Writing for Assessment
A writing assessment gives you a short time to write in response to a prompt.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." —Albert Einstein
How can this quotation be true? As a child, you spent much time immersed in imagination, but now as a high school student, you've spent 13+ years pursuing knowledge. What's the relationship between imagination and knowledge? Write an essay that defines each term and tells how they relate. Explain Einstein's position but then state your own position, supporting it with logic and evidence.
To do so, you should use a shortened form of the writing process:
Prewriting (5 Minutes)
Answer the PAST questions.
Purpose? Define imagination and knowledge, tell how they relate, explain Einstein's position and state and support your own.
Audience? The reader of the test
Subject? Imagination and knowledge
Type? Position/argument essay
Write a focus statement.
Imagination and knowledge are like energy and matter: the knowledge is the solid stuff, and the imagination sets it into motion.