Friday, October 24, 2008

Essay Criteria

My groups essay type was an informative essay with the purpose of persuading. We came up with a pretty good list for and essay of this type.

  • Write about a relevant topic
  • Keep the reader's attention
  • State facts and citations to support his ideas/argument
  • Express trustworthiness, sincerity, and reliability to the reader
  • Write an essay that possesses clarity in persuasiveness and informativeness
  • Write a story that the audience would be able to relate to
  • Includes readers on the process of discovery that led him to write on the topic
  • Always be thorough
  • Efficiently do something with the text

1 comment:

abel said...

That looks like a really good list of criteria for an essay. My set of criteria looks very similar.