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Title: The Informative and Surprising Essay


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The Informative and Surprising Essay
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Information, Information, Information
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So whats your motivation?
  • Immediate Need for Information
  • Curiosity About a Subject

Not Thesis Driven!!
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3 Motivation Surprise Me!
  • Brings new surprising info. to reader
  • Reader does not necessarily need to know
  • Reader must be hooked right away
  • Use Surprise Reversal Strategy

THESIS
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Many People Believe X (common view), But I am
going to show Y (new, surprising view)
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Surprise Reversal Strategy
  • Spurs Writer to go beyond Commonplace thinking in
    an attempt to Change the readers view of a topic
    by contrasting the original (common) view with
    your new and surprising view TENSION
  • Notes
  • Youre not debating (common view is not
    necessarily wrong)
  • You do not have to be an expert, just know more
    than your reader
  • Not everyone in your audience will be surprised
    by your information

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The Guidelines
  • Essay 3 The Informative Essay Ethnography Style

An ethnography is a portraita description of a
particular human situation, practice, or group as
it exists (or existed) in a particular time, at a
particular place, etc.
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Brainstorming
  • Write a list of all the communities you belong to
    (campus, neighborhood, religious, political,
    ethnic, educational, environmental, etc.)
  • What are some of the typical misconceptions the
    general public has of these groups?
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