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Personal Response Essay: Introduction & Background paragraph
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Title of My Paper: Personal Response Essay
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Introduction (3 sentences)
Introductory Sentence: Explain a general statement on the importance of understanding your prompt.
Topic Sentence: Introduce more specific ideas about its importance.
Thesis Statement: Explain your overall response to the prompt (Thesis KW) and the roadmap (two significant parts from the prompt)
Find the Correct Order
Canada has a long history of immigration and significant changes were made after the Komagata Maru incident.
Mistreatment towards South Asian immigrants revealed in the film “Remembering Komagata Maru” awakens my sence of fair immigration policy for all migrants through the following aspects: Aspect 1 and 2.
This became a turning point for the government to reinforce equality to immigrants especially for the South Asian community.
Introduction
1. Introductory sentence:
=> Canada has a long history of immigration and significant changes were made after the Komagata Maru incident.
2. Topic sentence:
=> This became a turning point for the government to reinforce equality to immigrants especially for the South Asian community.
=> Komagata Maru was a major turning point for Canadian immigration law to tighten up on justice and fair treatment to…
3. Thesis statement:
=> Mistreatment towards South Asian immigrants revealed in the film “Remembering Komagata Maru” awakens my sence of fair immigration policy for all migrants through the following aspects: Aspect 1 and 2.
Example of the introduction paragraph
Leaders in society are shaped by different life experiences as they take on the responsibilities of their position. Becoming an authentic leader requires a lifelong learning process to discover oneself and to truly become a stronger human. The significance of experiencing failure revealed in the book “True North” inspires me to look for what is coming beyond the failure to achieve ultimate goals through the following aspects: accepting the consequences of the mistakes and building support groups to seek advice.
=>What is the Prompt (Topic KW)?
=> What is Overall Response (Thesis KW)?
Thesis statement Example
Thesis Keyword (main idea) revealed/portrayed/highlighted in “Prompt title” reminds me of/inspires/awakens my sense of [Reaction] through the following aspects: [aspect 1] and [aspect 2].
The environmental racism revealed in the archived images of “Gone but never forgotten: Bob Brooks’ photographic portrait of Africville in the 1960s” inspires me to be more attentive to similar injustice in current Canada through the following aspects: 1 & 2.
The simple lifestyle portrayed in the archived images of “Gone but never forgotten: Bob Brooks’ photographic portrait of Africville in the 1960s” reminds me that humanizing historical events creates dignity through the following parts: 1 & 2.
Work on Task 1: Introduction
To indicate your reaction, you can use:
Reminds me of ____ [noun]
Reinforces my understanding of ____ [noun]
Draws my attention to ____ [noun]
Makes me wonder/think/consider about ____ [noun]
Makes me question how/why + full sentence
Contributes to my thoughts about ____ [noun]
Awakens my sense of ____ [noun]
Inspires me to ____ [verb – an action]
What are the most significant “two quotes” from the PROMPT?
Paraphrase the quotes into noun phrases (=paragraph keywords) for your thesis statement.
Save the direct quotations so you can use them in body paragraphs (Evidence part).
Background paragraph
Introduce the credentials of the film (who/when it was made)
More detailed information on the topic (history of the Komagata Maru incident)
Write a summary of the film focusing on what you will respond to. (main characters/speakers from the film)
4. Transition Sentence using a synonym of your thesis keyword.
Background paragraph informs your readers of the information about the prompt.
This requires your research (information on Komagata Maru)
Summarize the film (summary of the incident related to your two quotes)
Paraphrase.
Do not copy and paste with “direct quotations”
Do not include your own opinion.
Do not use: You/We/Us/I
Add in-text citations.
Example Background Paragraph
Introduce the prompt and research the information of its credentials. (When/how it is made).
=> The producer of the film “Remembering Komagata Maru” is …/which was made in…
2. Write detailed information on the prompt (history of the Komagata Maru incident, main theme)
=> Komagata Maru incident occurred in…
3. Write a summary of the prompt. the characters/speakers from the film focusing on what you will respond to)
=> In the film, the main characters are…
The film portrays/illustrates/gives insights into… they give insights into Canadian immigration law…
4. Transition sentence
=> Therefore, [thesis kw] is revealed in the Prompt.
Remove some unnecessary parts from the example background paragraph
The film “Erin Brockovich” was made in…. It reflects a true story based on an incident happened in a town in America, where a single mother won the case of compensation of 333 million dollars of a civil law-suit. The story still encourages and inspires many individual today who is in effort to fight for their violated rights. The main character, Erin Brockovich, used to be a beauty queen in her younger time, and she is also a single mother with two failed marriage, which left her with three children. Her life sank down to the bottom after losing a law-suit of traffic accident and now she works for Ed’s law firm as junior clerk. After she found out the water and land were polluted by the PG&E company who dumped Hexavalent Chromium contained water into the town of Hinkley. After the dump, the company fooled the residence of the town with the pre-claimed facts of a safe and unharmful waste dump. The Hexavalent Chromium caused wild-spread chromium poisoning incidents and Erin acknowledged it and determined to fight regardless the cost. She broke through many obstacles, hardship and setbacks for finding legal-support from her boss and trust from the residence of the town to fight together for their violated right, which the violated crowd thought impossible to sue. At last, Erin collected the extremely detailed 634 orders of documents for the residence in front of the court of law and won the case by the record-high sum to be paid in the history of U.S. lawsuit from the giant company of PE&G (Spielberg, 2000). Therefore, …
The film “Erin Brockovich” reflects a true story based on an incident happened in a town in America, where a single mother won the case of compensation of 333 million dollars of a civil law-suit. The story still encourages and inspires many individual today who is in effort to fight for their violated rights. The main character, Erin Brockovich, used to be a beauty queen in her younger time, and she is also a single mother with two failed marriage, which left her with three children. Her life sank down to the bottom after losing a law-suit of traffic accident and now she works for Ed’s law firm as junior clerk. After she found out the water and land were polluted by the PG&E company who dumped Hexavalent Chromium contained water into the town of Hinkley. After the dump, the company fooled the residence of the town with the pre-claimed facts of a safe and unharmful waste dump. The Hexavalent Chromium caused wild-spread chromium poisoning incidents and Erin acknowledged it and determined to fight regardless the cost. She broke through many obstacles, hardship and setbacks for finding legal-support from her boss and trust from the residence of the town to fight together for their violated right, which the violated crowd thought impossible to sue. At last, Erin collected the extremely detailed 634 orders of documents for the residence in front of the court of law and won the case by the record-high sum to be paid in the history of U.S. lawsuit from the giant company of PE&G (Spielberg, 2000). Therefore, …
