Writing a process essay

Writing a process essay

Task 2 - Advanced English 1

Taking good notes

Choosing your topic

Pre-writing your essay

Writing a process essay

Step-by-step information

Writing your outline

The passive voice

Peer-editing exercise

Writing your first draft

Relative Clauses

Taking good notes with a Cornell Notes format

First things first

Watch this video about how to take your notes in this lesson. Cornell notes are a great way to capture information. You can use this technique for reading books, listening to lectures and compiling online resources.

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Writing a Process Essay

Let's see what a process essay is...

Do you have your Cornell Notetaking format ready? If not, go back to the last slide and in the "link" icon get one! Watch the video and start taking good Cornell Notes about it!

How to write a Process Essay Step by Step

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Continue working on your Cornell notes format for How to write a process essay. Read the information in this website thoroughly and complement your information.

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Prewriting your essay

Think before you write.

It's time to generate some ideas, so you can decide on a topic for your essay! Choose one of the pre-writing techniques featured in the video (or in the text found in the link below -which is part of the resource you just checked- and use it to generate ideas about your paper. Then, add a picture or screenshot of your process in the PADLET below.

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Choosing your topic

It's time to choose your topic!

Watch the video and take notes about how to choose a topic. When you have chosen your topic put it in the PADLET below.

Writing an outline

It's about organizing!

Now, it's time to organize your ideas into an outline. When you have written your outline.

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The passive voice

A grammatical tense for processes

We are going to take a look at the passive voice and how that grammatical tense can help us write a process essay. Please, watch the following video and take notes. Get in groups of 3 and compare your notes. Get ready to present this grammar point to another group.

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Relative Clauses

Academic grammar

Relative clauses will help you join sentences in a more complex way. Please, watch the video and take notes. Get ready for a mini-quiz on this!

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Writing your first draft

Time to put it all together

Write the first draft of your essay. Please consider the following:

• Use an academic tone
• Use passive voice and relative clauses when necessary
• Use signposts (sequencing phrases)
• Format it using APA style
• Your essay needs to have at least 4 paragraphs (800-1000 words)

signposting

Peer-editing your first draft

It's time to be an editor!

Now, it's time to use all the tools you learned in our previous task! Using any of the AI and websites your classmates explained, revise your assigned classmate's text using the following criteria: Clarity General structure of the essay Use of passive voice Use of relative clauses Use of simple sentences Use of compound sentences Use of FANBOYS Use of conjunctive adverbs Punctuation

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