1.  Tips to identifying, prewriting, drafting, and polishing your proficiency essay

2.  We’ve already practiced this strategy with our expository essay.  How do we break down this prompt?  “In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.”

3.  In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.”

4.  Why is “In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” a fluffy part?

5.  You never rewrite the example.  You may refer to it if necessary.  Examples are always “fluffy” because they are usually not used in what the testers want you to write about.  What do the testers want you to write about? To do so would spell sudden death to your proficiency dreams

6.  In the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, French writer Anatole France writes: “To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Why might one argue that imagination is more valuable than facts? Using an example from life, history, science, film, or a personal experience, write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.”

9.  Imagination  New ideas  Dreams come to life  Examples of things that were once dreams and now reality-flight, going to the moon, etc.  Facts  Facts are static  Facts do not inspire accomplishment  Facts are useful for research, but they do not change.

10.  You use your T-Chart answers to help support your thesis statement.  What are you asked to write about?  Write an essay analyzing the worth of imagination.  Now, using the imagination side of your T-Chart formulate a compound-complex sentence that covers the bases for this question. This will be the basis of your essay.

11.  You can expand on your ideas by using a mind- map.  Mind-maps expand on one idea from your T-Chart.  Mind-maps help the writer form more complicated sentences test scorers look for when reading essays.  How to you set up a Mind-Map?