Lively Art Of Writing An Essay
Emma Watson
AP Language and Composition
Mrs. Luebbehusen
3 August 2015
The Lively Art of Writing Summer Assignment
Chapter 1 The difference between an opinion and fact is that an opinion is a judgement made by a person on a fact, while a fact is a piece of knowledge that can be proven to be true or is accepted as common knowledge. Facts are needed in an essay so that the author can form an opinion on the facts. The subject of an essay is an opinion on a certain fact or set of facts and facts are then needed within the essay itself to bolster the opinion of the author. One opinion is not always as good as another. If a person writes a paper based on something he or she is familiar with, he or she will most likely have enough …show more content…
The “picture-frame paragraph”, while a different way of looking at the construction of a paragraph, still uses the same basic paragraph structure. A “picture-frame” paragraph in an argumentative essay differs from one that is primarily descriptive in that it will have to lean more heavily on concrete facts and has to tell why instead of just using descriptions.
Chapter 7 A paragraph, while it can stand alone, still needs to be linked to the other paragraphs because it is only one part of the subject of the essay. The essay is like a train in that the introduction states, or announces, the topic much like a locomotive. Each paragraph in the middle section is like a freight car in that each pulls its own weight by illustrating a topic and having a conclusion, but it is also connected to the other cars, or paragraphs. The conclusion is the caboose in that it pulls everything together and gives a view of the completed idea. Standard devices, paragraph hooks, and a combination of the two are the three types of transitions that can be used in an …show more content…
Chapter 8 I active voice, the subject is doing something, while in passive voice , the subject is having something done to it. An example of active voice is, “The girl danced with the boy all night. This sentence in passive voice is, “The girl was dancing with the boy all night.” 6. A writer can apply the Chinese proverb, “One picture is worth more than ten thousand words,” to writing in that, when a subject does something, it is much stronger than adding words and having something done to a subject.
Chapter 9 3. Written sentences should sound like natural speech, but cannot be natural speech as natural speech is accompanied with facial expressions, fluctuations in tone, hand movements, etc. Written speech must be embellished to match the tone of natural speech. 4. The principle of rhythm in writing is variation of sentence length. 9. To add details to a verb, the writer just needs to add how or when it happens to another part of the sentence to add more weight to it.
Chapter 10 The best way for a writer to learn parallel structure is by listening to
AP Language and Composition
Mrs. Luebbehusen
3 August 2015
The Lively Art of Writing Summer Assignment
Chapter 1 The difference between an opinion and fact is that an opinion is a judgement made by a person on a fact, while a fact is a piece of knowledge that can be proven to be true or is accepted as common knowledge. Facts are needed in an essay so that the author can form an opinion on the facts. The subject of an essay is an opinion on a certain fact or set of facts and facts are then needed within the essay itself to bolster the opinion of the author. One opinion is not always as good as another. If a person writes a paper based on something he or she is familiar with, he or she will most likely have enough …show more content…
The “picture-frame paragraph”, while a different way of looking at the construction of a paragraph, still uses the same basic paragraph structure. A “picture-frame” paragraph in an argumentative essay differs from one that is primarily descriptive in that it will have to lean more heavily on concrete facts and has to tell why instead of just using descriptions.
Chapter 7 A paragraph, while it can stand alone, still needs to be linked to the other paragraphs because it is only one part of the subject of the essay. The essay is like a train in that the introduction states, or announces, the topic much like a locomotive. Each paragraph in the middle section is like a freight car in that each pulls its own weight by illustrating a topic and having a conclusion, but it is also connected to the other cars, or paragraphs. The conclusion is the caboose in that it pulls everything together and gives a view of the completed idea. Standard devices, paragraph hooks, and a combination of the two are the three types of transitions that can be used in an …show more content…
Chapter 8 I active voice, the subject is doing something, while in passive voice , the subject is having something done to it. An example of active voice is, “The girl danced with the boy all night. This sentence in passive voice is, “The girl was dancing with the boy all night.” 6. A writer can apply the Chinese proverb, “One picture is worth more than ten thousand words,” to writing in that, when a subject does something, it is much stronger than adding words and having something done to a subject.
Chapter 9 3. Written sentences should sound like natural speech, but cannot be natural speech as natural speech is accompanied with facial expressions, fluctuations in tone, hand movements, etc. Written speech must be embellished to match the tone of natural speech. 4. The principle of rhythm in writing is variation of sentence length. 9. To add details to a verb, the writer just needs to add how or when it happens to another part of the sentence to add more weight to it.
Chapter 10 The best way for a writer to learn parallel structure is by listening to