Exemplification Essay
Outline
Purpose: to inform
Audience: professor, students, general public
Tone: serious and straightforward
Thesis: Children today are not encouraged to use their imaginations.
Method of development: Exemplification
Organizational approach: Emphatic order
I. School testing doesn’t encourage original thinking.
A. Tests are objective and standardized
B. More focused on perfect grades than actually learning
C. Creativity declines as they learn rational right and wrong answers
II. Kids are “overbooked” and too busy to play
A. Some schools don’t provide recess to students
B. More extracurricular activities
C. Academic pressures from schools
III. School systems not organized to encourage individual flourishing
A. Standardized testing doesn’t adapt to children’s creative needs
B. Music and creative academia not recognized
C. Competitiveness among students; making a mistake is punished
IV. Conclusion
A. The education system today is more focused on making productive workers instead of creative thinkers. Kids are taught to be afraid of making mistakes, to stay uniformed, and to respect authority. There is a noticeable decrease in creativity across the nation.
B. Personal experience
Essay Standardized testing has gained more and more attention over the years for causing harm to the education system. Teachers are noticing a decrease in creative thinking in their students and parents are noticing a decline in their children’s creative expression. The pressure to be correct and not make mistakes is taking over many school systems and is creating a future of unimaginative thinkers. The reality today is that kids in schools today are not encouraged to use their creativity. There are many reasons behind this such as the standardized testing that has been introduced into the school system, students’ overbooked and busy schedules, and the simple fact that school systems today are not properly organized around individual flourishing. The No Child Left Behind Act of
Purpose: to inform
Audience: professor, students, general public
Tone: serious and straightforward
Thesis: Children today are not encouraged to use their imaginations.
Method of development: Exemplification
Organizational approach: Emphatic order
I. School testing doesn’t encourage original thinking.
A. Tests are objective and standardized
B. More focused on perfect grades than actually learning
C. Creativity declines as they learn rational right and wrong answers
II. Kids are “overbooked” and too busy to play
A. Some schools don’t provide recess to students
B. More extracurricular activities
C. Academic pressures from schools
III. School systems not organized to encourage individual flourishing
A. Standardized testing doesn’t adapt to children’s creative needs
B. Music and creative academia not recognized
C. Competitiveness among students; making a mistake is punished
IV. Conclusion
A. The education system today is more focused on making productive workers instead of creative thinkers. Kids are taught to be afraid of making mistakes, to stay uniformed, and to respect authority. There is a noticeable decrease in creativity across the nation.
B. Personal experience
Essay Standardized testing has gained more and more attention over the years for causing harm to the education system. Teachers are noticing a decrease in creative thinking in their students and parents are noticing a decline in their children’s creative expression. The pressure to be correct and not make mistakes is taking over many school systems and is creating a future of unimaginative thinkers. The reality today is that kids in schools today are not encouraged to use their creativity. There are many reasons behind this such as the standardized testing that has been introduced into the school system, students’ overbooked and busy schedules, and the simple fact that school systems today are not properly organized around individual flourishing. The No Child Left Behind Act of