PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WHEN YOU WRITE THE ANSWERS and REMEMBER YOU MUST QUOTE TWICE PER QUESTION, FROM DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE TEXT and I’ve attached all the reading That you need to use and the questions: GRAMMAR AND SPELLING. Write complete sentences that really mean something. Spell words correctly. BE CAREFUL with your writing. Pretend you’re an artist and your essay is a work of art. Or pretend you’re at an exciting new job and this essay is your presentation to your new, successful, extremely well-dressed and attractive co-workers. Spend time with it. Read over it a few times. Make sure it says what you want it to say, and says it correctly. ____ ORGANIZATION. Execute an intentional plan in your essay. THINK about what you should say first, what second. The trick here is to start with something direct and strong… offer the basics, and then move on to whatever’s dependent on something else (something you wrote at the beginning…) ____ ADDRESS THE ENTIRETY OF THE PROMPT. Questions often have sub-questions… make sure you’re addressing everything. If I ask you: “what was your answer to this part of the prompt, here,” you should be able to point at a portion of the text. If you can’t, the work’s incomplete. REMEMBER YOU MUST QUOTE TWICE PER QUESTION, FROM DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE TEXT… THAT FIGURES UNDER THIS HEADING ____ STAY FOCUSED. Many things might be appropriate in a response, but many other things… are not. I don’t mean that you should be “proper” with your speech, etc.—I just mean you should always have the prompt in mind as you write and edit. Anything that’s not related to the prompt should be edited out. ____ SAY THINGS THAT ARE TRUE. There are many ways to answer any given prompt, but it’s still the case that some answers are right, and some aren’t. ____ SHOW ORIGINALITY AND PERSONAL INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT. I really hate reading the same six sentences in slightly varied forms across thirty students’ work. It’s so boring! On the other hand, I am smitten, charmed and happy when it’s clear that a writer really cared about some content. Now I know this may seem difficult in many cases. Maybe you just don’t care about some topic. Nevertheless, a big part of studying, learning and writing is figuring out HOW to care about something. What’s your angle? There’s got to be some way in which this matters to you, even if it’s just that you hate it (whatever “it” may be). Hating something, by the way, is a perfectly valid mode of engaging with it. It’s infinitely superior to not caring.