Based on your handwritten cluster (Daily Writing 2.1), compose an essay that describes and provides examples and illustrations of your cluster ideas about the problems associated with the fast-food drive-thru line.
Based on your handwritten cluster (Daily Writing 2.1), compose an essay that describes and provides examples and illustrations of your cluster ideas about the problems associated with the fast-food drive-thru line. The essay must include a minimum of an introductory paragraph, at least two supporting paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
Compose this essay in the third-person point of view of a short-tempered construction worker who is almost late for work in the following scenario:
At the Chicken Lickin’ fast-food restaurant near Slicklizzard, Alabama, a construction worker waits in the drive-thru line behind a pickup truck containing two Slobovian tourists legally visiting (with a visa) from the country of Slobovia, and the two Slobovians cannot decide what food to order. Their truck, with smoking exhaust, has occupied the space at the drive-thru speaker box for almost ten minutes, and numerous problems have ensued while the Slobovian driver attempts to place an enormous order of Spicy Kickin’ Wings and other menu items.
The construction worker is concerned about being late for work. Name (given name) the third person in each paragraph.
For help with third-person point of view, watch and listen to the video below.
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For additional help with point of view, review p. 304 in The College Writer Sixth Edition and click here.
For a list that identifies and categorizes pronouns by person (first person, second person, third person), visit the course “Handouts” section or click here.
Always avoid forms of the second person “you” unless quoting.
For correct formatting, click here to review the EH 1301 model essay.
In your essay include at least three of the following senses: taste, smell, vision, hearing, touch. Do not simply use the sensory words, show the sensory words. For example, compare the sentences below.
Incorrect Example: Incorrect (telling): Jolene saw one window in the kitchen, felt the edge of the box when she lifted the lid, then looked at the contents.
Correct Example: Correct (showing): As Jolene struggled to open the lid of the battered box that arrived in Tuesday’s mail, she rubbed her thumb along the cardboard edges while the light from the only window in the kitchen exposed the box’s secrets.
As a matter of clarification, do not use forms of the following words in the essay: hear, feel, touch, taste, see, look, smell. Instead, use sensory details like in Example 2 above.
