Critical Thinking: Adding Ideas to Your Essay 2

What does your hope to gain/recover symbolize/illustrate about you as a person -- or about people in general? Answer this question in a unified paragraph using the Linking techniques we reviewed in our last classes together. 

1. Brainstorm your idea first
• How is your own personal journey more than just your own.
2. List a few reasons and examples (personal or universal) that first this claim
3. Start with a powerful topic sentence that directly answers the above question:

• Your topic sentence subject needs to be your Essay 2 subject matter--name the thing!
• Your topic sentence needs to use one of these verbs, or one that is relevant from the list of active verbs we reviewed earlier in the semester:
• symbolizes
• represents
• connotes
• confirms
• distinguishes
• defines
• moralizes
• exemplifies
• typifies
• corroborates
• depicts