Part II: The Essay

Question on the model

1. There are three types of successful styles of music, which are Reggae,
Punk, and Rap.
2. There are three body paragraphs:
a. One successful style of popular music is Reggae, which was born on
the Caribbean island of Jamaica in the 1960s and spread throughout
the world in the 1970s.
b. A second successful style of popular music is punk. Punk is a style of
rock music that began in the mid-1970s as a reaction against previous
forms of rock.
c. A third successful style of popular music is rap, which is also called
hip-hop. Rap is a type of dance music in which the singers-rappers-
speak in rhythm and rhyme rather than sing.

Practice 1: Introductory Paragraph

1. Nowadays, many men and women work in law, accounting, real estate, and business.
These people are serious about becoming successful, so they work long hours during
week and even on the weekend. People who work long hours are called “workaholics”.
Because they work so many hours, workaholics may not spend enough time in
leisure activities. Therefore, workaholics’ lifestyles can affect their families, social
lives, and health. There are three things that can define whether you are a
workaholic or not.
2. Diving a car is a necessary in today’s busy society, and it is also a special privilege.
Therefore, anyone who wants to drive must carry a driver’s license. Getting a
driver’s license is a complicated process. It is divided into four steps: studying the
traffic laws, taking the writing test, learning to drive, and taking the diving test. The
followings are some of the tip that makes you get driver’s license easily.
3. The teenage years between childhood and adulthood are a period of growth and
separation. During this period, children separate themselves from their parents and
become independent. Teenagers express their separateness most vividly in their
choice of clothes, hairstyle, music, and vocabulary. Here are some tips that you
could know before being separate from your parents.

Practice 2: Body Paragraphs

1. Young people who don’t love at home have several advantages.

 A. The first advantage is responsibility.
B. The second advantage is independent.
C. The last advantage is freedom.
2. My country has several interesting places to visit.
A. One of the most beautiful is Angkor wat, which is world heritage temple locate in
Siem Reap province.
B. Another interesting one is Preah Vihear temple, which is located on the
mountain where you can feel like you are living in the sky.
C. The last interesting place is Kep province, which has the most beautiful beach.
3. Three modern technological devices have changed the way we communicate.
A. The first technological device is computer, which transforms the way we work,
we do thing and entertainment.
B. The second technological device that changed the world is smart phone, which
allowed all people around the world that far away from each other can
communicate, talk and even make a video call to one and other.
C. The third technological device is Airplane, which allowed people to travel from
one part of the world to another part of the world in just one day.
4. There are several types of movies that I especially enjoy watching.
A. The Squad Game, which is the most popular movie on Netflex.
B. The Final Destination, which is the most scare movie that made me feel unsafe
about anything around me.
C. The office, which is the longest series show on Netflex.

Additional Idea – Transition Signals

Sentence connectors: Furthermore, Moreover, Besides, In addition, + followed by a comma

and independent clause.

Example: Furthermore, In addition, Moreover, Besides, people on fad diets often gain even
more weight that they had lost.

Prepositions: Besides, In addition to + noun or gerund.

Example: Besides/ In addition to not losing weight, people on fad diets often gain even
more weight than they had lost.

Opposite Idea – Transition Signals

Sentence connector: On the other hand, However,

Example: On the other hand, / However, people who want to lose weight can succeed.

Subordinators: Although, Even though

Example: Although/ Even though fad diets do not work, there are other diets that do.

Prepositions: Despite… / In spite of …

Example: Despite/ In spite of many attempts to lost weight, I am still overweight.

Despite/ In spite of dieting for several years, I am still overweight.

Practice 4: Transitions Between Paragraphs

1.
2.
3. Furthermore,
4. In additional to telecommuting-
5. Moreover,
6. On the other hand,
7. In addition,
8. Although

Outline: Styles of Popular Music

I. Introduction
Thesis Statement: Three of the more successful styles are reggae, punk, and rap.
II. Body
A. One successful style of popular music is reggae.
1. Born on the Caribbean island of Jamaica in the 1960s.
a. Spread throughout the world in the 1970s.
2. Developed from mento.
a. Some musicians changed mento into a music style called ska by
adding hesitation beat.
b. A few years later, other musicians changed ska, and reggae was born.
3. Reggae’s special sound comes from reversing the roles of the instruments.
a. Guitar plays rhythm and bass plays melody.
4. An influence on reggae music was the Rastafarian cult.
a. Unusual sound mixes
b. Extra-slow tempo
c. Strange lyrics
d. Mystical-political themes.
 5. Bob Markey-best known reggae musician
a. Well-known groups are Toots & The Maytals, Burning Spear, and Steel
Pulse.
6. Reggae has influenced later style of popular music (punk, Rap).
B. A second successful style of popular music is punk.
1. Punk began in the mid-1970s as reaction against previous forms of rock.
a. Punks felt that rock music no longer represented the counterculture
from which it had sprung and had.
2. With clothing and hairstyles, punks intended to shock society.
a. The “punk look” included spike hairdos, theatrical makeup, ripped
clothing, body piercings, and jewelry made from objects such razor
blades and safety pins.
3. The onstage behavior of punks was aggressive and provocative.
a. Fighting and other violent behavior by the fans were common
occurrences.
4. Punk music is simple
a. Anti-government
b. Anti-authority
c. Anti-conformity
5. Popular band of punk is the Sex Pistols and Clash in Great Britain and
Ramones.
6. Punk has evolved into other styles.
a. Dead Kenedys and Black Flag play hardcore punk
b. The band Fall Out Boy plays emo
c. Pop punk, made popular by the group Green Day, is another new punk
style.
C. A third successful style of popular music is rap.
1. Also known as hip-hop.
2. Form of dance music-singers speak in rhythm and rhyme.
3. Originated in Africa
a. Traveled to the U.S. via Jamaica--“toasting”
b. Rap first appeared in mid-1070s in discos of New York
c. Disco DJs + rappers played songs for dancers at parties
d. The role of rapper was to keep the beat going with hand claps while
the DJ changed records.
e. Soon, rappers added lyrics, slogans, rhymes, and call-and-response
exchanges with the audience.
 4. Early rap songs were mainly about dancing, partying, and the romantic
adventures of the rappers.
a. Politics—theme in 1980s and 1990s.
5. Most rappers are young black males.
a. Female apper—Queen Latifah
b. White rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Eminem.
III. Conclusion
Popular music changes constantly. New styles are born, grow, change, and
produce offshoots, which in turn grow, change, and produce offshoots. Some
styles enjoy lasting popularity, but others disappear rather quickly. However, all
contribute to the power and excitement of popular music in our time.

Planning an Essay

Produce: Milk, cheese, hamburger, cake, doughnuts

Dairy Products: apples, carrots, oranges, lettuce, potatoes, eggs, tomatoes

Meat: pork chops, steak

Baked Goods: bread, pie, cookie,

Personal Care/ Health Products: Aspirin, vitamins, shampoo, toothpaste

B. Divide the list of sports into groups.

Ball Sport: badminton, baseball, basketball, bobsledding, soccer, table tennis, tennis,
volleyball,

Water Sport: fishing, diving, scuba diving, swimming, waterskiing, windsurfing

Skiing Sport: Skiing,

Target Sport: Bowling, golf, ice hockey

Body Sport: gymnastics,

Activity Sport: hiking, ice skating, jogging, mountain climbing, skateboarding

Kinds of Lies

Good lies: broken window, lie to get out trouble, polite lies, helpful lies, diplomatic lies

Bad lies: stole a cookie, stole a bicycle, children who do something bad

Social lies: lying to police officer when caught speeding

Practice 7: Outlining Body Paragraphs

 A. Make an outline of the body paragraphs only for an essay about different kinds of
sports.
Water sport

1. Fishing is kind of water sport that you can go fishing in the ocean or a lake.
2. Diving is and other kind of sport that you diving into a water.
a. Go into the water, find some place to views, watch fish travel
3. Scuba diving is similar to diving, but it is diving with scuba.
4. Swimming is an interesting sport that make you feel better.
a. First, you must learn how to swim.
b. Wearing swimming clothes and start swimming in the water.
5. Waterskiing, is the sport that make you feel afraid at first.
a. You skiing in the water
b. Sometime you fall into the water.
c. You must can swim
6. Windsurfing is more likely to Waterskiing, but it has to deal with winds.
a. First, you got train on how to use equipment.
b. You should do it when you there is the wind.

Review:

You probably do. About 10 percent of the population uses their left rather than their right
hand for writing and other tasks.

Although many athletes, musicians, artists, and world leaders are left-handed, but being
left-handed certainly has a few disadvantages in a world designed by and for right-handed
people.

(Run-on) First of all, handshakes. Right-handed people offer their right hands and expect
to grasp the right hand of the other person. The instinct of left-handers, however, is to
extend their left hand, so they have to train themselves to extends their right.

Let’s consider the chairs in classrooms with little fold-up desktops for taking notes.

Or else they have to turn themselves around…

Last but not least right-handed people are the many inventions of the modern world.

Writing Assignment:

Clothing Styles

Step 1: Prewrite to get an idea

Modern fashion, trend of youths, country or religion, social level, New generation,

Traditional fashion, cost, longer product using, low price, easy to change every time, not
out of date, get well with social event, draft, high fashion,

Step 2: Organize an idea by making an outline.

1. Modern fashion, which is trending with most youths want it.

a. Trending fashion
b. Low cost
c. Get well with social
d. There is always something new to come
e. There are a lot of items to choose.
2. Traditional fashion, which is used only in an event, or ceremony.
a. Out of date sometimes
b. Not have much choice
c. No trend
d. Professional
3. Professional clothing style, which is type of style that always profession, more
high level.
a. Professional people
b. People who work in the office job.
c. People who took something too formal, and a little more serious
4. Normal clothing style, which is type of style that is easy going, feel relaxing.
a. Like informal
b. Make it easy as possible
c. No need to worry other’s judgements
d. Focus on their lives than just good looking.

Step 3: Write the rough draft:

Clothing Styles

Every people have their own fashion styles. Some people like professional fashion,
whereas some people prefer convenience with their fashions. Clothing is a part of people
everyday lives, and it also reflects what kind of person are you. Here are two types of person
which they prefer different kind of fashion styles.

The first and most popular clothing style is modern fashion. Since there are a lot of
generation Z nowadays, most all youths love modern fashions, which are more trendy and
luxury with people around. Modern fashions have different kind of color, brands, and
options to choose. Additionally, they come up with new models and styles more quickly, and
available everywhere across the countries or cities as soon as it releases on the market. Some
people just wear modern fashion once time and stop wearing it anymore because they are
afraid of being judge by other people, so they start finding new clothes or fashion. However,
modern fashions are so expensive and their fashion styles sometimes might go too crazy as
well. People who like the modern fashion have to spend more money on it because they have
to keep themselves update with latest fashion available on the market. Some modern
fashions are quite too expensive, but some are good both price and quality. Although, there
are two types of person who like wearing the modern fashions, but they are different from
each other. The first type is trendy people, which they change their clothes more often with
the latest fashions. When trendy people go shopping, they focus mainly on the fashion rather
than price of the items, or the convenience when they are wearing it. Easy-going people, on
the other hand, like to wear somethings that make them feel comfortable and relax. They do
not think too much on style of the fashion, so sometimes they would end up buying the same
styles of clothes for years if it is good for them. This type of person does not think too much
on social trending. They are wearing somethings that make them easy and relax.

Another popular clothing style is traditional fashion. Unlike other types of fashion
that come up, and they become trending so quickly, but then disappear from the market just
in sort of time. Traditional fashions last so long with the people from one generation to other
generation. Eventually, traditional clothing often used in the big ceremony or religion events
as well as some traditional parties. Therefore, it reflects the meaning of that event.
Traditional clothes do not have much choice since they were designed only for the specific
type of events. Moreover, the price of the traditional clothes is also a bit higher than normal
fashion, but it is wealthy to spend since it is the rarely fashion products. Even though, people
do not need to buy it often as they do with the modern fashion. Traditional fashion, on the
other hand, fits well with all people. Traditional fashion is the professional fashion which
were invented for all people in a specific event or ceremony which has a uniqueness from
one event to other from one country to another country and from time to time as well.

To sum up, there are two types of people who prefer different clothing styles from
each other, but no matters what kind of clothes they buy or wear, it is just their favorite
fashion. Since we prefer different kind of clothing styles, so we should never make any
judgments or any consideration base on what people are wearing because they are different
from all of us, please appreciate it instead.

Practice 8: Summarizing an Essay.

Write a summary of any of the essays in this chapter.

Summary of “Styles of Popular Music”

There are three types of most popular rock music in the west such as Reggae, Punk, and Rap.

Reggae was created in the year of 1970. Punk music is invented from reversing the roles of
instruments. Reggae has influence another types of rock music like punk and rap.

Punk is one more successful type of music that created because reggae music does not
represent counterculture. Punk wanted to shock the society, and it is anti-government, anti-
authority, and anti-society. Punk music appeared to be more aggressive and proactive.

The last type of popular music is Rap, which is appeared in the Disco Club. First, rap only
used for make the connection between people when the DJs change record, but then the DJs
started add slogans, lyrics and rhythm. In 1980s and 1990s politics became the important
role of rap music.

Summary of “Left-Handedness”

There are a few disadvantages for left-handed people in the world.

First, left-handed people have to train themselves to feel more comfortable with the right-
handed people. Secondly in most school table was designed only for right-handed people
which made left-handed people hard to write and do task. The last disadvantage is that left-
handed people have to use the products which were designed by and for right-handed people
such as scissors, can openers, cameras and computer keyboard etc.