FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II
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INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITING
INSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield
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FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II&INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITINGINSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield
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English 1010 Instructor: James Maxfield Exercise # 3: Revising your Opening Paragraph and Placement of Thesis Statement Instructions: These sentences in the box below have been rearranged from an actual essay. The thesis sentence and title (shown in bold text) are given to you. Type the sentences out and arrange them into 3 different paragraphs that could each serve as the opening of an essay. Each paragraph should demonstrate a different potential strategy of placing the thesis sentence in the beginning, middle, or end of the essay introduction. It is alright to make slight changes in a sentence, such as changing the verb tense or to change transitional words to make the sentences flow and connect. There may be more than one good strategy. Determine which arrangement and thesis placement seems the strongest and flows the best? I will give you the author’s actual arrangement, thesis placement, and the essay for you to review later. The Marginal World Today a little more land may belong to the sea, tomorrow a little less. Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. It rises or falls as the glaciers melt or grow, as the floor of the deep ocean basins shifts under its increasing load of sediments, or as the earth’s crust along the continental margins warps up or down in adjustment to strain and tension. Not only do the tides advance and retreat in their eternal rhythms, but the level of the sea itself is never at rest. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same. What type of rhetorical mode does the language and sentence structure suggest: Narration, Process, Cause and Effect, Description, Example, Comparison and Contrast? |
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