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This document provides a summary of the SPAT analysis tool for analyzing writing prompts. SPAT stands for Situation, Purpose, Audience, and Task. It instructs the reader to identify the situation, purpose, audience, and writing task/format from the prompt in order to understand what is being asked. It then provides guidance on how to structure a five-paragraph essay response, including an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, three body paragraphs with supporting details, and a concluding paragraph that restates the thesis.

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Spat Intro

This document provides a summary of the SPAT analysis tool for analyzing writing prompts. SPAT stands for Situation, Purpose, Audience, and Task. It instructs the reader to identify the situation, purpose, audience, and writing task/format from the prompt in order to understand what is being asked. It then provides guidance on how to structure a five-paragraph essay response, including an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement, three body paragraphs with supporting details, and a concluding paragraph that restates the thesis.

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SPAT-ing

Your Prompt Analysis Tool


In each prompt-
Look for SPAT
• Situation: Event that causes you the need
to write. (on test you pretend)
• Purpose: The reason you’re writing: to
persuade, to narrate an event, to respond
to a text/ graphic/ chart.
• Audience: The person (people) you’re
pretending to write to.
• Task: The type of writing you are to do:
letter, feature article, editorial, or speech.
Situation
• Situation is labeled for you
• It’s always the first part of the prompt
• It’s a make believe situation that
hasn’t really happened to you
• It creates a need to write
• Underline key words in the situation
Purpose
Look for one of these in the writing task:
• Inform on a given topic(organize
information by using main ideas and
supporting details.)
• Persuade (Consider the needs/feelings of
the audience as you solve problems
and/or convince them. Use main ideas
and supporting details.)
• Narrate for a purpose (Narrate to
inform or persuade)
Audience
• Look in the writing task for the audience
• It might be an individual or a group
• You write to an audience for reasons stated in
the prompt
• Consider what the audience needs to know,
wants to know, and already knows
• Imagine what questions they will have for
you. Answer them in your writing.
Task: The Format
• Look in the writing task for the mode: letter,
feature article, editorial, speech
• Follow the format
• Letter has a date/return address, a
greeting/salutation, a body, a closing, & a
signature
• Speeches, Editorials, and Articles have: titles,
leads, bodies, conclusions
Constraints of
On Demand Writing
• Time (90 minutes *)
• Feedback (none)
• No collaboration
• Minimally authentic
• No sources outside of
your personal
knowledge on the
topic
The Five-Paragraph Essay
Paragraph 1: Intro
• Should have an engaging lead:
introductory technique
• Start broad and narrow down topic
• Should include:
• Background information
• Thesis Statement
Thesis Statement
• Indicates your paper’s topic
• Identifies your position/stance on the
topic-- your opinion in sentence form
• Provides an overview of the three
main supporting points that will
unify the essay
• Usually the last sentence in the intro
Paragraph 2: first
Body Paragraph
• Begins with a transition phrase and topic
sentence that identifies the main idea
• Has at least 3 supporting details
• Statements/Examples
• Reasons
• Evidence
• All of the sentences are on the same topic
• Ends with a transition sentence
Transition Sentence
• Usually found at the end of a body
paragraph
• Makes a clear connection from one
paragraph to the other
• Uses transition words or phrases
• Is logical
• Develops coherence in the essay
Common Transition
• First
Phrases & Words
• First of all •In addition
• Second •Also
• Secondly •More importantly
• Third •Finally
• Next •At last
• Then •Therefore
• Afterwards •In summary
• In the morning •In conclusion
• In the evening
Paragraph 3:
Body Paragraph 2
• Begins with a transition phrase and a topic
sentence that identifies the main idea
• Has at least 3 supporting details
• Statements/Examples
• Reasons
• Evidence
• All of the sentences are on the same topic
• Ends with a transition sentence
Paragraph 4:
Body Paragraph 3
• Begins with a transition phrase and a topic
sentence that identifies the main idea
• Has at least 3 supporting details
• Statements/Examples
• Reasons
• Evidence
• All of the sentences are on the same topic
Paragraph 5:
The Conclusion
• Restates the thesis statement in different
words (paraphrase)
• Reiterates the 3 main ideas from the body
paragraphs
• Conclusion technique:Leave the reader with
something to think about OR a call to
action
• DO NOT REPEAT THE SAME WORDING
USED ELSEWHERE IN THE ESSAY

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