Do Now: Assess the writing situation below using SOAPSTone. Choose one not understood, poorly understood, and/or misunderstood term. Write an essay to explain the term by offering examples of its meaning from personal experience or from reading. Here are some examples: Freedom, peace, abuse, bling, love, ghetto, trippin’, insurgency, crazy

Step One: Assess the Situation SOA PSTone

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? 1.Considering specific examples 2.Choosing appropriate examples 3.Arranging all the examples

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? 1.Considering Specific Examples Anecdotes-brief stories Facts-events or truths Stats-numerical data Ideas/hypothetical scenarios

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? An anecdote about the homeless: An anecdote about the homeless: While we talk…we watch an old man nearby who is standing flat and motionless against the wall, surrounded by two dozen bright red shopping carts. When I pass that spot some hours later he will still be there. Jonathan Kozol, “Untouchables”

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? A Fact about woman’s talents… I trained my hands to take shorthand at 120 words per minute and type 70 words per minute. My hands can make the best pie you have ever tasted. I can raise green beans and make raspberry jelly with my hands. Eva Payne, Handy

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? A Stat about overeating A Stat about overeating … The behemoth bagels we eat—puffed up to five or six ounces--account for almost half of the six to eleven daily bread servings recommended by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid. Michelle Stanley, All You Can Eat

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? A hypothetical scenario about a black man… A hypothetical scenario about a black man… I was indistinguishable from the muggers who occasionally seeped into the area from the surrounding ghetto. I gathered that being perceived as dangerous is a hazard in itself. I only needed to turn a corner into a dicey situation, or make an errant move after being pulled over by a policeman… » Brent Staples, “Just Walk on By”

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? 1. Humor can often make a bad situation more tolerable. 2.Having good study skills can improve a student’s grades. 3.American manufacturers can make their products safer. Anecdotes Facts Stats Ideas

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? 2. Choosing appropriate examples Relevant examples Various examples Representative examples Striking examples Accurate examples Appealing examples

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? 3. Arranging all the examples – climactic order or order of importance – least important to most powerful – transitions would include also, finally, for example, in addition, another, for instance, for one thing, furthermore, more important…

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? 1.Considering specific examples 2.Choosing appropriate examples 3.Arranging all the examples

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? Working with your group, select three appropriate examples to support the following generalization. Working with your group, select three appropriate examples to support the following generalization. “Most products do not live up to the claims of their advertisements.” “Most products do not live up to the claims of their advertisements.” List your examples from least important, to most powerful. List your examples from least important, to most powerful.

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? ExamplesExplanation Sham Wow Anecdote 1 Same type of example Incomplete explanation 2 Mostly appropriate examples Clear explanation 3 Very appropriate and compelling Developed explanation

Aim: How do you write using exemplification? Think about your term and what point you want to make about it (Topic/Term +Angle). Think about your term and what point you want to make about it (Topic/Term +Angle). Choose examples to show, explain, or prove what is important about your topic. Choose examples to show, explain, or prove what is important about your topic. Put the examples in order. Put the examples in order.