Discussion:
1: When composing your essay, remember to
• Choose a topic from your personal knowledge and experience. Remember that you must utilize your first-hand experience to prove your authority to write on a topic. Purely generalized and/or factual information is not acceptable.
• Create in your own words, from your perspective or point of view, using the pronoun "I."
• Capture your reader's attention with an interesting introductory paragraph.
• Use specific examples from your personal experience.
• Use concrete or vivid words.
• Use complete sentences, varying your sentence length and structure.
• Use fully developed paragraphs, where each paragraph has only one main idea with enough supporting details to develop that idea clearly and logically.
• Create a total of 750 to 2,500 words on your topic. (If your essay is typed and double-spaced, your final draft should be between three and ten pages.
2: Write a composition using the topic listed below. Your composition should be three to five paragraphs long. It should contain an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. A) Analyze the best way to buy a car, mow a lawn, or prepare a meal.
3: Write a letter of complaint. Follow the rules for a business letter, and use the full-block style. The complaint may be about anything you wish (such as malfunctioning equipment, poor building maintenance, or disruptive noises from a nearby office). You can base your letter on a true experience, or you can make up all the details you need.