2/12/18

Today class was introduced with an essay sample from a senior's paper.  We had to go over it in our group and figure out whether the essay is descriptive or argumentative.  Also how well the student established clear/specific topic sentence, integrate evidence, and analyze evidence.  Along with what advice what advice would we would give to this student for his next draft.

After reading the draft we realized that the draft was descriptive because there is no opinion from the writer, along with using words like "described".  The topic sentence was strong as it introduced credible people, and breaks down the topic into a smaller topic.  We also found that there is a lot of scholarly evidence in the beginning with an immediate analysis.  However towards the end of the second paragraph there is a lot of evidence with lack of analyses.

We then for the rest of class moved on to work on our own essays, and they are going to be due Tuesday night.  My paper is on the documentary Blackfish which is about killer whales at Sea World.  So I have been doing research about animals in captivity, reasons whales shouldn't be kept captive, and even about Zoos not just Aquariums.  We will also have class tomorrow to continue working on this.