ENGLISH 105 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTIONS FOR ESSAY 1 STEP ONE: SET UP YOUR ESSAY FORMAT • 1) First open Microsoft Word. Go to the “Office” button, top left corner of the screen. Pull down to “Save As.” Save this document as [LastName]Essay1. (Change that part in red to your actual last name!) • 2) You should be in the “Home” tab. Click on the “Paragraph” down arrow (third one over—it goes: Clipboard, Font, Paragraph). Change the Spacing to Double. Click in the little box beside “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style.” • 3) Click on Insert. Click on Header, choosing the first option, called “Blank.” Now you are “in” the Header. Click the “Right Justify” button.” Click again on Insert. Click on Page Number. Choose “Current position.” Click just to the left of the new page number, and type your last name. You are done with the Header. To return to the main document, either click on the “Close Header” button (big red X), or just double-click anywhere in the main document (under the Header). • 4) Type your Heading. See the “Paper Specs” handout in the Writing Stuff folder. • 5) Type your title, and center it. You can bold it if you want. You can simply call this paper “Skepticism vs. Doubt,” or “The Difference between Rational and Rationalization,” or anything else you want. HOW TO WRITE YOUR INTRODUCTION • 1st sentence: Write a general sentence about the first term of the pair. It can be anything, such as: Most people would agree that feeling humility is complicated because it can feel bad, but it can be a good thing, too, because it leads us to be better people. • 2nd sentence: Write a general sentence about the second term in your pair. It can be anything, such as: However, humiliation, on the other hand, is something all people recognize immediately as a painful experience. INTRODUCTION, CONT. • 3rd sentence: Introduce your intent to distinguish between these two terms in your essay, like this: Although some people may use these terms interchangeably, as if they were exact synonyms, I believe there is an important difference between them. • 4th sentence: Say something about your main source: how you reacted to it, what you learned from it, whatever. This can be anything, like this: A professional business consultant named Leland Beaumont, in a blog entry called “Humility vs. Humiliation: No One Likes Being Treated Like Dirt,” explains the difference between the two terms in clear, understandable terms. INTRO: ADD YOUR THESIS • 5th sentence: This will be your thesis. In this sentence, you will tie both parts of your essay together. You also announce your intention in this sentence. So it will be like this: In this essay, I will argue that humility is an important part of our growth as compassionate human beings, while humiliation only causes pain and anguish and should never be intentionally inflicted on another person. • This will be the LAST SENTENCE in your introductory paragraph. Hit the “Enter” key, then hit the Tab key on your keyboard. FIRST BODY PARAGRAPH • The first thing you have to do in this paragraph is identify your first term. It can look like this: Humility is something that most people don’t really understand. They confuse it often with those bad feelings caused by humiliation, or they reject the necessity of learning it because it makes them uncomfortable. • Then, look at the handout in the Writing Stuff folder (on Blackboard, Essay Assignments button) called “Signal Phrases.” Using only the author’s last name (if it is a “signed” article, meaning that a specific person is named as the author; if there isn’t one, use the role of editor) from here on out, you’ll use his or her last name and one of the verbs found on that handout to introduce your quoted passage. Like this: • As Phillips explains it, • or • According to Bailey, FIRST BODY ¶, CONT. • Then, you hit “Enter” on your keyboard to move your cursor down to the next line. Find the button on your tool bar at the top of your document that, when you move your cursor over it, it says, “Increase Indent” (make sure you are on the Home tab). Click on that button twice. • Type your passage. Be very careful to get it exactly right (don’t leave out any words or skip any lines!). Your passage should be about 5-6 lines on the page when you are done. Hit the Space bar twice. Put the page number in parentheses. Hit Enter. • Go back up to the toolbar and find the button that says “Decrease Indent” (it should look just like the other button, but show the opposite direction.) Click on that button twice. Your cursor should now be back on the left margin. ADD YOUR QUOTATION ANALYSIS • First: SUMMARIZE what the passage says: Put it in your own words. • Second: Identify what THREE words from that passage that you think are the most important to the overall meaning of the passage. • Make it simple: Three key words from this passage are: “______,” “________,” and “_________.” (Notice that they are in quotation marks, and the commas and end-period go INSIDE the quotation marks!) • For each word: Say what it means, what it suggests, and why it is important to the passage. CLOSE READING, CONT. • All of this explained clearly in the handout “Steps for Analysis” in the Writing Stuff folder. Follow those directions carefully. • You can also look at the handout called, “Directly Engaging the Quoted Passage” for more information about how to do this. RELATE TO THESIS • LAST: Answer the following questions: • • • • Why did you choose this passage? Why is it important to the overall article? Why did it jump out at you? What does it make you think about your first term? In other words, how does this relate to your thesis? Does it support it or challenge it? Explain. SECOND BODY ¶ • In this part of your paper, you will do essentially the same thing you did in the first body paragraph, but with the other term of your pair. • First, write a sentence that introduces the topic of this paragraph: your second term from the pair. Such as: Humiliation is usually something that one person intentionally causes another person to feel, usually out of spite or anger. SECOND BODY ¶, CONT. • Introduce your Internet source for your second term, just as you did for your first term. Using a signal phrase, introduce your interesting passage from that source. • Be sure you indent it. Be careful to get it exactly right, not leaving out any words, punctuation marks, or other important details. Be sure you end it with a page number. See the Punctuating Quotations handout in the Writing Stuff folder for help with this. ADD SECOND CLOSE READING • First sentence after the quote: (Do not indent!) Summarize your passage. Put it in your own words. What does your author or editor say in this passage? • Identify THREE words from that passage that you think are the most important to the overall meaning of the passage. • What does each word mean? • What does it suggest? • Why is it important to the overall meaning of the passage? • Be sure all three questions are answered for each key word! RELATE TO THESIS • Answer the following questions: Why did you choose this passage? Why is it important to the overall article? Why did it jump out at you? What does it makes you think about your second term? • In other words, how does this relate to your thesis? Does it support it or challenge it? Explain. • • • • WRITING YOUR CONCLUSION • 1st -3rd sentences: Go back to your introduction and re-read what you said before about your pair of terms. • Do you still think this is true? If not, how has the process of writing this paper changed what you said earlier? • If your original idea still holds, how has examining the Internet article reinforced your original belief? FINAL SENTENCE(S) • Final 1-2 sentence(s): • What do you want others to understand about how you define these terms? • Why is this an important debate, one that is something everyone should think about and decide for themselves? FINAL STEPS 1)Add your Works Cited. • See the Sample Works Cited in the Assignment folder (Essay Assignments button). Copy what’s there and paste it into your paper on the last page. • Be sure you delete the ones you did not use in your essay. • Do not make this any harder than it has to be. To be sure that the format is correct, just COPY AND PASTE. FINAL STEPS, CONT. 2) Add the Word Count. To do this: • In MS Word 93-03: Find the Tools tab on your toolbar. Pull down to Word Count. Write the number down somewhere on scratch paper. • In MS Word 2007-2013: Look in the bottom-left corner of your computer screen. Write the number down somewhere on scratch paper. • Once you have the final Word Count, put your cursor on the line below the last line of the essay, but before the Works Cited. Click on Right Justify. Type: Word Count and the number. Save. SHAPE OF YOUR ESSAY • Once you’ve got it all formatted and written, your essay should be “shaped” like this: Introduction ends with thesis statement SHAPE OF YOUR ESSAY, CONT. 1st body paragraph: 1) defines first term; and 2) analyzes 1st passage/key words; and 3) answers this question: How does this example support your thesis? 2nd Body paragraph: 1) defines second term; and 2) analyzes 2nd passage/key words; and 3) explains how this example supports your thesis. SHAPE OF YOUR ESSAY, CONT. Conclusion: What do you want your reader(s) to learn about your term or expression that would not otherwise have thought of themselves? LAST PAGE Works Cited Bailey, Leisa A. “The Difference Between Confidence and Arrogance.” March 9, 2012. MariettaPsychologist.blogspot.com. February 5, 2014. Beaumont, Leland R. “Humiliation: No one likes being treated like dirt.” N.d. EmotionalCompetency.com. February 5, 2014. Brown, Cody. “The Difference Between Confidence and Arrogance is Empathy.” December 16, 2013. Medium.com/LeadershipJournal. February 5, 2014. Halder, Subra. “What is the Difference Between Intelligence and Wisdom?” N.d. WikiAnswers.com. September 27, 2013. lanceaksh. “Difference Between Knowledge and Wisdom.” September 18, 2009. DifferenceBetween.net. February 5, 2014. Manisha. “Difference Between Ignorance and Stupidity.” January 4, 2010. DifferenceBetween.net. February 5, 2014. A minimum of 4 double spaced pages with one inch margins, or 750 words, minimum. 12 point Times New Roman font. MLA format (no title page, 4 line heading upper left of first page, last name/page #in upper right of each page). See the Paper Specs handout in the Writing Stuff folder.
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