Reaction to Sophomore Summer Read Essays 2008
1. Need to actually read text in order to intelligently discuss it.
2. Address prompt and mode – this was an argumentative piece, not a summary or book report.
3. Provide context early in essays.
4. State thesis clearly early in essay.
5. Underline titles of books and provide author’s name.
6. Use several paragraphs: five paragraph essay would be minimum structure you want to use; typically, a good essay has 8-19 paragraphs.
7. Provide an interesting title.
8. Use homonyms correctly.
9. Spell out all numbers zero to ten. 11 and above write as a numeral.
10. Use specific facts to support generalizations.
11. Do not use a pronoun without making it clear who or what you are referring to: e.g. “They were not effective doing that” is not a good first sentence as your reader has no idea what you are talking about.
12. Write like the person reading your work hasn’t read the book or seen the prompt.
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