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Engl 1113 Freshman Composition I Essay 4 (Process Analysis)

Length: 500 words (please provide a final word count)
Number of Paragraphs: at least 5 (introduction, 3 body paragraphs, conclusion

Explain how something should be done. Choose from your personal experiences, talents, or interests or choose from ideas, concepts, theories, or strategies you are learning in other courses. Your purpose is to describe something step-by step as clearly as possible for your audience by analyzing, showing relationships, and demonstrating with examples, facts, data, warnings, and reasons. Remember to provide a clear focus and to state a thesis. No recipes, please.

Please submit multiple copies of the rough draft: one for you, one for me, and one for each member of your group. Submit only one copy of the final draft to me.

All essays must be typed (double-spaced) on standard, letter-size paper.

Please follow the formatting example on p. 776 in McWhorter.

Essays will be graded on the 1-2-3 scale. For information on grading criteria, please refer to the course syllabus.

Late work will be handled according to the rules in the syllabus. Remember that you may hand in only one late essay (including revisions).

The following are unacceptable and will result in a rejection of the essay and a grade of zero (0):

1. Pages which are stained, folded, torn, crumpled, or otherwise damaged.

2. Paper sizes other than letter size.

3. Handwritten assignments

SUGGESTED TOPICS
  • how to stop smoking
  • how to train a pet
  • how to teach a child some activity
  • how to eliminate garden pests
  • how to lose weight
  • how to improve a skill in a sport
  • how a relationship grew and then died
  • how cheese is made
  • how to begin a collection
  • how to buy a computer
  • how a popular fad originated or grew
  • how to meet the person of your dreams
  • how a company sells a product
  • how a piece of equipment or a machine works
  • how to cure a cold
  • how to cure a hangover
  • how to solve important life problems
  • how to select a new/used car
  • how to choose a roommate
  • how to get rid of annoying relatives
  • how to succeed in a job interview
  • how to repair some small item
  • how to plan a party
  • how to register for classes
  • how to study for a test
  • how to paint your fingernails
  • how to select an apartment
  • how to improve "College Cornerstone"
  • how to dye your hair
  • how to break up with someone
  • how to get away with speeding
  • how to get rid of a bad habit
  • how to complain in a restaurant


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