Hey there, everyone; Happy Easter!  This week, let's run through the most important steps to writing an essay.  Those of you with it mostly done can take the time to check on a few things before passing it in.  For those just putting your essay together, the most important aspect is your thesis statement.  This is the sentence that states what it is that you are proving with the essay, and allows all the other information to flow well as you prove the statement.  Below, I will place a couple of link to the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University.  Skim it over to see if there are ways to improve your existing thesis statement, or for tips to develop one now.

 

Your assignment for this week will be to send in the best thesis statement you can come up with (send it in via the class "Team" in Microsoft Online, or just email it to me at jean.macdonald2@nbed.nb.ca), then organize your notes into the best way to prove that thesis.