tailieunhanh - Express Yourself writing skill for high school part 2

You’ll notice that once you have restated the question or prompt in this form, you have written out your main idea. Then, and only then, are you ready to. This is the second stage of planning your essay where you’ll have to figure out exactly what information you need so that you don’t leave anything out. | You ll notice that once you have restated the question or prompt in this form you have written out your main idea. Then and only then are you ready to decide the supporting details examples and explanations necessary to support that main idea. This is the second stage of planning your essay where you ll have to figure out exactly what information you need so that you don t leave anything out. Very often content-specific essay questions have more than one part like the Supreme Court question above or the Industrial Revolution question. To make sure you don t omit anything you should prepare an outline to follow. This doesn t have to be a formal outline it could be a graphic organizer. But you should lay out what s required. For example let s go back to the Supreme Court case question. My purpose is to explain three court cases for decision circumstances and historical significance. SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL CASE DECISION CIRCUMSTANCE SIGNIFICANCE 1. 2. 3. This is sometimes referred to as boxing the question to make sure you cover all the information that is required. This visual organization strategy is one of several that you ll be shown in the course of this book. Organizers help you in two ways. First and probably most important a visual organizer requires that you identify the information that you will use in the essay. If you find that you are missing information you may change your topic to something about which you are more confident. In the above essay if you start filling in the boxes and realize you have a blank box because you are unsure of the decision in the Miranda case then you might go back to choose another case. The second way that a graphic organizer helps you is that you get to see the paragraph structure of your essay before you start to write. This will help you make sure that your writing is logical and organized. In the Supreme Court case essay the boxing shows that you will need at least three body paragraphs plus an introduction and .