After I knew how I wanted to structure the essay, I began writing. ... Also, I looked to make sure that my topic sentences supported my thesis statement, which I focused into two sentences. Overall, I think that my thesis was clear: "[Dunning] effectively proved his argument that confidence is often a facade to ignorance.... Another thing that I struggled with was determining what type of essay to write since it was a very open ended assignment. Ultimately, I decided to write more of a rhetorical analysis style essay. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the course of English 107, we were studying simple and basic knowledge of writing, such as thesis, PIE structure and how to use secondary sources. ... In particular, we not only need to write an essay that has clear thesis, right PIE structure and prefect format, but also need to know how to analyze essays, how to do research, narrow a topic and make arguments. ... Besides learning how to analyze an essay, I also learned how to do research and write controversial arguments. ... I decide to read more essays and look at how they write their essay via clever usage of ethos, logos and pathos, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In addition, we will discuss events occurring in the world today and both read and write about how these larger events affect our lives. ... Program Outcomes General Education Outcome Students will write effective expository and argumentative essays that consider purpose and audience. ... Related Objectives • consider audience and conduct audience analysis • use effective annotation of essays and note-taking strategies • engage in brainstorming, outlining, and drafting strategies • write multiple drafts • revise, edit, and proofread drafts &bul...

• Word Count: 6229
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School