A well written essay includes not only facts but an explanation of how those facts support the main idea. In fact, the majority of an essay should be explanations. To show this concept, in class this week we read an essay that a student last year wrote during the AP Literature and Composition test, and focused on the different ways the author got their point across. First we read through the piece to become familiar with it. This particular essay had earned a perfect, allowing us to see what the instructors look for when they are grading the AP Literature and Composition essays. Then we learned what the different writing moves are, illustrating, authorizing, and extending. When an author uses illustrating, they list facts or literary tools that were used in the piece they had to analyze. Authorizing is direct quotes that were taken from from other pieces, and extending is describing the information that was used. After learning this, we used highlighters to distinguish the different writing moves in the essay. It soon became evident the main writing move this person used was extending. Directly after they said a quote or discussed a part of the poem they were analyzing they explained why they used that particular piece of information. As a result of this activity, I understand to a greater extent why it is important to extend on the information you use while writing. It allows the readers to see what your thought process was while writing and explains how that fact connected to their main idea. http://manoa.hawaii.edu/undergrad/learning/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/MAIN-IDEAS-AND-SUPPORTING.pdf
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