Analytical Reading Friendship Illustration Essay
Friendship Illust ration Essay
Goal To write a 5 paragraph essay illustrating the importance of an essential issue in friendship. Using scenarios as your specifics, demonstrate that a single specific issue is essential to understanding friendship. Write to demonstrate that everyone will agree that if they want to understand friendship, they have to deal with your issue. 2 Formats 3 Short Scenari os: Each of your body ¶s should begin with a topic sentence, a clarifier, and then an explanation of a scenario that illustrates the crucial issue of friendship you are examining. Following the scenario, each three specifics will illustrate your thesis. Variations on One Long Scenari o: Your introductory ¶ will be followed by a long (perhaps even multi-paragraph) scenario that illustrates a crucial issue in friendship. Following that, each body ¶ will begin with a topic sentence that makes a point about the issue, and use at least three details or variations from the scenario to illustrate your thesis.
Thesis The main idea of your essay will be that if a person wants to understand friendship they must consider the issue you are examining. Examples: Although everyone thinks of trust, honesty, and respect when they think of friendship, the most significant issue in a friendship is mutual benefit. The essential difference between friendship and other close personal relationships is freedom. The most honest kinds of friendship are among twelve-year-old boys. Anyone who seriously wants to understand friendship should spend some time with boys. Looking at the possibility of friendships between people of different age groups illustrates the most significant issues of friendship.
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Process: 1. Considering all the issues, opinions, and scenarios we have discussed, select a topic that you think is fresh, rich, and deep. Make sure you think you can create scenarios and variations around it.
ex. Friends back each other up.
2. Make a broad generalization about it.
ex. In times of conflict true friends will back each other up no matter what.
3. Plan three scenarios that challenge this generalization. Either create one basic situation with three significant variations or create three separate scenarios that relate to the same topic. Make sure each scenario has these elements: A crisis that requires change Two reasonable but conflicting sides A point of decision
ex. 1. Doug and Don go to parties and get in fights. Doug is tired of it. He says he won’t back Don up anymore. Don picks a fight anyway. Does Doug stand and watch? 2. Shelly gets caught cheating and uses Betty as an alibi. Betty wasn’t cheating, doesn’t think they can get away with it. Does she back Shelly’s story even though it might get her into trouble? 3. Phil wants to play his banjo in the talent show asks Kathy to sing with him. She thinks they’ll get laughed off the stage. It’s really important to Phil to show the school what he’s good at.
4. Draft a possible thesis.
ex. Although everyone thinks you should always back up a friend, a true friend will consider the long term consequences and the best interest of the friend before backing them up in a stupid decision.
5. Create a visual organizer that matches the best structure for your essay. Use the visual organize handout to create the right outline on 11” x 14” paper. 6. Write your scenarios or scenario and variations. 7. Fill in the specifics and extenders for each body ¶. 8. Draft body ¶ 1. 9. Draft body ¶ 2. 10. Draft body ¶ 3. 11. Use organizers to construct and draft intro and conclusion ¶s. 12. Combine intro, conclusion and 3 body ¶s into a complete essay. F RIENDSHI P I LL US TRA TION E SS AY D UE : F RIENDSHI P I LL US TRA TION R EW RITE D UE :
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