Writing and Five-paragraph Essay
902 Project: Five-Paragraph Essay Project: Thesis, Supporting Points, Outline
To do well on a project you should be prepared to spend time over several days to do your best work. You should plan to apply yourself to your project, take a break from it, and come back several times to polish and refine your work. Your goal for this project is to complete some exercises about a prompt for a five-paragraph essay. The essay will be due in a later unit. As you work on the exercises, understand that your essay can be persuasive (supporting a position or belief) or expository (informing about a topic) and will be about 600-800 words long (about 2-3 pages). Choose the prompt carefully.
Prompts for a Five-Paragraph Essay
Look at the writing prompts provided below. Are there any that interest you or cause you to think? Choose one, and on a piece of paper jot down all the ideas that come to mind when you think about that topic. Do not edit your thoughts as they come to you—just write them down.
Five-paragraph Essay Prompts
What is the importance of voting? or Why should all citizens vote?
What is an important trait to have? Help your readers to understand why they should strive for this trait.
Positive effects of video games or Negative effects of video games
Explain the benefits of an activity that the reader should try (consider one of your favorite activities).
The ills of cell phone use or Why cell phones are a useful technology
The best place to grow up is in the city or The best place to grow up is in a rural area
What is the best season of the year? Try to convince your reader.
Organizing thoughts:
After you have chosen a prompt and jotted down some ideas about that prompt you can start to organize these ideas. If you are having second thoughts about this prompt, now would be the time to change prompts and try again. To help you
To do well on a project you should be prepared to spend time over several days to do your best work. You should plan to apply yourself to your project, take a break from it, and come back several times to polish and refine your work. Your goal for this project is to complete some exercises about a prompt for a five-paragraph essay. The essay will be due in a later unit. As you work on the exercises, understand that your essay can be persuasive (supporting a position or belief) or expository (informing about a topic) and will be about 600-800 words long (about 2-3 pages). Choose the prompt carefully.
Prompts for a Five-Paragraph Essay
Look at the writing prompts provided below. Are there any that interest you or cause you to think? Choose one, and on a piece of paper jot down all the ideas that come to mind when you think about that topic. Do not edit your thoughts as they come to you—just write them down.
Five-paragraph Essay Prompts
What is the importance of voting? or Why should all citizens vote?
What is an important trait to have? Help your readers to understand why they should strive for this trait.
Positive effects of video games or Negative effects of video games
Explain the benefits of an activity that the reader should try (consider one of your favorite activities).
The ills of cell phone use or Why cell phones are a useful technology
The best place to grow up is in the city or The best place to grow up is in a rural area
What is the best season of the year? Try to convince your reader.
Organizing thoughts:
After you have chosen a prompt and jotted down some ideas about that prompt you can start to organize these ideas. If you are having second thoughts about this prompt, now would be the time to change prompts and try again. To help you