State your thesis and support it with details.
3. Revising
Improve your work by adding, rearranging, and removing details.
4. Editing
Check for style and accuracy and prepare a final copy.
Reflection
Maybe the students can’t follow step-by-step directions for every example, but they have to follow the steps. It must be very important
to understand that all steps will guide us how to practice our writing.
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Module 7 Students Practice Expository Writing
Induction
Lecturer   gives   some   examples   of   narrative   writing   to   the   students. Students read individually for about ten minutes. After this activity, the
students discuss the examples in order to understand the examples. Lecturer asks to the student about 1 what is the title of the writing,
2 what kinds forms of writing, 3 how many paragraph in the text of writing, 4 find out the topic sentence in every paragraph, etc.
Example
Women in the Wild
In   the   first   half   of   the   twentieth   century,   most   people   thought   that great apes were ferocious beasts like King Kong. By the middle of the
century,   though,   a   young   Englishwoman   named   Jane   Goodall   and   a young American named Dian Fossey began to change people’s minds.
By going to live with great apes, Goodall and Fossey taught the world about these gentle giants. Goodall and Fossey began their careers by
following their childhood dreams of working with animals in Africa. In her late twenties, Goodall finally saved up enough money to travel to
Cape   Town,   South   Africa,   where   she   met   the   famous   paleontologist Louis Leakey. He hired her as his secretary and by 1960 convinced her
to study chimpanzees in the wild. Leakey funded Goodall’s expedition to   Tanzania,   and   she   took   her   mother   with   her.   In   a   speech   that
Goodall gave in 2002, she said, “I had a wonderful, supportive mother. She encouraged me to follow my ridiculous dream to go to Africa and
live with animals “Jane”. In 1963, Fossey first met Leakey, but she had a harder time impressing him. After paying 14 shillings to look
around his dig site, she slipped down a rock slope, landed on his fossil find,  sprained  her ankle,  and   because of  the  pain,  threw  up  on  the
specimen “Dian”. Still, by 1966, Leakey had funded an expedition for Fossey to study mountain gorillas in the Congo and Rwanda.
Over   the   next   two   decades,   Goodall   and   Fossey   became   world- renowned   primatologists,   or   ape   researchers.   Since   neither   woman
was   a   trained   scientist,   they   shared   a   unique   approach   to   their research. Instead of numbering the apes like test subjects, the women
named   them   and   developed   close   relationships   with   them.   Goodall discovered that chimpanzees live in extended tribal groups and have
individual  personalities, emotions, and awareness. Perhaps her most startling   discovery,   though,   was   that   chimpanzees   make   tools,
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stripping leaves off twigs and using the twigs to “fish” termites from their mounds Shadow. For her part, Fossey learned that gorillas live
in small family groups and show compassion even to non-gorillas. Once, when Fossey crouched alone and depressed
in   the   woods,   a   gorilla   named   Digit   put   his   arm   around   her   and comforted her Gorillas. Over the years, both women discovered that
great-ape populations are dwindling because of poaching and habitat loss.   At   Leakey’s   suggestion,   Goodall   and   Fossey   each   went   to
Cambridge to earn PhD’s, which helped them fight for the survival of great apes.
Later in their careers, the two women worked hard to save the great apes.   Goodall   wrote   papers   and   books,   traveled   and   lectured,   and
created   foundations   to   save   chimpanzees   and   other   animals.   As   a result, the United Nations named her a “Messenger of Peace,” and she
was   the   only   non-Tanzanian   to   receive   the   Medal   of   Tanzania “Biography”.   Fossey   also   did   these   things,   but   when   the   gorilla
populations she studied were attacked, she declared a public war on poachers. She put a bounty on any poachers and organized patrols to
protect gorillas. In 1985, her war ended when she was murdered in her cabin, most likely by a poacher “Dian”.
Though Goodall and Fossey were born ten thousand miles apart, each woman followed her dream of going to Africa. They worked with Louis
Leakey, wrote and lectured, and set up foundations to save the creatures they loved. Most
of   all,   these   two   conservationists   shared   a   message   that   Fossey expressed in her final journal entry: “When you realize the value of all
life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate on the preservation of the future” “Dian”.
Students write a narrative writing
Form of writing Title
Classmates who gives respond
Draft
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Reflection
This is the end our activities of narrative writing practice. This is one of   many   forms   of   writing.   Please   practice   and   practice,   again   and
again, the students will study and master many of the forms of writing.
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Module 8 Middle-Semester Examination
1. Name five forms of writing and explain that every form of writing
is always in relation with others 2.
Please write your own biography at least in five paragraphs 3.
Please write informative-essay on the celebration of Happy New Year in your country
4. There are many problems faced in our life. There is no problem
without solving. Please write problem-solution essay at least in three paragraphs
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Module 9 Persuasive Writing
Induction
We are entering the second-half of this semester. In this module, we are going to practice with three example of persuasive writing: 1
opinion essay, 2 problem-solution essay, and 3 pro-con essay.
Opinion essay
An opinion essay gives the writers opinion, a view or belief that cant be proven as a fact. This section includes step-by-step directions to
help guide your students as they create an opinion essay.
This sample opinion essay will help students understand the form. You can print out these pages to share them with your students or
direct them to the Opinion Essay section on the student site.
1. Prewriting