Digital Journal #4
During class today, we worked together to consider some ways we might focus an expository essay. We worked to narrow the meaning of Erin Somers’ essay “Modern Vice” down to her most basic concept. We decided that her implied thesis is: We use these often fabricated societal expectations to judge one another in often artificial ways.
In digital journal post #3, you brainstormed an idea (or two). Now, we are moving a step further in the critical thinking and brainstorming from topic to your stance/your point/your concept.
If you are defining a concept (whether you will be doing it in a story form like Somers does or in a non-fiction and more traditional essay format), at the most bare of your topic, there ought to be a concept you are going to define. What is it? Try to keep your concept down to 3 or 4 words. This will make it much easier as we then build an essay.
If you are describing an event or an occasion - what is it? At its bare minimum? Try to keep your “naming” of this kind of topic to a short, quick, and brief sentence.
How are you thinking you might want to structure your essay? To brainstorm this you might draw out a possible outline.
Please reply to this post on your own blog. Your response to this post is due by our class meeting on Friday, September 1.
