We have read and discussed Jeffrey J. Selingo’s “Why Can’t College Graduates Write Coherent Prose,” published in the Washington Post on August 11, 2017. During your midterm exam, you will write an essay that responds to this reading using your own experience as a writer this semester and in high school.Step 1: Engage with article. Begin by noticing where you find yourself agreeing with the descriptions in the article and where you find yourself disagreeing based on what you’ve observed and experienced. Compare your experience to the article’s ideas.Step 2: Enter the conversation by deciding on a thesis. Step 3: Think of detailed, specific evidence from your own experience or observation of the world to support your thesis. Do not do additional research.Step 4: Adjust thesis based on evidence and write an outline (no sentences) on index card.Step 5: Write the exam in class. Be sure to adequately explain your evidence. Include a works cited entry at the end of your essay.Checklist for your examContent—Does my essayHave a controlling thesis that is clear, focused, and argumentative? It should include both the ideas of the article and your response to those ideas. Develop the thesis fully with specific, relevant, and fully explained details and examples from observation and first- or second-hand experience?Use textual support from the article sparingly so that the emphasis is on my own ideas? Quotations must be integrated, and any paraphrasing must use your own words. Use citations and/or attributive tags when you cite the article. Organization—Does my essay:Have an introduction and conclusion that frame the main argument. Include a summary that gives a brief overview of the article’s main ideasContain paragraphs with topic sentences and transitions that connect ideas Style—Does my essay:Contain writing that is clean stylistically with strong verbs and concise and clear sentences? Sentences should be combined as needed to create sentence variety and clarify logical connections.