essay

06Jan 2022 by

For this essay, you must do the following:

Use prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing to write a formal, college-level essay.
Distinguish among different patterns of development.
Apply an appropriate pattern of development to a specific purpose and audience.
Write an effective thesis statement.
Develop paragraphs using topic sentences, adequate detail, supporting evidence, and transitions.
Apply the conventions of standard written American English to produce a correct, well-written essay.

Topic
Your purpose is to illustrate the process you use to manage your time to successfully balance your home, work, and school responsibilities. You should identify and describe the steps youve taken and to illustrate to your readers how these steps have worked for you.
Youll be writing in the first-person point of view because this is your process. The goal is to show your readers how you manage your time, not to instruct them on how to do it. Dont use second person or use you to address your readers. While the audience is other Penn Foster students, focus on explaining how you manage your time.
Writing Your Essay
In your prewriting, you focused on whats happening in your life. For your formal essay, youll revise and reorganize your prewriting to create an essay that shows other students how you manage your time when taking online courses, maintaining a job, and focusing on family responsibilities.
Youll use your prewriting as your foundation, but it will require major reorganization and revision to include the following:

An introductory paragraph with a thesis statement that addresses the purpose of the essay
Three to four body paragraphs that each begin with a topic sentence that identifies a step, tool, or technique you included in your second prewriting paragraph. Each body paragraph should then build on that step, tool, or technique with the narration and description from your first prewriting paragraph. Each body paragraph should fully describe how you implemented the step and the benefits of this step. These steps should be discussed in the same order theyre mentioned in the thesis statement.
A conclusion that reinforces the thesis statement and purpose of the essay.