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Using Examples to Illustrate Concepts

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First-Year Writing Seminar Program Writing Exercises
Author
Southgate, Libby
Abstract

This writing exercise helps students develop the ability to develop and deploy examples to illustrate concepts or ideas. The exercise is in three parts. In the first, the whole class reads and then discusses examples of writing where an author has used an example to illustrate a concept/idea (passages taken from texts used in class). In the second, the students work in groups to develop their own example, which is then work-shopped as a whole class. Lastly, the students write their example out in prose. This exercise was completed on zoom using interactive google slides in lieu of a physical worksheet, but it would work just as well as a physical worksheet.

Date Issued
2021
Keywords
writing exercises
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examples
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expository writing
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clarity
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signaling words
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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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