Secondary School

Metodi Mitevski – Brico, Delchevo

Essay Writing Course

Career Centre Office at Secondary School Metodi Mitevski – Brico,

Delchevo

Counselor/Mentor Teacher of ESL, Zheleanka Demirova

Secondary School Metodi Mitevski – Brico, Delchevo

Welcome to session 5

Career Centre Office at Secondary School Metodi Mitevski – Brico,

Delchevo

Sorting factsWays to organize facts

31/03/2016

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1.Try to find logical connection between two words, or even better more…

2. Explain the logical connection in a note/sentence form. Here is your point. Go as further as you feel it is sufficient.

ORGANIZATION STARTS WITH NARROWING A TOPIC AND DECIDING ON A PURPOSE

SORTING FACTS

Narrowing the topic-organize

Fact notes

Fact notes

Fact notes

Pay special attention to balance of points in for & against essays.

The Abominable Snowman

By deciding on a purpose you have organized your facts even more. By deciding to convince your readers that the Abominable Snowman is a myth, you automatically rule out describing the Himalayan mountains where the Abominable is said to leave.

ELIMINATE UNRELATED FACT NOTES

During your research you probably collected some facts that you do not need. Although you might be tempted to use all facts that you have, you should remove those that do not fit your topic..

Look at the five fact notes that follow. One of them is not related to the others.

-Animals in the four major U.S. buffalo helrds-50,000.000-1865-Native Americans-vanished from Great Plains-1850s-Expanding railroads caused buffalo hunting-1867-Experts guess approximately 6,500,000 buffalo killed in Great Plains-1871-1874-By 1880 buffalo hard to find

Exercise: In each of the following group of words, four are closely related in some way. Write the word that is not related. Be prepared to explain what connection exists among the four remaining words.

1 lion elephant tiger lynx cheetah

2 hour minute day half century

3 Earth Mars sun Saturn Jupiter

4 herd flock mob tribe individual

5 continent gulf bay river lake

6 teach demonstrate explain show ignore

7 box rope twine thread string

8 dress coat shirt skirt ring

9 flute clock piano clarinet trumpet

Ways to organize facts

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER = Arrange facts or details in the order in which they took place (new stories and histories

ORDER OF IMPORTANCE = Arrange facts either from least important to most important or vice versa. (small to large, usual to unusualgood to best, bad to worst, and similar)

STEPS IN A PROCESS = When you give directions or tell how an experiment isdone, you arrange your facts according to the steps in the process. You keep the steps in exactly the right order - one after the other.

Kinds of supporting facts (Plan example: paragraph outline about dolls)

MAIN IDEA Dolls have not always been toys.

FACT NOTES

1. Witch doctors used ‘magic’ dolls for bringing rain, winning wars

2. Egyptian paddle dolls buried with important people to be friends in spirit world; decorated with paint and beads

3. Dolls as saints in church plays

4. Before fashion magazines, sent from France all over the world

The order in this plan is chronological. Order of importance also could have been used.

Ways to develop paragraphs

FACTS Can be checked or proved

SENSE DETAILS Details discovered with your senses (see, hear, smell, taste and feel)

EXAMPLES Another kind of facts

REASONS Why sth happened or why sth it is the way it is.

ANECDOTES Little stories (usually about people)

Practice……

Alaska lynx

End of session 5

Thank you!!!