PowerPoints
Getting Started in The Writing Process (PACES Model)--Part 1 & 2
This presentation demonstrates a prewriting strategy that is useful for generating ideas before drafting an essay.
Writing An Effective Thesis Statement
These slides describe the necessary parts of a powerful thesis statement.
Some Tips for Formal Writing
The Criteria for Strong Evidence
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This presentation takes a look at how you can assess the overabundance of evidence that is available to you--mostly online--in various research materials.
Know Think Feel (KTF) Metacognitive Exercise
These slides discuss the importance of megacognition--the process of thinking about thinking. As we explore our learning strategies, we should think about HOW we learn, how we approach topics with ex
isting knowledge which we can then use to formulate ideas that evoke emotional responses.
Writing An Exemplification Essay
Exemplification, or using examples to prove a point, is an essential writing strategy. This PPT will review the parts of exemplification and the types of examples that are best used to illustrate general ideas--to make the abstract concrete.
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Writing a Narrative Essay (The Familiar Essay, 2013-2014)
This PowerPoint covers the fundamental parts of a story: the four parts that must be included to make a point in a narrative.
Writing Introductions, Conclusions, & Titles (applied to Essay #2)
MLA Documentation Overview
Writing the Cause-Effect Essay
Writing a Compare-Contrast Essay
This PowerPoint helps students write an essay demonstrating how two items, objects, people, or places are alike or different.
Example of Oral Presentation PowerPoint
Here is what a 5-7 minute PPT presentation might look like for a Listverse list on odd ways to punish children. Notice that there are relevant images for each of the listed items. Also, on the final slide, there is opportunity to get the class involved with some questions.
Explanation of Essay #1: Ethnography, Discourse Community, and the Use of Narrative
This PPT will assist you in writing your first essay. It defines the terms, gives examples of DCs, and presents the structure and parameters of the paper.
Essay #1 (Ethnographies)--Sample Introductions/Theses, Supporting Pargraphs, & Conclusions
PowerPoint Covering the Structure for Essay #4: Argument-Persuasion
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11fPeEFDBucEftmCZJtwq1eEPBk-a45ds7-sSQkWaxn4/edit?usp=sharing
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THE RESEARCH PROCESS
This PPT covers the step in the Writing Process as they relate to constructing a research paper.