What Other Researchers do

Thus far we’ve read three researched essays:  No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch,  Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream, and Earthquake News.  Each is vastly different in style, structure, organization, length, content. Now we want to look at what features of good essay writing and good researching they share.  With your group, consider the following:

1. Can you identify a thesis (topic plus a way the writer wants you to see or understand the topic) for each?
2. Where and how does each writer use techniques of development (exposition, example, category, comparison, quotation of outside sources, dramatization, process, statistics) to explain the thesis?  Give specific examples from each?
3. How does each writer appeal to readers’ interests?