Response essay to Po Bronson’s essay
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Response essay to Po Bronson’s essay
Last week, we worked on idea maps/outlines for our response essay to Po Bronson’s essay, “What Should I Do With My Life? (located in our textbook, Theme 2, Today’s Workplace, beginning on pg.750). Let us review your writing assignment for the essay:
Bronson says, “We are all writing the story of our own life. It is not a story of conquest. It is a story of discovery. Through trial and error, we learn what gifts we have to offer the world and are pushed to greater recognition about what we really need.” Describe some of the “gifts you have to offer the world” and some of the “things you really need.”
At this stage, you have outlined your thoughts about the gifts that you offer the world and the things that you really need to live your life. You have an idea map to guide your thinking and some peer reviews. We discussed writing oriented subjects like:
•organizing our ideas
•structuring paragraphs
•developing our written thoughts through details and specifics, and—very important—
•imagining our readers and what main point we want them to take away from our essay.
Elements of an Essay
Every personal essay, book chapter, newspaper article, magazine profile, scholarly research article—everything that you read in the English language is comprised of these parts:
1. Introduction
2. Details and development
3. Organizational plan (invisible, but present in the writer’s mind and used to create a good piece of writing that makes sense to the reader’s mind)
4. Voice and tone
5. Sentence mechanics
6. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation
7. Conclusion
Your “Letter about Process” will touch on four areas, so your letter will be five or six paragraphs long—you will have your letter’s introduction, a paragraph devoted to each of the following elements, and a conclusion. The elements you will write about are
1. Introduction of your response essay
2. Details and development you want to include in your response essay
3. Organizational plan you want to use in your response essay
5. Conclusion to your response essay
(Sentence mechanics and grammar, spelling, and punctuation are important, but they are “proofreading” items that a Smart thinking tutor can review.)
Get started by thinking about these questions. To write your “Letter about Process,” use what you’ve learned about the entire writing process: create an idea map/outline of your answers to these questions, then draft your letter, let it set for a day or two, then return to it and make sure that it includes everything you want your instructor to know about your plans for your essay.
Here are some questions to get you started with your “Letter about Process:”
1. What lesson do you want your readers to learn from your essay about your gifts and what you really need? OR What do you want your readers to understand about you and your values?
2. How will you revise your introduction to get your reader’s interest and to let him/her know how you’ll proceed through the essay?
3. How will you organize your essay so it presents your points in the best order possible?
4. What details and development are you going to use to build up your essay and make good, strong connections with your reader?
5. How will you conclude your essay to leave your reader with a strong statement about your perspective and why it’s important?
Remember that the purpose of this essay is to help you make conscious decisions, as a writer, about how you are going to revise and improve your written work.
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