Section One - Graphing Response

Two weeks down!  Congratulations to everyone who turned their first e-mail response in on time and earned their 10 points.  Since this is your first response and its purpose was to give me a baseline on your writing skills, everyone earned 10 points for work turned in on time.  That being said, lets look at what we came up with.

First, lets look at the ideas you and your classmates came up with.  Below is a short Prezi presentation summarizing the ideas your classmates described in their e-mail responses.

So, what do we need to work on in terms of the structure of our essays?
1.  Answers that were only two or three sentences long - not enought to elaborate on your thoughts and include good detailed examples.
2.  Punctuation - please capitalize and punctuate your writing!  If AP reader struggle to follow your writing they won't read what you wrote.
3.  Examples - a good example needs to be more than a sentence.  You need to state your example and then elaborate on it by adding supporting details and explaination.
4.  Formatting - remember to organize your ideas.  Don't waste time with several sentences of an introduction.  Get right to the point and begin answering your question.
5.  Run-on ideas - It's ok to seperate your ideas into a couple of sentences rather than one long confusing sentence.  (Hint - re-read your answer before you submit it.  Better yet, have someone else read it)

What did we do well that we need to keep doing?
1.  Begin with a quick restating of the question and the beginning of your answer.
2.  Give MULTIPLE examples!  The more examples with details, the easier it is for your reader to understand your arguement.
3.  Ending your response with a re-cap of our initial arguement.  This quickly reminds your reader of what you are trying to explain to them.