{"id":44,"date":"2019-12-07T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/coreqenglish1\/chapter\/outcome-recognize-characteristics-of-organically-structured-essays\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T22:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:17:04","slug":"outcome-recognize-characteristics-of-organically-structured-essays","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/chapter\/outcome-recognize-characteristics-of-organically-structured-essays\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Writing Essays","rendered":"Introduction to Writing Essays"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: examine characteristics of common essay assignments<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2871 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4975\/2019\/12\/01162134\/bright-1296538_1280-300x220.png\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/>\r\n\r\nAs we discussed before, college writing is often less rigid and formulaic than the writing you did in high school.\u00a0While college writing takes on a more flexible, organic approach, that doesn\u2019t mean it lacks structure. Instead of rigid formulas, different types of writing follow recognizable patterns. For example, compare-and-contrast essays, narratives, arguments, and process essays each have common ways they are organized, even if the structure isn\u2019t strictly prescribed.\r\n<p data-start=\"676\" data-end=\"835\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In this module, you\u2019ll explore these rhetorical patterns and learn how to use them to shape your writing effectively while maintaining a natural flow of ideas.<\/p>","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: examine characteristics of common essay assignments<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2871 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4975\/2019\/12\/01162134\/bright-1296538_1280-300x220.png\" alt=\"Decorative image.\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we discussed before, college writing is often less rigid and formulaic than the writing you did in high school.\u00a0While college writing takes on a more flexible, organic approach, that doesn\u2019t mean it lacks structure. 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For example, compare-and-contrast essays, narratives, arguments, and process essays each have common ways they are organized, even if the structure isn\u2019t strictly prescribed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"676\" data-end=\"835\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In this module, you\u2019ll explore these rhetorical patterns and learn how to use them to shape your writing effectively while maintaining a natural flow of ideas.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-44\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Organically Structured Essays. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Karen Forgette. <strong>Project<\/strong>: UM PLATO Project. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Icon of head and thought bubbles. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: OpenClipart-Vectors. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Pixabay. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/bright-contemplation-idea-1296538\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/bright-contemplation-idea-1296538\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>Other<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":29,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Organically Structured Essays\",\"author\":\"Karen Forgette\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"UM PLATO Project\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Icon of head and thought bubbles\",\"author\":\"OpenClipart-Vectors\",\"organization\":\"Pixabay\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/vectors\/bright-contemplation-idea-1296538\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"other\",\"license_terms\":\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/terms\/#license\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"0f8cae6b-3b7c-4be9-b335-8364737b0a1a","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-44","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1732,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/44\/revisions\/6474"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1732"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/44\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}