Essay One Instructions

Bryant & Stratton College

ENGL 099

Paper One

Rough draft due: Tuesday, November 9

Final draft due: Thursday, November 18

Format: 1.5-2 pages, typed, double spaced, with 12 in font and 1 inch margins. Be sure to proofread your papers well, because if you type too quickly, you can make needless errors.

Assignment: Expand your process analysis paragraph into a complete paper or choose another topic to write a process analysis paper about. To remind yourself of what a process analysis entails, review the following pages:

p. 389-390 explains how to write a DIRECTIVE process analysis, which is the kind we wrote and is the kind you should write for our paper.

p. 407 is a short paragraph example of a process analysis, but remember that your paper needs to be longer.

pp. 409-410 is the essay about working for a dermatologist that we went over in class

pp. 412-413 lists other topics you could use if you don’t like your original process analysis paragraph

Last but not least, review Ch. 16 and 17 for tips on how to write your essay (p. 285).

Requirements:

____Introduction that grabs the readers’ attention

____Thesis statement that sums up ALL MAIN steps you’ll be explaining in the paper

____One body paragraph for each MAIN STEP you explain, minimum of three body paragraphs

____A conclusion that sums up your main point and leaves your readers with something to think about (Don’t repeat the same language you use in the introduction or thesis).











Organization Form



My topic (what I’ll be explaining how to do): __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Steps I’ll be describing:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



How might I get the readers’ attention in the Introduction? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________