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Tutorial 2:
Saturday (20.8.16)
Introduction
Opening sentence: Begin your outline by drafting your
opening sentence " will it be an announcement, refutation,
question, quotation, or a definition?
Background information: Next, decide what background
information you want to give on advertising. Keep it short " just
enough so that your readers know what advertising is.
Thesis statement: Finally, you complete your introduction
with a thesis statement that tells your readers what you intend to
discuss in your essay. You can simply state that you will discuss
the two opposing views followed by your own personal view"
three views in all. You will need three body paragraphs for each
of the three different views.
Body
Conclusion
The conclusion is almost similar to the
introduction. However, you should avoid repeating
the exact words.
Restatement: Restate the thesis statement
with different words " consult your dictionary or
thesaurus for synonyms. Your restatement need
not be in a single sentence. It is basically a
summary of the thesis statement, or a brief
summary of what were discussed in the body
paragraphs.
Build an outline.
1. Block Organisation
In a block organisation, you discuss all your causes as a
single block " i.e. all your body paragraphs are about only
the causes. Of course, all your body paragraphs can also
be about effects only. Your choice of what you write in a
block organisation depends on the question. Obviously,
you can write about both the causes and effects in your
essay. You may write about the causes in several
paragraphs in the first block, and the effects in the following
paragraphs in the second block. You decide whether what
you want to discuss first " the causes or the effects.
2. Chain organisation
In a chain organisation, all the causes and effects
are linked or connected to each other. You can
have all the linked causes and effects in a single
paragraph, or you can discuss the individual links
in separate paragraphs.
For example, you can do this:
Discuss all the five links in one single paragraph,
or
Discuss all the five links in five separate
paragraphs.
1. Block organisation
In a block organisation, you discuss all
the similarities in one block, and all the
differences in another block.
2. Point-by-point organisation
In a point-by-point organisation, you
devote a paragraph for each point or
feature.
Formulating a Thesis
Statement
Identify not only the subjects to be
compared and contrasted in your
essay, but the point you will make about
them.
Also indicate whether you will focus on
similarities or differences, or balance the
two.
Remember
Comparative essays could be a
comparison between:
1. Two things.
2. Different views.
3. Events.
4. People
Essay pattern
Your topic sentence should identify your
topic (the term being defined) and the
controlling idea (category of term, and its
characteristic).