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Focus: A well-focused essay speaks about one main topic, called the thesis, and does not stray from it. Though you may write an essay of many paragraphs with many different arguments and pieces of evidence, everything in the essay should ultimately support your main idea. In a Lit essay, this thesis or thesis statement is part of your introduction, which provides relevant context about your text (both its purpose and crafting)

Development: An essay is well developed when every claim you make is supported by evidence, details, and reasons, (in Lit essays this is from the text - examples and quotations). A well-developed essay does not claim anything without offering evidence to show why or how it is included in relation to the topic/thesis. Topic sentences forward the development of your ideas.

Organization: Strong essays are well organized into paragraphs. Each paragraph focuses on a single idea—often this one idea can be conveyed in a single topic sentence—and displays a logical strategy for conveying its information. Each paragraph should be unified by intelligent use of explanations, transitions and key words, with of course, evidence. Similarly, a good writer uses transitions to link paragraphs into a sequence. This sequence of paragraphs should be logical and should serve to support the essay’s thesis. (NB your topic sentences should not be repeated in each paragraph, as your are showing a developed response.)

Audience Awareness: Good writers tailor their essay tone towards the needs of the audience, or reader. A writer with good audience awareness also does not make unfair assumptions about the reader’s gender, race, religion, class, sexuality, or value system. Who is your audience when you write your Lit essay? Answer: your teacher or your examiner. You can assume that they know your text.

Correctness: Strong essays display correct sentence grammar, punctuation, sentence unity, agreement, syntax, and spelling. For Lit essays your register needs to be formal and non-judgemental.

Research and Citations: When it’s called for, you should know how to find and correctly cite outside information to support your arguments. In Lit essays most if not all of your citations will come from the focus text. Ensure you are consistent (MLA).

These all form the focus for your Lit assessment criteria descriptors.

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Read the following essay and consider your responses to the following questions:

Why is this considered a well structured essay?

1. How important is the introduction? Thesis?

2. How does the writer make points and organise ideas throughout the essay? How are ideas and examples grouped? Can you easily identify main threads of argument?

3. What is telling about the conclusion? How are we here - look at the introduction.

4. What noticeable differences are there in style with this essay compared to a Lit essay ( different focus understood)?

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The Las Vegas budget hotel Circus Circus and the luxurious hotel Bellagio each holds about the same number of people. But the Bellagio gets about three times as many check-ins on Facebook.

The search for online status takes some peculiar twists. Facebook works with an outside company to gather data on the cars people actually own. Facebook also has data on the cars people associate with by posting about them or by liking them.

Owners of luxury cars like BMWs and Mercedeses are about two and a half times as likely to announce their affiliation on Facebook as are owners of ordinary makes and models.

In the United States, the desire to show off and exaggerate wealth is universal. Caucasians, Asian-Americans, African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans are all two to three times as likely to associate on Facebook with a luxury car they own than with a non-luxury car they own.

But different people in different places can have different notions of what is cool and what is embarrassing. Take musical taste. According to 2014 data from Spotify Insights on what people actually listen to, men and women have similar tastes; 29 of the 40 musicians women listened to most frequently were also the artists most frequently listened to by men.

On Facebook, though, men seem to underplay their interest in artists considered more feminine. For example, on Spotify, Katy Perry was the 10th most listened to artist among men, beating Bob Marley, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and Wiz Khalifa. But those other artists all have more male likes on Facebook.

The pressure to look a certain way on social media can do much more than distort our image of the musicians other people actually listen to.

Sufferers of various illnesses are increasingly using social media to connect with others and to raise awareness about their diseases. But if a condition is considered embarrassing, people are less likely to publicly associate themselves with it.

Irritable bowel syndrome and migraines are similarly prevalent, each affecting around 10 percent of the American population. But migraine sufferers have built Facebook awareness and support groups two and a half times larger than I.B.S. sufferers have.

None of this behavior is all that new, although the form it takes is. Friends have always showed off to friends. People have always struggled to remind themselves that other people don't have it as easy as they claim.

Think of the aphorism quoted by members of Alcoholics Anonymous: "Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides." Of course, this advice is difficult to follow. We never see other people's insides.

I have actually spent the past five years peeking into people's insides. I have been studying aggregate Google search data. Alone with a screen and anonymous, people tend to tell Google things they don't reveal to social media; they even tell Google things they don't tell to anybody else. Google offers digital truth serum. The words we type there are more honest than the pictures we present on Facebook or Instagram.

Sometimes the contrasts in different data sources are amusing. Consider how wives speak about their husbands.

On social media, the top descriptors to complete the phrase "My husband is ..." are "the best," "my best friend," "amazing," "the greatest" and "so cute." On Google, one of the top five ways to complete that phrase is also "amazing." So that checks out. The other four: "a jerk," "annoying," "gay" and "mean."

While spending five years staring at a computer screen learning about some of human beings' strangest and darkest thoughts may not strike most people as a good time, I have found the honest data surprisingly comforting. I have consistently felt less alone in my insecurities, anxieties, struggles and desires.

Once you've looked at enough aggregate search data, it's hard to take the curated selves we see on social media too seriously. Or, as I like to sum up what Google data has taught me: We're all a mess.

Now, you may not be a data scientist. You may not know how to code in R or calculate a confidence interval. But you can still take advantage of big data and digital truth serum to put an end to envy - or at least take some of the bite out of it.

Any time you are feeling down about your life after lurking on Facebook, go to Google and start typing stuff into the search box. Google's autocomplete will tell you the searches other people are making. Type in "I always ..." and you may see the suggestion, based on other people's searches, "I always feel tired" or "I always have diarrhea." This can offer a stark contrast to social media, where everybody "always" seems to be on a Caribbean vacation.

As our lives increasingly move online, I propose a new self-help mantra for the 21st century, courtesy of big data: Don't compare your Google searches with other people's Facebook posts.

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Opinion | Don't Let Facebook Make You Miserable

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The Las Vegas budget hotel Circus Circus and the luxurious hotel Bellagio each holds about the same number of people. But the Bellagio gets about three times as many check-ins on Facebook. The search for online status takes some peculiar twists. Facebook works with an outside company to gather data on the cars people actually own.

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Read the start to this essay and consider elements of effective essay writing here. Then read the rest of the essay. Choose another paragraph to analyse and place in box 4 with comments. Discuss your considerations with your partner. When finished look at examiner’s feedback and marks on PDF.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_s4U7j4CEsryBC6CuK2rxUEZzuR0cHRTcftoTqIqJ7s/edit

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Your job is to:

Focus on what is required and ensure that you understand the specifics of the essay task; that is, carefully read the relevant OLP unit and respond accordingly.

Decide and collaborate on a suitable topic/question.

Research the text in relation to this topic.

Fully complete planning document with detailed considerations of the  topic.

Ensure that you fully appreciate the essay style and structure required for this task.

Fully discuss your topic as well as approaches to structuring and evidencing your essay with your teacher.

Complete first and final draft with detailed considerations about the text and care for your essay presentation

Listen, note and respond to ONCE only specific feedback about your essay (as per iB guidelines) provided from your teacher.

Do your best with your final essay and submit on time.

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Your teacher’s job is to:

Ensure that you have the necessary IB guidelines to complete all the requirements of a Lit Written Assignment.

Provide essential understanding of the text via classroom and homework activities.

Guide your topic selection and the refinement of your question; that is, help you form a focus that is workable and one that will allow you to show your strengths in relation to the essay assessment criteria.

Help you develop research skills so that you can find relevant evidence from your focus text.

Provide guidelines about writing effective essays.

Discuss best planning practices with you and encourage you to be very thorough with your research and thinking so that you present your best essay draft submission.

Provide detailed feedback ONCE on your first and final draft - N.B., according to IB guidelines there should be no written feedback from your teacher on your actual final essay draft. So feedback will mostly likely be in the form of discussion and your note-taking.

Collect your Lit WA submission.

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Proposal and planning for your Lit Wit essay for your final Written Assignment:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4SMXp5GOow02oPVt9ke4YSBnyDblz8g6WmZgMt_g_M/edit

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qzLMpk07JunE-Wym1jaINT2yf_dYCFr2h8HD9C9L7Kc/edit

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Writing a comparative poetry essay for Part 1  - simple chart

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Writing a comparative poetry essay for Part 1  - simple chart

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Part 1 essay