THREE POSSIBLE ESSAY FORMATS: REMINDERS

For the Ender's Game essay on manipulation (due next week, ROUGH DRAFT due Thurs/Fri this week) there is not one format, since it will depend a great deal on your thesis statement.

• If you are writing a cause and effect essay, you will have a paragraph after the intro showing the cause(s) of whatever manipulation form you chose and then the effects will be at least another 3 paragraphs, maybe 4 depending on your focus and evidence, then a conclusion.
• If you are instead showing that manipulation is a human trait, it will be a straightforward 5 paragraph essay: intro, hinted manipulation, developed manipulation, fully realized manipulation, conclusion tying Ender's experience to our own world.
• Finally, you can compare and contrast two experiences of manipulation in the book (this is the hardest). After the intro, you would have 3 short paragraphs outlining how one character used or experienced manipulation (beginning, middle, end), a transition sentence or paragraph, then 3 more short paragraphs outlining hte same for another character, followed by a paragraph tying the 2 experiences into what we, as readers, learn from the contrasting characters, about manipulation.

These are the same directions I gave verbally last week, but a student reminded me that we all could use repetition, sometimes.