Education career Analysis

Context
Throughout your academic and professional career and beyond, you will be asked to define something from your major field of study or based on your interest. Accordingly, you will be expected to deliver your definition through clear and logical writing to multiple audiences and from diverse perspectives, demonstrating your expertise on that particular subject, and eventually, reflecting your competence as a writer and a professional.
Subject
This Module presents the first Major Writing Assignment in ESL 15, the Extended Definition Essay (EDE). For this essay, you are expected to define ONE item, concept, or principle in your (intended) major or your choice as an “expert”. Rather than offering a literal definition that can be easily found online or in a dictionary, you should define this item from multiple perspectives and draw from your own experiences. In other words, you should describe a diversity of connotations, implied meanings, and/or language and cultural references, so that it is really an extended one.
Audience
For this assignment, your audience is a general (non-specialist) readership in the academic community (e.g., peers, classmates, tutors, and instructors/professors). Of course, I, as the instructor and someone studying and working in a university, am your primary audience, but think about other academic audiences broadly as well.
Purpose
Your purpose is to help your audience formulate a clear and multi-perspective understanding of the item you choose to define. In other words, by the time your reader (e.g., me) finish reading your essay, s/he should have had a thorough understanding of what that item is, what it means and represents to different people and in different contexts, how it functions, how it can be interpreted in different cultures and languages, and perhaps, why it matters.
Task Overview
Similar to what you experienced in Module Zero, this Module consists of five graded tasks. Collectively, these tasks establish the necessary “steps” for you to develop your EDE essay. You are required to complete them by yourself, with a partner, and/or in small groups by the published deadlines:
General Organization and Structure
When organizing your essay, make sure that it includes the following general components:
• An introduction that includes:

1. a description of the background and the context of your chosen item
2. a thesis statement that clearly defines your chosen item
   • A body that includes:
3. three to four main points (e.g., three to four body paragraphs) that support the thesis
    each paragraph should begin with a clear topic sentence
    each paragraph should end with a concluding sentence
4. rich details and examples that illustrate, expand, and/or develop the topic sentence
5. clear and logical transitions between the paragraphs
   • A conclusion that includes:
6. a restatement of the main points being made
7. a brief discussion of why your extended definition matters
8. (optional), a few suggestions on how we could better understand the item you’ve defined based on your writing

Sample Solution