Monday, October 8, 2007
essay paper
Hello, Mr. Achtermann. In class on last Thrusday, you gave us an example of what the essay should be about. I understand the first part of how we need to make a thesis. (A initial prosposal.) I need to propose my own interpretation to the problem. I was thinking of what is love, friendship, and family as well as what is the relationship and difference between them. Can I do that in my paper? I need your feedback on that. If not, I can do something else. The second part of the essay is the antithesis (an atlernate view). In class, you explained that it is examine other's (common) definition. Something that actually happen(ed). I am still confused about this. The last part of the essay is synthesis. It is the thesis and antithesis that are weighed againist another (which one is more sound.) Once again, I am still confused about this. Can you explain to me more about these two, so I can have a better understanding of the two. I appericate it. Thanks.
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You propose that your topic might be love, friendship, and the family as well as the relationship and the difference between love, friendship, and the family. This may be a bit much to take on for a five-page essay.
You seem to have jumbled notes here about FACTS and about the DIALECTIC. I see similar jumbling elsewhere, and it may be a result of my moving back and forth between boards with several different points supporting each other but exhibited at once. I will work on making my chalkboard notes more clear.
On the dialectic: I hope this is clearer after last class session. The THESIS must be a statement. "What is love, friendship and family as well as what is the relationship and difference between them" is not a thesis. It is not even a very clear topic. make a statement about love, friendship and the family and the relationship between them, something like this:
The family should be based upon friendship and love.
This is a statement about the relationship between friendship and love and the family. In the thesis section of your essay, you provide reasons for or illustrations of this statement. But then you will discover that objections might be raised to this.
The family must be based upon socially acceptable practices.
This could be an antithesis: it proposes something different from the thesis, and challenges the thesis: how do love and friendship relate to socially acceptable practices?
After giving reasons for or illustrations of this antithesis, you can then seek for some resolution between these two, perhaps something like
Socially acceptable behaviors should be determined in accordance with love and friendship.
I hope this makes the matter a bit more clear.
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