This writing assignment--The Profile Essay--requires students to use a variety of rhetorical modes to support a thesis statement.
This resource provides lecture notes and writing assignments for the study of a novel - in this case, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. These notes and assignments, however, can be adapted and applied to practically any novel. Unless otherwise noted, this resource is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.
This PowerPoint presentation can be used as a study guide or during class instruction to help students understand the process and connections between the thesis, introduction, and topic sentences of a traditional essay. If viewing for study, the student should follow along with the display mode.
For this assignment, the student will select an historical issue from the first half of U.S. history (pre-history to 1877) to analyze in a paper using primary sources.