WR 399—Doherty: Essay 6 (T/Th) Spring 2017 Essay 6 at a Glance
Essay 6 is your chance to use everything we have learned this semester to write an excellent essay. Here’s your chance to show the
skills you have developed in carefully reading and understanding texts and making connections among the ideas in multiple texts to
discuss the message your memoir shares about motivation, change, and response to adversity. This will require that you continue to
choose strong specific examples from the text and explain your analytical connections to readers.
Main Goals for Essay 6 Focus your essay with a strong thesis statement that makes a claim about your chosen memoir’s message about motivation,
change, and/or response to adversity and states the reasons for that claim (your “because” statement). Provide effective and developed support for your claim by summarizing the ideas from your memoir as well as the other
three texts you are using to analyze your memoir’s message. Critically analyze the ideas in the text to make a claim about your memoir’s message, and explain this analysis to readers,
making connections among the ideas in the texts. Create organized paragraphs that focus on one main point and divide your argument into manageable chunks for your
readers
Prompt for Essay 6
For your final essay assignment, you will be analyzing your memoir through the lens of the readings we have completed this
semester. Your essay should focus on making a claim about the overall message of the memoir based on what we have learned
about the different ways in which people are motivated, how people can change, and how people respond to adversity through the
various texts we have read this semester.
In coming up with your essay’s focus, I encourage you to think about all that you’ve learned in the texts we’ve read this semester, but
in your essay, you only need to discuss three of these texts: Grit from Angela Duckworth’s TED Talk “The Key to Success? Grit” and Angela Duckworth’s article “The Significance of Grit” “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” by John Holt Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset from Carol Dweck’s article “Brainology” Sources of motivation, including autonomy, mastery, and purpose, from Daniel Pink’s book Drive Habit formation and change based on Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit Outside influences on our habits based on Lauren Slater’s chapter “Rat Park: The Radical Addiction Experiment” from her
book Opening Skinner’s Box Cruelty and human nature from Stanley Milgram’s essay “The Perils of Obedience” and Lauren Slater’s chapter “In the
Unlikely Event of a Water Landing: Darley and Latane’s Training Manual—A Five Stage Approach” from her book Opening
Skinner’s Box
Remember to consider the grey areas and to think about the complexities in both your memoir and other texts, and in your essay, be
sure to include: Support for your argument with relevant ideas, information, and quotations from your memoir Support for your argument with relevant ideas, information, and quotations from at least three of the texts we have read
this semester
Things to Shoot For: Show that you have carefully read your memoir and the other texts this semester and that you have fully and considered the
different viewpoints and evidence. Show you are really thinking about the topic—these are complex ideas, so don’t settle for easy answers. Write so that someone who is not in our class could understand it. Assume your audience has not read any these texts. Write at least 6 complete pages.
Turn-in Procedures: Your final draft is due via email on _____________________ Your Writing Center formal conference must be completed by _____________________. Bring assignment folder with a hard copy of your final draft, any rough drafts, your completed Writing Center signature
form, and a blank rubric to class on Wednesday, December 7 th. If you complete your Writing Center conference after class
this class, please scan and email the copy of the signature form with your final draft. WR 399—Doherty: Essay 6 (T/Th) Spring 2017
Writing Center Signature Form Writing Conference Instructor: _________________________________________________ Writing Conference Instructor’s Signature: _________________________________________________ Date and time of your visit: _________________________________________________ Remember, The signature form must be completed by _____________________
You must bring the prompt, this signature sheet, and any writing you have completed to get credit for a formal
conference in WR 380.
This sheet must be signed, dated, and completed in order to receive credit for your conference in WR 399.
You can only get credit for one formal conference per writing assignment, but I encourage you to meet with an
instructor more than once during your writing process. Main Goals for Essay 6 Focus your essay with a strong thesis statement that makes a claim about your chosen memoir’s message about
motivation, change, and/or response to adversity and states the reasons for that claim (your “because”
statement). Provide effective and developed support for your claim by summarizing the ideas from your memoir as well as
the other three texts you are using to analyze your memoir’s message. Critically analyze the ideas in the text to make a claim about your memoir’s message, and explain this analysis
to readers, making connections among the ideas in the texts. Create organized paragraphs that focus on one main point and divide your argument into manageable chunks
for your readers Instructions for Your Conference
For your formal conference, please have the instructor look at your thesis statement AND at least one section of your
essay in which you discuss how one of the texts we read this semester connects to your memoir. Ask your instructor to
focus on your summary of ideas from the text and, most importantly, your analysis of how this text connects to your
memoir’s overall message about motivation, change, and/or reaction to adversity (goals 2 and 3 above).
Here, before your conference, prepare one specific question about your chosen section to ask your instructor. Your
question should focus on your critical analysis in that section:
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Use the space below to explain what you learned and how you will change your draft based on your conference:
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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ WR 399—Doherty: Essay 6 (T/Th) Reading Activities Spring 2017 Essay 6 See Assignment Grid Blog Posts Essay 6 Blog 14 Blog 15 Share your first impressions of the book you are reading for Essay 6. What made you choose this book? What do
you find interesting so far? What do you like about the book? Is there anything that’s confusing or causing you
difficulty so far? What are you looking forward to in your reading?
Would you recommend the book you read to others? Why or why not? What did you like about the book
overall? What parts did you not enjoy so much? Share your overall opinion of the book you read. Blog 16 (Last one! Try not to cry! ) In our last blog entry of the semester, please share your overall feelings about our class. How have your grown
both as a student and as a writer? What in the class worked well for you? What caused you difficulty? What
would you say to a student who was planning to take this class next semester? Name: WR 399—Doherty: Essay 6 (T/Th)
Critical Analysis Spring 2017
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passing Use a critical voice to show you have thought critically about the topic
Discuss complexities and not make things seem more simple than they are
Make strong analytical claims in your thesis and topic sentences
Explain how the supporting evidence connects to your thesis and analysis Using the text
Use TAG (title, author, genre) statements to introduce texts
Explain the ideas in the text for readers who have not read the text
Choose effective quotations to support your discussion
Smoothly incorporate quotations into your writing
Effectively paraphrase and/or summarize ideas from the text
Let readers know where you got the information by citing sources (MLA) Development
Develop your intro paragraph(s) (hook, background information/context,
and thesis statement)
Control your essay with a strong thesis statement (topic, claim, and
reasons)
Control your body paragraphs with topic sentences that connect to the
thesis
Use specific examples, quotations, and paraphrases to support main ideas
Explain how examples, quotations, and paraphrases support main ideas
Develop a conclusion that provides final thoughts for readers to take away Organization
Control the content and organization of your essay with your thesis
Present ideas in an order that makes sense to readers
Break your ideas into manageable chunks for your readers
Focus each paragraph on one main idea
Close paragraphs with a sentence(s) that completes the discussion and/or
prepares readers for the next paragraph Grammar and Mechanics
Observe conventions of standard written English
Write in a clear, readable style
Write using well-chosen words and effective sentence variety
Take time to carefully proofread your writing Minimum Requirements—the “must dos”
Participate in all drafting activities, such as prewriting, peer review, and individual conferences
Meet the minimum page length requirements for the assignment meeting the
requirements developing
the skill WR 399—Doherty: Essay 6 (T/Th) Spring 2017 Format your paper according to MLA standards Writing Center Conference
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