We concluded that we all like to collect money and then the student had a fairly good start at completing the essay. We discussed brainstorming and the easy application of it. We stressed the fact that this would prepare students for whatever topic they encountered during the GED essay. We practiced brainstorming m groups and individually with marked improvement. Therefore, brainstorming has become as vital to the essay as capitalization and sentence structure.
Organization is the next area of concern.
Some students have a tendency to be either a little lazy in recording details and facts or they have assumed that the reader has the same knowledge they possess. This problem can be addressed by pointing out to the student that the reader may not have a shred of knowledge about the topic in question and the student should consider this when writing an essay. For example, a young man wrote about the first deer he killed. It was to be a descriptive essay on a topic about a memorable event. The student did well in describing the weather and landscape but failed to describe the apparent joy and excitement of the kill.