ENG 1100 Lecture 8: English 1100 Lecture V Structure
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** key point: an effective essay will be one that has been consciously organized. Its final structure will emerge only over the course of several drafts but it helps to begin with a some kind of frame or map, that is, an outline. Two things to cover today: the six-step process to get your first draft organized, some useful tips on creating powerful beginnings, middles, and endings to your essays. Step i: gather together what you have so far. From all the writing you have done so far (free-writing, brainstorming, notes from reading), make a master list of all the ideas and details you want to include. Distinguish between general and specific material and see the relation between them. For example: (here you need to pretend that you are nicholas carr himself, drafting his essay) Hawthorne and the train (h. "s bio, vol 1).