Extra Credit: Optional Writing Topic Summary

Starting this writing topic on Purdue’s Online Writing Lab, it seemed to make sense to reference the first sentence considering I have little or no experience in writing an extended literary essay and I definitely didn’t take into consideration that I am essentially writing an argument. This seemed very interesting to me on how it suggested how to become comfortable with the uses of quotations, paraphrases and summaries basically to summarize and synthesize a comprehensive discussion about the issue. The examples showed me how to summarize the topic phrase or sentence to generate free flow in developing an outline. Reading Purdue’s online writing lab I also found out that it ranks among the best known and most highly valued.
First, I encountered the understanding that there are four genres of essays: description, narration, exposition and argumentation or “EDNA” for short known as the modes of discourse. I went onto what makes for a good extended literary essay one that requires research, and found that you argue about your interpretation or perspective of an evaluated critical judgment assuring that it is a valid one. This online lab stated that you must start with a specific detailed thesis statement which includes your perspective and that it must be debatable.
Basically the argument/evaluation is the extent that the essay develops an argument relevant to the research question of the essay from the materials being considered and that a conclusion is consistent with the argument.
I found this very interesting and exciting to understand the meaning of this and now when I intensively look for a literary topic that is in the scope for discussion, I can then engage personal critical judgment of literature establishing critical comment as I develop persuasive views in a structured manner appropriate to the study of the literature. I see the argument as the backbone of the essay and that my personal views should be supported with reasoned argument that persuades my audience of the validity of my argument, which I will keep with me as my tool of knowledge that I learned when I write my essays. I also noted that a narration of the action or straightforward description of a literary summary should be avoided in the argument.
The conclusion of this literary writing essay is that the argument should come out of it and not introduce new matter in the end or repeat the introduction but yet present a synthesis of the discussion. In knowing this I better understand the process and going forward using this as a tool and guideline.