Answer the all of the following questions in 1-2 paragraphs. A paragraph is 4-6 coherent sentences.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Week 5.2
Explain to me what the informative essay assignment entails. What do you have to do? What is the purpose? How does it relate to the other essays? What key elements will I be looking for in an informative essay? Will you choose a similar topic for all three essays? Why or why not? Again, it is up to you whether you want to do that. How many sources do you need? What kinds of sources do you need? Why have a variety of sources?
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The purpose of this essay is to inform the readers about a topic you have researched. The informative essay needs to include an intro, three prargraphs of support, and a conclusion. Key elements are narrow topic, good title, keep readers interested, define key terms, remain objective, provide accurate information, document sources and conclude strong. If you use the same topic for all three essay it will make it easier, because you will have the research done, and have a background knowledge. You need at least three sources and one has to be a book. You need a variety of sources to compare and make sure its accurate and at least one book because its been revised and is accurate.
ReplyDeleteAn informative essay includes details that describe a certain topic. You need to support your topic and make sure it catches the readers attention with a good hook. In the informative essay, you must use 3 different sources and one must be a book source. By using, different sources it assures that you can write a paper with a lot of good information without running out of things to say.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if I will be using the same topic for all essays because I still don't have no clue what I am going to write about.
THe purpose of the informative essay is to tell the reader about a certain topic. This essay may be boring, but it needs to attract the reader with a good hook and the rest is support about your topic. The minimum amount of sources we have to have are three and one of those sources must be a book. It is important to use different sources to get more information and some types of sources are more accurate than others. I'm not sure what I'm writing my next three papers about but I will probably have the same topic for all three. It will save me time, plus I will already know about the topic then and have a good background about it when it comes to the last paper.
ReplyDeleteThe informative essay includes details about the chosen topic. There needs to be support of your topic and make sure that it is intresting enough to keep the reader hooked. For the informative essay you have to have 3 sources and one of the sources must be from a book. When you use different sources it assures that you won't run out of things to talk about.
ReplyDeleteI will probably use the same topic for all my essays because it will make it easier
For the informative essay you have to find a topic to write about, but it is all about information on the topic. You don’t include any personal beliefs or stories; it is just to tell about the topic, all information. The purpose is so that students can be able to research a certain topic. This essay relates the other essays because I will be using the same topic. Also both the analysis and argumentative essays will need information which is very similar to the informative essays. The key elements are our ability to find information and include it in the essay. I will choose a similar topic for all three essays because it will be easier to write my essays and I won’t have to find new information. For this essay you need three sources and one must be a book, magazine or newspaper. You need a variety of sources because a book gives out better information which is more likely to be true.
ReplyDeleteInformative essays includes details that inform readers on a subject. You have to make sure that the start of the paper is strong so readers will want to read on. The essay tends to be dry because its all about facts on a subject.You have to introduce the reader then rope them in. Then you have 3 supporting paragraphs and a conclusion talking about future and significance. Also you want to have an narrow topic, define key terms and provide accurable information. I am going to use the same topic for all three papers. You must have three sources at least one book. The other two will be internet sources. Its a good to have lots of sources so you can compare readings and pull from all three.
ReplyDeleteAn informative essay entails, gathering information from different sources, interpreting and explaining that information and then, exploring new questions or concepts on the subject. The purpose of this essay is to report accurate, up-to-date information, objectively, while bringing up an interesting new question or thought about the subject. The key elements you are looking for in this essay are, a focused sub-topic of a larger topic that, remains objective,provides accurate, documented and current information,(with key terms defined), and includes a fast start with a conclusion.
ReplyDeleteMy goal is to choose one topic for all three essays because I will gain an in depth knowledge of the subject that interests me. It will also have the added benefit of eliminating the extra work of researching separate topics for each of the next three essays. There should be at least three sources used, including one from a book. By my using a variety of sources to document facts and cite credit worthy passages, a reader should have confidence in the credibility of my essay.
The informative essay entitles us to inform the reader on a particular subject. It relates to the other essays because it is the information for part of the analysis and a side for the argument paper. In the informative essay the key points needed are a narrow topic, good title, keeps reader interested, defines key terms, remains objective, produces accurate information and documents sources. Depending on how well I am working with the topic I originally choose will depend on if I reuse the same topic for all three essays. It would be for research purposes to use the same topic. We need at least three sources one which is a book.
ReplyDeleteAn informative essay tells the reader of a topic. You need to find information, interorit the information, explain the information and explore questions and problems. This essay should be a stepping stone to the rest of the essays this semester. With this essay, you do not want to pick a side. You want to remain objective throughout the entire paper. You also want to keep readers interested because it is such a dry paper. My goal for this paper is to do the same topic for each paper so that I learn more about my paper and so my argumentative essay will be easier to write.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of an informative essay is to explain a topic to someone in an interesting manner without being too opinionative about the topic itself. This essay relates to other essays because, even though it shouldn’t be biased, it still can set up for an argument in a different essay. Key elements in this essay are a narrow topic, a start fast, keeping the readers interested, definition of any key terms, remaining objective, providing accurate information, documenting sources, and having a strong conclusion. I believe that I will choose a similar topic for all three essays because it will make them a little simpler to write in the end. This essay requires three sources, one needing to be a book. It is important to have a variety of sources so that you can be sure you’re using accurate sources--books often times might be more accurate than an internet source.
ReplyDeleteThe informative essay is designed to inform the reader about a subject, with as little opinion as possible. It can relate to the other essays we will be writing in this class, but does not have to be. I personally intend to write all of the essays on similar subjects, because my intended topic, alternative forms of education, is something I care about and I feel that there is enough to write about. The assignment requires the use of three sources, at least one of which must be a book, or other printed media. This variety of sources will make for a broader source of information that may be more reliable.
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ReplyDeleteThe purpose of an informative essay is to fully understand and explore a topic. It is detailed and descriptive and involves a variety of sources. At least 3 sources should be used, one needing to be a book. For my informative essays I plan on using different topics, because that way I can fully describe each topic better.
The informative essay entails that we pick a subject and research the subject then write about what we find during are research. This is like the reflective essay since this is meant to test and approve our writing. You will be making sure that we have a narrow topic, remain objective and not tell what we fill, that we have a strong ending and beginning, and define things that someone would not know unless they studied the subject. I will attempt to use the same subject throughout the essay that we will be assigned. We need to have at least three sources for this essay although it would be better to use more, out of the sources we use we need at least one of those sources needs to be a book. It is good to use different sources on papers so you can make sure the accuracy of the information you have obtained is good.
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The informative essay includes details that describe a certain topic. The writer needs to support your topic and make sure it catches the readers attention with a good hook and a good thesis. In the informative essay you must use 3 different sources and one must be a book source. By using different sources it allows you write a paper with a lot of good information. I still do not know if I am going to use the same topic for all of my papers though
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of the informative essay is to inform your readers about a topic you have researched and share facts. Informative essays may be boring to read or write but you should make it interesting by having a good hook. The rest of the essay should be support and information about your topic. Yes, I will choose a similar topic for my next three essays so that by the time we write the argumentative essay I will already have a part of it done. For this essay we need to have three sources, one has to be a book. We use different sources so we know we are getting accurate information and some sources might be more accurate than others.
ReplyDeleteThe informative essay is the first of three essays that all relate to each other. The informative essay is where we are supposed to choose a topic that we can research and inform the reader about. The key elements that you will be looking for are narrow topic, fast start, keeping the reader interested, define terms, remain objective, provide accurate information, document sources and have a good conclusion. This essay relates to the rest of the three because in the other two you are analyzing the topic from two sides and in the argumentative essay you are arguing what you believe is right. In the informative essay you must have three sources one of which must be a book. We need to have a variety of sources because we need to make sure that all of our information is correct. I will be using the same topic for all three essays because it will save time and I already will know a lot about the subject so I should know what I am talking about.
ReplyDeleteThe informative essay, unlike our other essays, asks the author to write about a topic using facts and concepts, rather than opinions and interpretations. Its purpose is to inform the reader, not convince them. Key elements that will make the essay complete include; an introduction, hook, three different areas of support, definition of key terms, the future and significance of the topic, and a strong conclusion. It is important that an essay have various resources so the reader doesn’t feel that the paper is biased and to verify that the information presented is accurate and to date. Therefore, three resources, at least one from a book, are needed. Although I haven’t chosen my topic yet, I think I’m going to use one topic for all three assignments, so that I can save time and learn more about my particular topic.
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