Chapter 5. Essentials_Video_Prompt

5.1 Lesson 5 Essentials Video: Prompt

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Lesson 5 Essentials Video: Prompt

Watch the video below to see how students like you have answered the assignment prompt and responded to the grading rubric.

Transcript

Students in order of appearance: Amanda, Deonta, Ansel, Timothy, Dan, Erienne, Nanaissa

Exercise: Integrate the video

Question

Write a substantial paragraph or two, with a topic sentence or mini-thesis, through which you respond to this video as you form your own approaches to selecting and refining a topic for your writing assignment. You might begin by identifying the moments that stand out to you the most. Which student videos seem to make the most sense to you? With whom do you agree? Disagree? What patterns do you find among the student sound bites? Which ideas were the most instructive or helpful to you? What surprised you? How have your own ideas about “assignment prompts” come into focus through the videos?
Tim describes two aspects of his experience toward becoming a college writer. He acknowledges some of the initial anxiety about dealing with a prompt for a writing assignment, and he admits that he’s made the mistake of failing to answer the prompt because he did not read it carefully. This lesson urges you to learn from Tim and the other students in the video to develop your own approach to responding to the assignment prompt.