To complete your Analytical Essay: Use your planning documentUse your planning document to draft a 650 to 800 word essay that makes a claim in response to the following prompt: - How does the author use word choice (denotation/connotation), imagery or description, and tone to convey their main idea? Thesis Statement:

In "Swimming: A Plan B Essay," Lauren Groff conveys a sense that suggests facing the environmental impulses that Mother Nature generates by adjusting perspective through connotation, description, and tone.

Supporting Topic Sentence #1:

Swimming in open water where there are no boats. She is alone. There is no way to predict the conditions. Some days the water is calm, and other days the waves are so large. The connotation of bravery.

Evidence for Supporting Topic Sentence #1:

The water itself is unpredictable: sweet and fresh and so clear she can see the snakes sleeping in the mud a hundred feet below, or so salty her tongue swells and her skin burns. (Groff189).

Additional Evidence for Supporting Topic Sentence #1:

Shelley states that Groff references "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot, which is a poem very much concerned with how to chart time, how to consciously live within it, and how to acknowledge it as something outside of our control (Shelley).

Supporting Topic Sentence #2:

Groff describes the strategies she uses to get rid of her fear.

Evidence for Supporting Topic Sentence #2:

She sings to herself, voice burbling underwater and transforming the lyrics to nonsense. She dreams, wide awake, of food, a whole smorgasbord just for her banana bread and cheese in this way, she fools the terror (Groff189).

Additional Evidence for Supporting Topic Sentence #2:

In Groff's interview, Groff finds that spending a prolonged period in nature strips away these delusions, as there are seasons and internal clocks in nature that quietly insist on the rightness of time passing (Shelley).

Supporting Topic Sentence #3:

In life, you can choose how to achieve your goals. There are many ways to achieve this goal. creates an inspiring tone

Evidence for Supporting Topic Sentence #3:

The same person who swims also writes and makes the writing into a kind of swimming. If I weren't a writer, I'd be an open-water swimmer. They are different modes of pushing toward the same purpose (Groff 191).

Additional Evidence for Supporting Topic Sentence #3:

Groff's interview says that the older I get, the more my own boundaries seem to be fading, which is terrifying and fascinating in equal measure. If I live to be eighty (if humanity survives that long), I'll be transparent and able to walk through my neighbors' front doors, not just look through their windows (Shelley).

Conclusion:

In Groff's article, readers will have a deeper comprehension of navigating life's challenges. The power of shifting one's viewpoint to conquer obstacles and overcome anxieties in the pursuit of one's ambitions

Draft and Revise the Analytical Essay Instructions and Model Purpose: The purpose of an analytical essay is to break down a complex text into parts in order to consider how the author creates meaning. In an analytical essay, we focus on specific parts of a piece of writing to explain how the parts contribute to the overall meaning of the text as a whole. In this way, you establish your own argument about the text and demonstrate that you can support your argument using specific evidence from the text. Assignment: To complete your Analytical Essay: 1. Review the model that begins on the second page of these instructions. 2. Use your planning document and your already-developed body paragraph to draft a 650 to 800 word essay that makes a claim in response to the following prompt: How does the author use word choice (denotation/connotation), imagery or description, and tone to convey their main idea? 3. Articulate your claim and support your ideas using specific evidence from the primary source and the provided secondary source. Integrate and cite your evidence according to MLA style guidelines. 4. Revise draft based on feedback from the Body Paragraph Peer Review Discussion Board. 5. Use Chapter 45: Essay Checklists from your course resource to edit and proofread your work. 6. Submit Analytical Essay