Review the Essay 1 Guidelines in the Assignments Overview page under the Start Here tab. Then, after reviewing feedback from your classmates in the Writer’s Workshop and revising and editing your wo

Review the Essay 1 Guidelines in the Assignments Overview page under the Start Here tab. Then, after reviewing feedback from your classmates in the Writer’s Workshop and revising and editing your work, submit the final version to the Dropbox by Wednesday. 

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Essay 1

Choose one of the assigned essays from The Bedford Reader in either Week 1 or Week 2 and tell your reader what you think is important in the essay. Don't just tell the reader what the essay says; tell the reader what you think it means. Your thesis will be a reaction and an analysis of the essay, explicating and analyzing the essay in the anthology for the reader.

Read the comments about writing from the author. Can you see how those comments help you see the writer's process and meaning? In your summary, be sure to answer the following questions:

• Who is your reader for this essay?
• Why would he/she be interested?
• What is the meaning the reader is expected to get from this essay?
• What is the most important message the writer is trying to convey?
• What does the author have to say about why he/she wrote this essay?
• What is your personal reaction after reading the essay? Why do you feel that way? Give examples.
• What do you want the reader to see about your perception of the essay you are analyzing?

Give examples from the essay to illustrate the points you are making. If you quote from the essay, put it in quotation marks and put an in-text citation after the quotation marks. No more than 20% of this essay should be quotations. The rest should be in your own words. Do not use sources other than from our Reader.

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Essay 1 Rubric

The minimum length for this assignment is 500 words.

Essay 1 Grading Criteria

CriteriaLevel 5Level 4Level 3Level 2Level 1

Introduction (20 points)Student's writing shows creative, individualistic expression of main point and background referenceReader and purpose clear.Work on developing clear understanding of your reader and purpose in your analysis.Reader and purpose for your essay may not be clearly evident. Needs development.Unclear reader and purpose for this essay.

Thesis Sentence (20 points)Strong, assertive, active voice thesis which contains a stance and key points.Clear, active voice thesis taking a stance on the topic.Thesis purpose understood. Concept is a debatable point.Thesis statement is a statement of fact, not a debatable point.Thesis not stated or understood.

Key Points and Examples for Textual Analysis (20 points)Key points given in the introduction and thesis are used to organize and develop the essay.   Abstractions are followed by specific, concrete examples from the text and from experience.Key points used to organize the essay.   Abstractions are not always explained in concrete terms.   Examples from text analyzed given.Key points are abstract and too general.   Needs more examples from textual analysis and experience.Key points are not easily understood or used as an organizational and development tool.   Few examples given from textual analysis.Organization of essay is not evident from introduction and thesis.   Specific examples missing or incomplete.

Analysis of Text (20 points)Understands author's stance and points.   Helps the reader understand the topic.   Gives specific examples from the text to develop points being made.Understands author's central meaning.  Give examples from the text to develop that meaning.Author's central meaning is presented somewhat vaguely and more textual examples are needed.Needs to develop the meaning of the original essay and provide more examples from the text.Original text meaning is not clearly presented.

Clear, Concise Language (10 points)Language usage is at an academic level, usage of third person voice, avoidance of slang and cliches.Active voice used most of the time.  Reader can easily understand the meaning of all sentences.Language clear and concise, but may need to avoid slang and cliches.   Work on making word choices exact and specific.Active voice predominant, but passive voice used too often.    Word choices or phrasings may not always be clear.Reader has to reread sentences and phrasings to understand passages.  Passive voice used too often.   Problem with sentence structure.Reader has to work too hard to try to discern the writer's meaning because of problems with sentence structure, phrasings, word choices or fragments.

Mechanics and Conventions (10 points)Essay is almost error free of problems with punctuation, grammar or conventions, such as spelling.    Reader will be able to read the essay without having to self-correct to understand meaning.Relatively free of errors.   Minor problems with one or two conventions which need to be worked on such as identifying and setting off introductory elements or spelling out numbers.Two or more major errors such as sentence fragments, fused sentences, or comma splices.Needs to have attention given to these errors so that they do not continue. May have misspelled words or wrong words.Too many minor and major errors. Errors interfere with the reader's ability to understand the writer.Error rate too high. Errors prevent the reader from respecting the writer and his/her meaning.