The last of those dang essays are still trickling in, a week and a half late. Today I spent the beginning of lunch working with a couple of recalcitrant writers. Our task was to compose a single body paragraph for their arguments, one that they could then use as a model for the rest of their essay. I dictated a topic sentence and suggested some transition phrases to help them organize the evidence and reasoning they already had. Within 10 minutes both students were on their way to a passable draft.
"I just had no idea essay writing was so easy!" one of them exclaimed as he headed to lunch.
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