Essay 4.1

Assignment:  Write an essay explaining your views on work.  REMINDER:  this is NOT a paper on your future career.

Purpose/Audience:  Senior Seminar Board

• You will NOT read this essay to them.
• Information presented in your essay will be the topics for speech.

Choices!

• Format:  APA? MLA?
• APA!
• Type:  Argumentative?  Informative?
• You choose!
• Tell us while annotating on your cover which type you primarily used.

Length:  500-750 Words

Sources: 

• 1+ Primary
• 2+ Secondary

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Mrs. Gillmore's Prewriting

• Claim:  Work fulfills the inner call to "help thy neighbor."
• My Sources:  
• "Teachers Spending out of Pocket for Supplies, Projects, and Field Trips"
• "Teaching Virtue"
• Lumpkin's "Teachers as Role Model..."
• OH, NO!
• No primary source!

Mrs. Gillmore's Drafting:  
View Essay Here!

• Step 1:  Identify claim and complete outline.
• Step 2:  Write four signal phrases and evidence sentences
• = the A's and B's from the outline
• Step 2:  Write commentary.
• = 1's and 2's from the outline
• Step 3:  Write introduction and conclusion.
• Step 4:  Format essay.

Mrs. Gillmore's Editing and Revising

Mrs. Gillmore's Publishing