Engl 101: Guidelines for the Response Paragraph
What: Your response paragraph is a clear, unified, brief paragraph expressing an opinion or insight you will choose based on your brainstorming assignment. It is important that it is your insight or opinion, not one borrowed from someone else.
How: This is your first, very short, formal writing assignment. That means you should take time developing your idea, revising and editing your writing, and formatting it correctly.
Why:
- Finding and expressing a personal response in a single well-formed paragraph is doing, on a small scale, what you will do next on a larger scale, when you write your first essay.
- This single paragraph allows you to become familiar with my expectations for all body paragraphs in future essays (not introductory or concluding paragraphs). It also allows me to give you feedback before the first essay is due, so if you are confused or misunderstand, you can fix it before the first big assignment.
The Question: Your topic sentence, and indeed, your whole paragraph, should answer this question.
The Checklist: Please review this checklist now. It tells you exactly how I would like your paragraph to be built. As you are writing and revising, remember to return and check several times, to make sure you have it right.
This response paragraph should
- be only one paragraph, indented correctly
- have a topic sentence that expresses an original insight or opinion about two texts. This means: beware of simply repeating the ideas of other students or the Boss.
- have a topic sentence that literally captures the main idea, helping establish paragraph unity
- have a topic sentence that is underlined
- be roughly 2/3rds of a page. This means: beware of any paragraph less than half a page or more than a page. The first makes a claim that is insufficiently supported or explained; the second may make a claim too unfocused to achieve impact.
- have two quotation sandwiches, including smooth introductions to each quote and good, complete explanations following them, tying each quote back to the topic sentence
- have transitions between sandwiches: (“therefore,” “also,” “however,” “first, ” “second,” and “too” are some transition words)
- have a mirroring sentence
- have perfect paragraph unity
- have correct grammar and punctuation
- have correct word choice. This means: the author has found the right word for their purpose
Sample Paragraph
If you look at Hannah Arendt’s explanation of what happened to Jews in Rumania, along with Anna Merlan’s reporting on the build-up to Pizzagate, you can see that spreading violence sometimes depends, not just on a few inhumane monsters, but on great numbers of “normal” people. Merlan writes, Pizzagate “‘was shared roughly 1.4 million times by more than a quarter of a million accounts…” (60). It seems likely that if these claims had not spread far and wide, through many many people, Edgar Maddison Welch, the man who showed up with an AR 15 at Comet Ping Pong, would never have gone. People reinforcing each other’s ideas created an explosion of false claims that Welch naïvely believed. Arendt too shows us we cannot simply blame some bad Nazis for all the deaths: “in Rumania even the SS were taken aback, and occasionally frightened, by the horrors of old-fashioned, spontaneous pogroms on a gigantic scale; they often intervened to save Jews from sheer butchery, so that the killing could be done in what, according to them, was a civilized way” (190). Here, violent anti-Semitism was well rooted in Rumania before the Nazis ever arrived. Unlike in Denmark, the local people and the Nazis shared deeply violent prejudices that together contributed to the deaths of some 425,000 (Arendt 192) Jews. In both cases, we can see the role the “average” person can play in large-scale violent catastrophe.
Engl 101: Guidelines for the Response Paragraph
What: Your response paragraph is a clear, unified, brief paragraph expressing an opinion or insight you will choose based on your brainstorming assignment. It is important that it is your insight or opinion, not one borrowed from someone else.
How: This is your first, very short, formal writing assignment. That means you should take time developing your idea, revising and editing your writing, and formatting it correctly.
Why:
- Finding and expressing a personal response in a single well-formed paragraph is doing, on a small scale, what you will do next on a larger scale, when you write your first essay.
- This single paragraph allows you to become familiar with my expectations for all body paragraphs in future essays (not introductory or concluding paragraphs). It also allows me to give you feedback before the first essay is due, so if you are confused or misunderstand, you can fix it before the first big assignment.
The Question: Your topic sentence, and indeed, your whole paragraph, should answer this question.
The Checklist: Please review this checklist now. It tells you exactly how I would like your paragraph to be built. As you are writing and revising, remember to return and check several times, to make sure you have it right.
This response paragraph should
- be only one paragraph, indented correctly
- have a topic sentence that expresses an original insight or opinion about two texts. This means: beware of simply repeating the ideas of other students or the Boss.
- have a topic sentence that literally captures the main idea, helping establish paragraph unity
- have a topic sentence that is underlined
- be roughly 2/3rds of a page. This means: beware of any paragraph less than half a page or more than a page. The first makes a claim that is insufficiently supported or explained; the second may make a claim too unfocused to achieve impact.
- have two quotation sandwiches, including smooth introductions to each quote and good, complete explanations following them, tying each quote back to the topic sentence
- have transitions between sandwiches: (“therefore,” “also,” “however,” “first, ” “second,” and “too” are some transition words)
- have a mirroring sentence
- have perfect paragraph unity
- have correct grammar and punctuation
- have correct word choice. This means: the author has found the right word for their purpose
Sample Paragraph
If you look at Hannah Arendt’s explanation of what happened to Jews in Rumania, along with Anna Merlan’s reporting on the build-up to Pizzagate, you can see that spreading violence sometimes depends, not just on a few inhumane monsters, but on great numbers of “normal” people. Merlan writes, Pizzagate “‘was shared roughly 1.4 million times by more than a quarter of a million accounts…” (60). It seems likely that if these claims had not spread far and wide, through many many people, Edgar Maddison Welch, the man who showed up with an AR 15 at Comet Ping Pong, would never have gone. People reinforcing each other’s ideas created an explosion of false claims that Welch naïvely believed. Arendt too shows us we cannot simply blame some bad Nazis for all the deaths: “in Rumania even the SS were taken aback, and occasionally frightened, by the horrors of old-fashioned, spontaneous pogroms on a gigantic scale; they often intervened to save Jews from sheer butchery, so that the killing could be done in what, according to them, was a civilized way” (190). Here, violent anti-Semitism was well rooted in Rumania before the Nazis ever arrived. Unlike in Denmark, the local people and the Nazis shared deeply violent prejudices that together contributed to the deaths of some 425,000 (Arendt 192) Jews. In both cases, we can see the role the “average” person can play in large-scale violent catastrophe.
Engl 101: Guidelines for the Response Paragraph
What: Your response paragraph is a clear, unified, brief paragraph expressing an opinion or insight you will choose based on your brainstorming assignment. It is important that it is your insight or opinion, not one borrowed from someone else.
How: This is your first, very short, formal writing assignment. That means you should take time developing your idea, revising and editing your writing, and formatting it correctly.
Why:
- Finding and expressing a personal response in a single well-formed paragraph is doing, on a small scale, what you will do next on a larger scale, when you write your first essay.
- This single paragraph allows you to become familiar with my expectations for all body paragraphs in future essays (not introductory or concluding paragraphs). It also allows me to give you feedback before the first essay is due, so if you are confused or misunderstand, you can fix it before the first big assignment.
The Question: Your topic sentence, and indeed, your whole paragraph, should answer this question.
The Checklist: Please review this checklist now. It tells you exactly how I would like your paragraph to be built. As you are writing and revising, remember to return and check several times, to make sure you have it right.
This response paragraph should
- be only one paragraph, indented correctly
- have a topic sentence that expresses an original insight or opinion about two texts. This means: beware of simply repeating the ideas of other students or the Boss.
- have a topic sentence that literally captures the main idea, helping establish paragraph unity
- have a topic sentence that is underlined
- be roughly 2/3rds of a page. This means: beware of any paragraph less than half a page or more than a page. The first makes a claim that is insufficiently supported or explained; the second may make a claim too unfocused to achieve impact.
- have two quotation sandwiches, including smooth introductions to each quote and good, complete explanations following them, tying each quote back to the topic sentence
- have transitions between sandwiches: (“therefore,” “also,” “however,” “first, ” “second,” and “too” are some transition words)
- have a mirroring sentence
- have perfect paragraph unity
- have correct grammar and punctuation
- have correct word choice. This means: the author has found the right word for their purpose
Sample Paragraph
If you look at Hannah Arendt’s explanation of what happened to Jews in Rumania, along with Anna Merlan’s reporting on the build-up to Pizzagate, you can see that spreading violence sometimes depends, not just on a few inhumane monsters, but on great numbers of “normal” people. Merlan writes, Pizzagate “‘was shared roughly 1.4 million times by more than a quarter of a million accounts…” (60). It seems likely that if these claims had not spread far and wide, through many many people, Edgar Maddison Welch, the man who showed up with an AR 15 at Comet Ping Pong, would never have gone. People reinforcing each other’s ideas created an explosion of false claims that Welch naïvely believed. Arendt too shows us we cannot simply blame some bad Nazis for all the deaths: “in Rumania even the SS were taken aback, and occasionally frightened, by the horrors of old-fashioned, spontaneous pogroms on a gigantic scale; they often intervened to save Jews from sheer butchery, so that the killing could be done in what, according to them, was a civilized way” (190). Here, violent anti-Semitism was well rooted in Rumania before the Nazis ever arrived. Unlike in Denmark, the local people and the Nazis shared deeply violent prejudices that together contributed to the deaths of some 425,000 (Arendt 192) Jews. In both cases, we can see the role the “average” person can play in large-scale violent catastrophe.
Engl 101: Guidelines for the Response Paragraph
What: Your response paragraph is a clear, unified, brief paragraph expressing an opinion or insight you will choose based on your brainstorming assignment. It is important that it is your insight or opinion, not one borrowed from someone else.
How: This is your first, very short, formal writing assignment. That means you should take time developing your idea, revising and editing your writing, and formatting it correctly.
Why:
- Finding and expressing a personal response in a single well-formed paragraph is doing, on a small scale, what you will do next on a larger scale, when you write your first essay.
- This single paragraph allows you to become familiar with my expectations for all body paragraphs in future essays (not introductory or concluding paragraphs). It also allows me to give you feedback before the first essay is due, so if you are confused or misunderstand, you can fix it before the first big assignment.
The Question: Your topic sentence, and indeed, your whole paragraph, should answer this question.
The Checklist: Please review this checklist now. It tells you exactly how I would like your paragraph to be built. As you are writing and revising, remember to return and check several times, to make sure you have it right.
This response paragraph should
- be only one paragraph, indented correctly
- have a topic sentence that expresses an original insight or opinion about two texts. This means: beware of simply repeating the ideas of other students or the Boss.
- have a topic sentence that literally captures the main idea, helping establish paragraph unity
- have a topic sentence that is underlined
- be roughly 2/3rds of a page. This means: beware of any paragraph less than half a page or more than a page. The first makes a claim that is insufficiently supported or explained; the second may make a claim too unfocused to achieve impact.
- have two quotation sandwiches, including smooth introductions to each quote and good, complete explanations following them, tying each quote back to the topic sentence
- have transitions between sandwiches: (“therefore,” “also,” “however,” “first, ” “second,” and “too” are some transition words)
- have a mirroring sentence
- have perfect paragraph unity
- have correct grammar and punctuation
- have correct word choice. This means: the author has found the right word for their purpose
Sample Paragraph
If you look at Hannah Arendt’s explanation of what happened to Jews in Rumania, along with Anna Merlan’s reporting on the build-up to Pizzagate, you can see that spreading violence sometimes depends, not just on a few inhumane monsters, but on great numbers of “normal” people. Merlan writes, Pizzagate “‘was shared roughly 1.4 million times by more than a quarter of a million accounts…” (60). It seems likely that if these claims had not spread far and wide, through many many people, Edgar Maddison Welch, the man who showed up with an AR 15 at Comet Ping Pong, would never have gone. People reinforcing each other’s ideas created an explosion of false claims that Welch naïvely believed. Arendt too shows us we cannot simply blame some bad Nazis for all the deaths: “in Rumania even the SS were taken aback, and occasionally frightened, by the horrors of old-fashioned, spontaneous pogroms on a gigantic scale; they often intervened to save Jews from sheer butchery, so that the killing could be done in what, according to them, was a civilized way” (190). Here, violent anti-Semitism was well rooted in Rumania before the Nazis ever arrived. Unlike in Denmark, the local people and the Nazis shared deeply violent prejudices that together contributed to the deaths of some 425,000 (Arendt 192) Jews. In both cases, we can see the role the “average” person can play in large-scale violent catastrophe.
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