... click for more