Course Recap for Monday, February 9, 2015

General Note: Be sure to keep track of the various text structures we are studying.  Make sure you understand their purposes.  You will be tested on this information later.

Illustration
Today, we checked out the text structure illustration.  In an illustrative paragraph, your goal is to support your topic sentence by providing the reader with specific examples that illustrate your point. This is similar to description except in this type of paragraph you can have multiple subjects.  The topic of a descriptive paragraph is usually very specific, a specific person, place, or object.  Illustrative paragraphs allows your topic to be more general.  It also allows you to explain abstract ideas and concepts instead of specific nouns.

Homework

• Aplia Assignment: Chapter 9 Definition-Reading and Graded Assignment (Due Wednesday)
• Revision of your Illustration Paragraph on Commercials via Google Docs (Due Wednesday)
• Thursday Blog Post Prompt: Who is your best friend?  Why?  How are you two alike? How are you different?