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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
Academic Essay
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Date: 3/25/2010
A Definition
The
Academic
Essay
File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Intro page with
image of essay and a textbook
definition
Text Outline: This page will simply
introduce the academic essay as the
focus of this lesson and offer a
definition for consideration.
Purpose and Scope of this Lesson
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academic essay
showing intro and
beginning of first
paragraph
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This is a simple introductory page meant to establish a necessary definition
and provide students with a clear understanding of the scope and purpose of
the lesson.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
Academic Essay
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Date: 3/25/2010
File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Orientation
Video
Text Outline: This offer a brief
walk-through video of the model
essay and introduce three basic
terms that describe an academic
essay.
A Quick Tour of a Model Academic Essay: “The Importance of Clothing”
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Transitioning away from the intro slide, the video will offer a walk-through of
the academic essay shown in the opening slide’s image. This will establish the
consistency of the model essay that will be used throughout the lesson to
illustrate terms and concepts and establish the three key general terms that the
student must know in order to describe the basic component parts of an
academic essay.
Additional Notes: The three basic
terms that will be communicated
audibly in this video will be
reinforced via text in the next frame.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
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Intro
Basic
Terms
Body
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File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Basic
terminology that describe the
academic essay
Text Outline: This page will
establish three key terms that
describe the academic essay
Conclusion
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This page will reinforce the basic definitions introduced in the Frame 122
video and give students a chance to slow down and dwell on each term, its
corresponding definition, and how it is represented in the model essay.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
Academic Essay
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Date: 3/25/2010
File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: A more indepth walk-through of an academic
essay.
Text Outline: This video offers an
in-depth walk-through video of the
model essay and introduces
specialized terminology that builds
on the general terminology.
In-Depth Tour of a Model Academic Essay: “The Importance of Clothing”
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This video will bring the students back to the model essay and offer a more
in-depth look at content, illustrating specialized terms as they exist in the
model.
Additional Notes: The specialized
terms that will be communicated
audibly in this video will be
reinforced via text in the next frame.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
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Thesis
File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Specialized
terminology that describe the
academic essay
Topic Sentences
Forecasting
Text Outline: This page will
establish specialized terms that
further describe the academic essay
by building on the general terms
established earlier.
Transition
Development
Specialized
Terms
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Model Essay will
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in, here when
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This page will reinforce the basic definitions introduced in the Frame 122
video and give students a chance to slow down and dwell on each term, its
corresponding definition, and how it is represented in the model essay.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
Academic Essay
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Outline for
Success
File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Keys to success
Text Outline: This page will
establish how the thesis, topics
sentences, and development connect
with one another to create a
successful essay.
An outline that shows the relationship
between thesis, topic sentences, and
development will appear here
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This page will offer a schematic to stress the relationship between the
specialized terminology, reinforcing what was introduced in the in-depth
walk-through of the body paragraphs from “The Importance of Clothing” and
allowing the reader to see the outline that the author created before she started
drafting.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
Academic Essay
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Thesis
Main Ideas
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File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Review of the
Thesis Statement and Forecasting
from “The Importance of Clothing”
Text Outline: This frame will return
to the intro paragraph of “The
Importance of Clothing” and zoom
in on the Thesis Statement and
Forecasting element, stressing how
they forecast the organization and
reasoning of the essay’s body
paragraphs.
Forecasting
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This page will reinforce the thesis and spend some time defining the
characteristics of an effective thesis. In turn, it will also discuss the optional
forecasting statement that can accompany the Thesis Statement and how it
functions to prepare the reader for the rest of the essay.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
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Thesis
Supporting
Ideas
Topic
Sentence 121
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File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Topic
Sentences
Topic
Sentence 122
Text Outline: This frame will
return to the body paragraphs of
“The Importance of Clothing”
and zoom in on the topic
sentences, stressing how they
carry forwards the organization
and reasoning of forecast in the
intro paragraph.
Topic
Sentence 123
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This page will reinforce the topic sentence and spend some time defining the
characteristics of an effective topic sentence. It will carry forward, in more
specific detail, concepts discussed earlier in the lesson.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
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Examples
Development:
Types of
Evidence
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File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Development
Text Outline: This frame will
return to the body paragraphs of
“The Importance of Clothing”
and zoom in on the types of
evidence (examples and source
support) the author used to
develop her topic sentences.
Source Support
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This page will reinforce the concept of paragraph development and spend
some time defining the characteristics of a well developed paragraph. It will
carry forward, in more specific detail, concepts discussed earlier in the lesson.
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Academic Essay
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In-Text Citations
MLA Style
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File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: MLA Style
Works Cited
Text Outline: This frame will
return to the body paragraphs of
“The Importance of Clothing”
and zoom in on the source
support the author used to
develop her topic sentences,
where the angle of emphasis will
be in-text citation style and the
connection between in-text
citations and the Works Cited
page.
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Transitioning from the concept of development, this frame will concentrate on
how the author used MLA style to integrate sources into her essay and record
retrieval information on the Works Cited page. The overriding goal of this
frame though is to establish definitions of “in-text citations” and “Works
Cited” and associate them with representative parts of the model essay.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
Academic Essay
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Date: 3/25/2010
File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Applying MLA
style.
Text Outline: This video offers an
in-depth walk-through video how a
style guide can be used to format
both in-text citations and Works
Cited entries, where the video will
move back and forth between an
online style manual and the model
essay..
MLA Style applied in “The Importance of Clothing”
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This video will bring the students back to the model essay and offer a more
in-depth look how a resource can be consulted to determine how to format intext citations and Works Cited page bibliographic entries.
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Lesson Title: An Introduction to the
Academic Essay
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Date: 3/25/2010
A Definition
The
Academic
Essay
File Name: The Academic Essay
Screen Description: Conclusion and
review of Key s to Success for
writing an academic essay.
Text Outline: The frame will draw
closure to the lesson and review the
keys to success outline show earlier
using corresponding illustration
from the model essay..
Purpose and Scope of this Lesson
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academic essay
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paragraph
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The lesson ends here with a review meant to drive home key concepts
concerning how the terminology introduced in this letter works together to
create a successful academic essay.
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