Personal Experience
This essay is an evaluative essay and will focus on your response to an authors thesis and key points as you express your own views, experiences, and judgments. You will reread your chosen article closely, include quotations, and analyze each quotation. Overall, your essay should both analyze and evaluate the article: What are the authors main points? Do you agree or disagree with them? You will be listening to, reflecting on and evaluating the writers many points and then inserting your own examples that parallel, extend, or counter the authors perspective. Now consider the different aspects of this idea you want to explain, refute, and/or support. (You may organize your body paragraphs by the different points presented by varied personal examples. You may also identify quotes in your chosen piece that you wish to add to or refute one by one and organize the body paragraphs this way. Be sure each body paragraph is covering something different that connects to the thesis.) tHESIS Identify topic sentence or main subject for Paragraph #1, choose quotes and personal experience to support it. Use your MEAL (MEEAL or MEAEAEL) structure. You should have at least two pieces of evidence per body paragraph, at least one of which should be a quote from your chosen article. Identify topic sentence or main subject for Paragraph #2, choose quotes and personal experience to support it. Use your MEAL (MEEAL or MEAEAEL) structure. You should have at least two pieces of evidence per body paragraph, at least one of which should be a quote from your chosen article. Identify topic sentence or main subject for Paragraph #3, choose quotes and personal experience to support it. Use your MEAL (MEEAL or MEAEAEL) structure. You should have at least two pieces of evidence per body paragraph, at least one of which should be a quote from your chosen article. cONCLUSION tHIS ESSAY IS EVALUATED WITH THE TURNITIN APP.
