ing Your Essay With A Graphic Organizer

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1 ing Your Essay With A Graphic Organizer an your essay given all that we have talked about: you lso start by putting your thesis in a central bubble as inder that it guides your writing. That thesis will be n your intro paragraph. ch two other bubbles off of the center bubble to sent your twp examples. It should look like this: Example 1 Thesis (Introductory Paragraph) Example 2

2 ing Your Essay With A Graphic Organizer ever, your plan is NOT to write about general ples, but to write about two instances of each ple, so you can must be more specific. ch two other bubbles off of the example bubbles to sent your 2 instances of each example. It should look his: ample 1/Instance 1 Thesis (Introductory Paragraph) Example 2/Instance 1 Example 1/Instance 2 Example 2/Instance 2

3 g Visual Details To Each Paragraph can now visualize these instances in the form of Schaffer graphs. mentary Commentary Commenta Example 1/Intance 1 1 Paragraph Thesis (Introductory Paragraph) 1 Paragraph Example 2/Instance 1 1 Paragraph Comm Commentary Example 1/Instance 2 1 Paragraph Concrete Detail Commentary Concrete Detail

4 riting Your Essay When You Have CDs and CMs In Mi Each Instance Bubble Map mentary Commentary You can complete these bubbl units by adding bubbles for the TS, CD, CM1, CM2, and CS. Example 1/Instance 1 tail ic Sentence Concluding Sentence Each grouping of one TS, 1 CD two CMs, and a CS is ONE bo paragraph, where you analyze ONE instance of an example.

5 tant Note the idea of graphic organizers (webbing, etc.) to plan how th graphs will function in your essay. You must know what each graph needs to do. ne writes excellent essays by just sitting down and typi planning will play off as you plug it into the writing formula.

6 ned Schaffer Already. Please Make top. earch Backs It ms a Basis For All Analyses and All Types of ays Be Used Across Disciplines History, Englis chology

7 Schaffer Method ith Schaffer, each paragraph MUST CONTAIN the following e sentences: opic sentence (What the instance is) oncrete detail (the specific moment within the instance) st commentary (the HOW or SIGNIFICANCE of this instanc cond commentary (more SIGNIFICANCE this time, loopin concrete detail back to the thesis) oncluding sentence, or what I like to think of as a ANSITION sentence into the next paragraph.

8 and Concluding Sentences PIC SENTENCE (TS) used to open the paragraph, and tells WHAT TANCE the paragraph deals with. It introduces the tance for the reader. NCLUDING SENTENCE (CS) ed to segue or transition OUT of a paragraph and O the next paragraph, or, to close an entire essay.

9 rete Detail CRETE DETAIL (CD) detail/fact from the instance allows you to construct argument. CD works as to provide the detail of the instance (a e, a description of that moment, etc.)

10 entary MMENTARY (CM) ommentary is your idea about the concrete detail and how that ncrete detail PROVES YOUR THESIS. is sentence is the most complex, and is where the analysis of yo say occurs. The commentary sentences will be the most allenging part of the year.

11 entary mentary is the stuff from your head or things that exist und urface of the concrete detail mentary is the why, the how, the analysis, and interpretati racter s feelings, opinion, insight, etc. CD s are INTERPRET OU through comments, and thus the term commentary. commentaries should ALWAYS work to support your master s. They cannot be random thoughts.

12 Commentary ember that commentary (CM) is meant to analy text. n doing commentary, pretend you are a hologist that is trying to figure out the reasons fo something happened, or that you are a mentator for a football game. mmentary (CM) is NOT a concrete detail.

13 to Start a Commentary Sentence following can help you in creating commentary sentence his shows that his also shows that his indicates his is important because he significance of this is would seem that ne reason this happened could be

14 Flash t students who write at 2 s and 3 s on a 6-lev ic construct paragraphs consisting of mainly and neglect commentary. out commentary, analysis cannot happen.

15 atio Schaffer paragraph works under a strict ra ne concrete detail followed by two mentaries or a 1:2 ratio. Concrete Detail (CD) Commentaries (CM)

16 at of the Paragraph ic Sentence (TS) Introduces the instance crete Detail (CD) Presents a detail from the instance mentary (CM) This shows that mentary (CM) This also shows cluding Transitions out of paragraph and into the next tence (CS)

17 e Rule: Do NOT Write Essays For Me That Summarize eadings. This is not our objective in E11. NOT summarize, at any length the racters, or the scenes in our essays. low Schaffer to produce commentary to k to your thesis.