essay Archives - Susan Fitzell https://susanfitzell.com/tag/essay/ The Modern Day MacGyver of Business and Education! Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:26:19 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://susanfitzell.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cropped-favicon2-32x32.png essay Archives - Susan Fitzell https://susanfitzell.com/tag/essay/ 32 32 Use Wordle.net to Detect Overused Words! https://susanfitzell.com/use-wordle-net-to-detect-overused-words/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:26:19 +0000 http://www.thehomeworkguru.com/?p=138 Have your child paste their essay in www.Wordle.net. The overused words in the essay will be the largest in the Wordle design. Have your child use a thesaurus to find multi-syllabic words to replace the overused words. Multi-syllabic words increase the reading level (grade level) of a student essay.

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]]> The Body of the Essay: A Visual Demonstration https://susanfitzell.com/the-body-of-the-essay-a-visual-demonstration/ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:11:13 +0000 http://susanfitzell.edublogs.org/?p=101 The Body of an essay…I use the human body as an analogy to explain the parts of an essay. This blog entry shows you how!

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Visual Demonstration

The Body of an essay…I use the human body as an analogy to explain the parts of an essay.

1. The Brain – the intro: like the brain, the intro “controls” the body of the essay (especially point out ‘thesis’)

2. The Heart – body paragraph: at the “heart” of the essay are the body paragraphs.

3. The Feet – conclusion: like your feet,the conclusion leads you to somewhere new (i.e. new idea, insight). Also students should be able to answer the question “so what?” (Why is this information important?) by the time the essay has reached the feet. –

Tip contributed by Melanie Speight, Ste. Genevieve RII Check out her website.

 

 

 

 

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