Monday, January 13, 2014

Homework - 4 type of essay genres.

1. Persuasive Essay
- A persuasive essay is an essay that you present facts, informations, your own idea and opinion on a matter to persuade your audience that the way you take the matter is right.
- You can only TAKE on side because it could make your audience confuse if you support both side.
- Even if you take 1 side, still talks about the other side a little bit to not show out the bias personality of your essay.
- The format of the essay is:
        + Paragraph 1: Introduction on what you will be persuade your audience about and be sure to include your thesis statement that state your main idea and give out your direct opinion
        + Pragraph 2 + 3: State your reason why you support your ideas with 2 powerful and strong reason and some example or experience to support your idea.
        + Paragraph 4: Talk a little bit about the opposite opinion side to make it not look like you are biased.
        + Paragraph 5: Conclude

2. Narrative Essay:
- A Narrative Essay is an essay that describe a story of you or other people.
- It have to follow the time-space continuum order and doesn't jump from this to that so quickly.
- The story have to make sence in some way to other people too, not just to you.
- You can't you second person subject in this kind of essay.
- The format of the essay is:
        + Paragraph 1: Introduction to the story. Talk about the time and places that the story happen and try to lean a little bit towards the body of the story. Must have transition sentences or words to lead to the body.
        + Pragraph 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6....: The body of the story, talks about the main event of your story. Remember to concentrate on the tense.
       + Paragraph "Last": The Conlusion of the essay. Have to conlude the story and once again tell your experience on the story.

3. Lab Report:
- Lab Report Essay is a type of essay that inform the reader about the details, process, data, outcome, results of an experiment that you did.
- The format of a Lab Report Essay:
      + Tittle: You need to inform people on what you are doing with the experiment. Don't name your Report someting peotic.
      + Abstract: An overview on what you are doing and how you are going to achieve your goal.
      + Introduction: Talk about "Why?" you chose this project and how will this project teach you.
      + Materials and Methods: Talks about what you did. What kind of material you gather, how do you manage to gather those material, what have you done to the raw material that you gather.
      + Results: Talk about the detail results that you get. How many result that you get, Are yo statisfied with that result
      + Conclusion: What you learn from the experiment, does it prove the goal you set?

4. Exam Essay:
- An exam essay is basically could be all of those above.

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