{"id":43,"date":"2020-06-11T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/part\/the-essay\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T21:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:12:02","slug":"the-essay","status":"publish","type":"part","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/part\/the-essay\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 5: The Essay","rendered":"Chapter 5: The Essay"},"content":{"raw":"\n<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n \t<li>Combine your knowledge of paragraphs and summary in a longer format.<\/li>\n \t<li>Write the parts of an essay: the introduction, the body, and the conclusion.<\/li>\n \t<li>Practise writing either a descriptive, narrative, expository, or persuasive essay.<\/li>\n \t<li>Practise five ways to hook the reader with your first sentence.<\/li>\n \t<li>Back up your claim with relevant evidence.<\/li>\n \t<li>Differentiate evidence from experience and evidence from a source.<\/li>\n \t<li>Signal your point of view in your first sentence so it is clear to the reader.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNow that you have practised writing different types of paragraphs\u2014including descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive\u2014as well as learning how to summarize, you\u2019re ready to put your skills to work in a longer piece of writing: the essay.\n\nEssays require you to use many of the skills you learned, such as argument, exposition, summary, \u201chooking\u201d the reader, and so forth, in a more extended format. Ideally, they capture the reader\u2019s attention and keep it throughout by expressing what you want to say in a lively and forthright manner, as well as including evidence for your claim. You also explain the relevance of your evidence and clearly indicate where it comes from.\n","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>Combine your knowledge of paragraphs and summary in a longer format.<\/li>\n<li>Write the parts of an essay: the introduction, the body, and the conclusion.<\/li>\n<li>Practise writing either a descriptive, narrative, expository, or persuasive essay.<\/li>\n<li>Practise five ways to hook the reader with your first sentence.<\/li>\n<li>Back up your claim with relevant evidence.<\/li>\n<li>Differentiate evidence from experience and evidence from a source.<\/li>\n<li>Signal your point of view in your first sentence so it is clear to the reader.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now that you have practised writing different types of paragraphs\u2014including descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive\u2014as well as learning how to summarize, you\u2019re ready to put your skills to work in a longer piece of writing: the essay.<\/p>\n<p>Essays require you to use many of the skills you learned, such as argument, exposition, summary, \u201chooking\u201d the reader, and so forth, in a more extended format. Ideally, they capture the reader\u2019s attention and keep it throughout by expressing what you want to say in a lively and forthright manner, as well as including evidence for your claim. You also explain the relevance of your evidence and clearly indicate where it comes from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_part_invisible":false,"pb_part_invisible_string":""},"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-43","part","type-part","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/part"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/buildingblocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}