Guess who's been ill for the past week? That's right. Me.
I fell victim to a common cold which then developed into a fever and resulted in me missing three of my classes, including Effective Writing. While I was holed up in my room, high on the medicine provided by the clinic, the rest of the class were learning about persuasive writing.
Though I had missed the class, I had asked several friends to recount everything that had happened and they are as recorded below:
Firstly, the lecturer gave everyone sample essays on persuasive writing, which they were then asked to look through to understand how it was written. They then had to identify the thesis statements, topic sentences, main and supporting ideas, verbs, words that we did not know as well as the conclusions.
Next, once one person was done with their piece, they swapped for another and the cycle continued until all samples were analyzed in the class. I had a friend save a few of those essays so I could participate in the homework later (even though I was absent).
This strategy helped us as students to see how authors or writers branch out in their ideas. The use of transitions in the essays also showed us how one paragraph can be connected to the next smoothly. I was most interested to see how the conclusions were written because I am quite repetitive when it comes to drawing a conclusion. I use the same "in conclusion" to end my essay which can get pretty tiring. However, I noticed that there were actually different styles of how they can be written!
For example, I learned to use "overall" and "to conclude" instead! There were also one or two essays who simply used quotes from someone famous to end their writing which I found new and interesting. This, however, required me to dig a little and read about quotes that fit the context of my essays.
I have to go now but enjoy! Goodbye!
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