Process Analysis Essay
For this assignment, youll prepare an 11001200 word process analysis essay that incorporates narration and description, using elements from your process analysis prewriting assignment.
You may not submit this essay until youve received your grade and instructor feedback on your prewriting exam. While youre waiting for your prewriting to be evaluated, you should do the following:
Review the reading assignments for Lesson 5.
Study the sample process analysis essays and review the guided writing assignment in Chapter 14 of your textbook.
Prepare a rough draft of your process analysis essay so that youre ready to review when you receive feedback on your prewriting.
Assignment Objectives
For this essay, you must do the following:
Use prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing to write formal, college-level essays
Distinguish between different patterns of development
Apply an appropriate pattern of development to a specific purpose and audience
Write effective thesis statements
Develop paragraphs using topic sentences, adequate detail, supporting evidence, and transitions
Apply the conventions of standard written American English to produce correct, well-written essays
Topic
To illustrate the process you use to manage your time to successfully balance your home, work, and school responsibilities. Your purpose is to identify and describe the steps you have taken and to illustrate to your readers how these steps have worked for you.
Youll be writing in the first-person point of view because this is your process. Your audience is other Penn Foster students.
Writing Your Essay
In your prewriting, you focused on whats happening in your life. For your formal essay, youll revise and reorganize your prewriting to create an essay that shows other students how you manage your time when taking online courses, maintaining a job, and focusing on family responsibilities.
You will use your prewriting as your foundation, but it will require major reorganization and revision to include:
An introductory paragraph with a thesis statement that addresses the purpose of the essay.
34 body paragraphs that each begin with a topic sentence that identifies a step, tool, or technique you included in your second prewriting paragraph. Each body paragraph should then build on that step, tool, or technique with the narration and description from your first prewriting paragraph.
A conclusion that reinforces the thesis statement and purpose of the essay.
Note: Use the Process Analysis Essay Worksheet on your student portal to help you organize your essay.
