First, explain three important requirements for creating a successful process analysis essay. These are in the homework reading for the chapter.
Next, create a process analysis paragraph in which you explain how to be a successful college student. Make sure your paragraph has a topic sentence and at least 10 sentences of supporting information. You should practice using sentences that have dependent and independent clauses (sentences that use the ABBI SAW A WUWU words). Make sure that your paragraph incorporates the requirements to make a good process analysis.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
First Work with Process Analysis
A process analysis is an explanation of how to do something or how something happens. For instance, a person may choose to give instructions for the best way to buy a used car. That person is telling the reader how to do something, and the reader can then follow those instructions. Sometimes, a writer may explain how something happens so that the reader simply understands the process. For instance, making steel is an amazing process, but you, the reader, aren't going to go out and make steel yourself. However, a clear explanation of how iron ore becomes steel will help you understand it.
Many times in life, we find ourselves having to do brand new things that we feel uncertain about. I was pretty nervous when I had to drain my very leaky hot water heater so that it would stop spewing water all over the basement floor. I had never done it before, so I found a reliable video on the internet and followed the instructions exactly. I didn't flood my house, and I was successful. It's a small thing, but I felt pretty accomplished when I called my husband with the news.
Unfortunately, sometimes we don't have the internet to help us, and we have to do things on the spot. In the days before everybody had a GPS, I was going to Michigan to join friends for a weekend. We did this every year when our kids were small. However, I overshot my exit onto 94, and because I was daydreaming, I didn't realize it until I had gone considerably further and had no idea where I was. I have a horrible sense of direction, and I ended up stopping every few miles to ask someone in a store or gas station what to do next. Some people had heard of where I was going, and others had no idea. It took me twice as long to get to my destination, and what I needed was a good map, good written instructions--and a mind that didn't wander!
You have two jobs for this blog:
1. Think of a time when you had really great instructions for how to do something. You followed the process, and you were successful. What was the process, and why did the instructions work so well?
2. Think of another time when you had to do something, and you really needed a lot more information than you had. However, you had no choice but to do it anyway. What did you need to know that you didn't? Were you able to muddle through or not?
I want eight to ten sentences for each response. Make each one a separate paragraph with a topic sentence.
Many times in life, we find ourselves having to do brand new things that we feel uncertain about. I was pretty nervous when I had to drain my very leaky hot water heater so that it would stop spewing water all over the basement floor. I had never done it before, so I found a reliable video on the internet and followed the instructions exactly. I didn't flood my house, and I was successful. It's a small thing, but I felt pretty accomplished when I called my husband with the news.
Unfortunately, sometimes we don't have the internet to help us, and we have to do things on the spot. In the days before everybody had a GPS, I was going to Michigan to join friends for a weekend. We did this every year when our kids were small. However, I overshot my exit onto 94, and because I was daydreaming, I didn't realize it until I had gone considerably further and had no idea where I was. I have a horrible sense of direction, and I ended up stopping every few miles to ask someone in a store or gas station what to do next. Some people had heard of where I was going, and others had no idea. It took me twice as long to get to my destination, and what I needed was a good map, good written instructions--and a mind that didn't wander!
You have two jobs for this blog:
1. Think of a time when you had really great instructions for how to do something. You followed the process, and you were successful. What was the process, and why did the instructions work so well?
2. Think of another time when you had to do something, and you really needed a lot more information than you had. However, you had no choice but to do it anyway. What did you need to know that you didn't? Were you able to muddle through or not?
I want eight to ten sentences for each response. Make each one a separate paragraph with a topic sentence.
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