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Big Idea
Rhetorical techniques help students become skillful practitioners of written language.
Essential Question
How can writers best demonstrate insightful classifications and/or divisions?
CLASSIFICATION & DIVISION ESSAYS
See CALENDAR for due dates.
Your essay may be strictly Classification or strictly Division, or it may do both...
Helpful Definitions
(http://www.roanestate.edu/owl/Classification.html)
Division Essay: find a topic that people might tend to underestimate or over-simplify. In other words, choose something that the average person might not know much about, and therefore can't really understand how complex or interesting that topic really is. Your job in the essay will be to break your topic down into meaningful and important categories.
Classification Essay: think about the categories we place things in everyday and the characteristics of those categories. The topic you choose should allow you to argue that something has been misplaced.
Classification/Division Scoring Guide
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