Sorry we missed each other yesterday. I was running just a few minutes late, had to get gas in my daughter's car as we had to swap cars for the day and it was below empty, and had to fight with the copier once I got there to get the assignment copied that I had hoped to do with you yesterday. It's all good though because you can be better prepared for it by completing the following assignment for homework.
Find the section titled "Strategy Six: Development by Causal Analysis" in your text book on pp 263. Read that section, paying attention to the things you should do and should not do as you read the section. Then read the professional essay by Barbara Kingsolver's "How Mr. Dewey Decimal Changed My Life" on p. 691 in your text. Then identify each of the elements on the "should do" list in the essay and provide examples of them in your post. For example, the first tip is to provide a reasonable thesis statement. You would then determine what the thesis statement of Kingsolver's essay is, write it down, and then explain why you think it's reasonable or not. Do that for all of the tips.
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Thesis - " I was underpaid, and I was required to perform some of the most disgusting cleaning tasks imaginable. These factors caused me to devalue myself as a person and ultimately motivated me to return to school in hope of regaining my self-respect."
I was led to believe that this was the thesis statement because not only does it contain the statement "these factors", but it summarizes what the entire essay is about.
Major causes or effects:
The writer clearly used only major causes and effects and she did this by only describing the most disturbing tasks she had to perform as a maid. One example of this was when she described the rooms the teenagers left behind (the vomit, the bed linen in the toilet, etc...)
Organize your essay clearly:
The writer did this because she clearly stated her causes and effects. Example...> because people would constantly get mad at her and tell her she missed something or didn't do it good enough, she became, in her mind, a servant undeserving of gratitude.
1. A librarian named Miss Truman Richey snatched me from the jaws of ruin, and its too late now to thank her. - this thesis statement tells how this person was helped out by this lady, but can't thank her because its too late to.
2. cause- there were only two courses of study that ran for four consecutive years and they were Home EC for girls and Shop for boys
effect- from taking the Home EC class she now knows how to upholster, color-coordinate a table setting, and plan a wedding
Thesis - I was underpaid, and I was required to perform some of the most disgusting cleaning tasks imaginable. These factors caused me to devalue myself as a person and ultimately motivated me to return to school in hope of regaining my self-respect.
I felt this was the thesis statment because it summarized what the essay was about.
causes and effects- The writer used clear causes and had there effects clearly explained.
Thesis- But now that I see the wreck that could have been, without Miss Richey, I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around...
I think this is the thesis statement because it sets up the rest of the story, telling that she is thankful for Miss Richey and all librarians for making her what she is today.
She just mentions the main reason she became a writer, and that is because her librarian got her to help her in the library during school.
She organizes it clearly because the whole story is about the cause of her becoming a writer.
She shows how helping in the library made her want to be a writer because it got her interested in literature.
Thesis- But now that I see the wreck that could have been, without Miss Richey, I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
I feel that this is the thesis statement because it sums up what the essay will be about.
She realizes that the causes of her becoming a writer are because the librarian got her interested in literature. If she would not have been noticed by the librarian they would be reupholstering her mother's couch...again!
"I was underpaid, and I was required to perform some of the most disgusting cleaning tasks imaginable. These factors caused me to devalue myself as a person and ultimately motivated me to return to school in hope of regaining my self-respect."
To me this is the thesis statement of the essay, because in a good thesis the sentence will cover all the points that the essay will touch upon.
In this essay to me there were only two cause and effects thought the whole essay? One of these would be the condition that the rooms were left in after the guest had left.
Thesis: But now that I see the wreck that could have been, without Miss Richey, I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
I think this is the thesis statement of the essay, because it is an opening the the rest of the story. She goes on to tell the story of why Miss Richey saved her future, which is what the whole essay is about.
Major causes of effects: She used this strategy well because she only told us one cause and two effects; helping Miss Richey in the library caused her to actually read the books and want to become a writer.
Organization: She organized the causes and effects very clearly with only one major cause and splitting off from it are a few major efffects.
Existence of Causal Relationships: The writer does not only give the causes and effects, she also explains why the causes brought about the effects.
Thesis- "But now i see the wreck that could have been, w/out Miss Richey, I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
I think that this is the thesis statement because it gives you a short overview of what the story may be about and it seems like a very powerful statement to me
Limit essay to effects- the write did limit her essay to significant causes that led to sighnificant effect of the essay she used her high school experiences to show that
Organization- the organization was fuzzy to me at first but as i read on it became more understandable and ended up being to me in a good organizational pattern
Convincing a relationship exists- the writer displayed this well i though because she compared it to the locate motorcycle gang and it helped to make a metal picture of what she was trying to explain
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