Topic: Tense errors in English among the English second language
This week’s discussion has two parts:
Step 1: First, establish the position you are taking on your topic by sharing your claim (or thesis) statement. Keep in mind that your claim statement is the backbone of your argument, expressing the entire point of your essay.
Step 2: Next, share your most compelling piece of evidence by posting a full body paragraph. A good body paragraph explains, proves, and supports your overall argument.
Follow the following format:
Topic Sentence: Reveals the main point of the paragraph and identify your first argumentative point. Your topic sentence should be directly connected to your claim statement.
Support Point and Illustration: Introduce evidence. Reinforce your topic sentence with examples.
Explanation: Illustrate how your evidence is connected to your thesis statement.
Comments:
Needs to be a persuasive thesis, it’s a fact that immigrant students make tense errors for many reasons (native language, native culture, and more). So, what can you persuade us about that fact?
Is there something that those of us who are native speakers can do to help non-native speakers with tense errors? For the persuasive paper, you want to convince us either to do something to help with the problem that you laid out in the expository essay or to believe something new that we probably didn’t know about the problem.
For example, a strong thesis: “Educators can better educate students in the English language because currently, the educational system is failing English language learners.” Now that’s persuasive! Let’s run with that. What do you think?
Please note that you have been working on the same topic each week. I will attach the last paper on the topic that I have already summited so you can have an idea of the changes that need to be made based on the comments from the professor.
Also, the second assignment should have similarities to the discussion thesis.