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Occasion:
What are the circumstances surrounding this text?
Audience:
Who is the target audience?
Purpose:
Why did the author write this text?
Subject:
What is the topic?
Tone:
What is the writer’s attitude toward the subject?
Students in schools experience violence, gang activities, and theft of clothing and accessories.
“In recent years, schools across the country have experienced violence, gang activity, and thefts of clothing and accessories.”
“Lane and others off the following advice to policy-makers.”
“Educators and the public are divided over the value of implementing school- uniform policies in the public schools. “
“As many as 25 percent of the nation’s public elementary, middle, and junior high schools were expected to implement dress-related policies during the 1997-98 school year . . .”
“Whichever policy is chosen, successful implementation depends on developing positive perceptions among students and parents, making uniforms available and inexpensive, implementing dress-code/ uniform policies in conjunction with other educational change strategies . . .”
Educators, education policy- makers, parents.
To examine the arguments for and against dress uniform policies since more schools are adopting a dress code.
Whether to have uniform dress codes in schools.
The author has a balanced tone and does not express an attitude or opinion.
3. With your writing group, discuss your findings and select an appropriate prewriting strategy to generate ideas in response to the prompt. Select the best ideas from your prewriting to construct a working thesis for your essay.
4. Co-construct a preliminary outline for your essay that includes your thesis and supporting topic sentences with relevant examples and details.
Drafting
5. Review the ideas from your prewriting with your peers and co-construct a draft of the body paragraphs. Be sure to embed quotes from the article where appropriate.
6. Read your paragraphs and discuss an effective way to introduce and conclude the key ideas. Use a prewriting strategy to generate a draft that demonstrates the parts of effective introductions and conclusions.
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