STAAR Essay Writing

CDW Essay writing 2.28

By Lindsey Keena

How to write your staar essay-

Writing the staar essay uses the same strategies in every English Class​

1. Intro

2. body paragraph 1

3. body paragraph 2

4. conclusion ​

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Intro

Your answer to the prompt and your two reasons

Body paragraph #1 with CDW

Your first reason ​used in your answer and why it answers the question (claim)

Your DATA or text evidence from a text used in STAAR

Your reason why the data proves the claim​

Body paragraph #2 with CDW

Your second reason used in your answer in the intro (claim)

Personal Data

and why​ with Data and Warrant​

Conclusion

Summarize your introduction​

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What is included?

Intro includes:

Your answer to the prompt in a full sentence with at least two reasons why your answer is correct. ​The prompt:

Write an essay stating whether or not geniuses have to work hard for their achievements?​

For example:

There are very few geniuses in this world and despite the fact that they are smarter than the average person, geniuses still have to work hard to achieve because creating a product and building anything still requires hard work.

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Body paragraphs include

CDW

Claim, data, warrant are the three key points needed in each body pagraph. ​​

Claim: Stating your first reason from your introduction

Data: Using text evidence from a text in the STAAR

Warrant:​ Explaining why the text evidence proves your claim

Example of a CDW body paragraph using the intro:

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There are very few geniuses in this world and despite the fact that they are smarter than the average person, geniuses still have to work hard to achieve because creating a product and building anything still requires hard work.

People that are called geniuses may be smart but that does not mean they dont have to put in hard work to achieve a goal. ​For example, in the text "A Strong Work Ethic and Genius is the Key to Success", Thomas Edison had to work even harder to invent the lightbulb than most think. The author wrote, "Thanks to his unwillingness to give up, we can fliip a light switch on without a thought". Even geniuses like Thomas Edison still had to work hard to achieve his goal of creating the perfect light bulb.

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​Now that you have used text to in the first body paragraph, theSecond body paragarph can be your own experience now...

Building ​anything requires hard work even if someone is a genius because hard work is how someone uses their genius mind. I know I may not be a genius on paper, but I have been able to learn how to build robots in my Engineering class. I had already aced all the lessons on programming and designing, but that meant nothing if I didn't work hard to build the robot. The goal in my class was to create a robot that could do everyday tasks for people who were disabled. Our robot needed to tie someones shoes. Even though I felt like a genius because I knew everything about building a robot, our robot would not have been successful without working hard to achieve our class goal.

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Your intro was:

There are very few geniuses in this world and despite the fact that they are smarter than the average person, geniuses still have to work hard to achieve because creating a product and building anything still requires hard work.​

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Conclusion:

Geniuses all over the world are admired for being smarter than everyone else, but because they have to work just as hard to achieve anything they really are no different than the average person. ​Geniuses may know everything in their minds already, but without putting in hard work our favorite products may have never been created or built.

Conclusion: Use your intro again

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On the handout of this essay, label:

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1. The key parts of an intro

2. each part of a body paragraph

   Claim, Data, Warrant​

3. what part of the conclusion is the intro​

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Now write your own

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