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Introductory Paragraph:
Hook-
Main Ideas-
Thesis-
Body Paragraphs (same structure for each body paragraph)
1. Transition word or phrase that links this paragraph to the
previous one.
2. Mini-thesis (topic sentence) The arguable point that you will prove and explain in this
paragraph. Statement of this part of your argument (in
proving your thesis).
3. Context Sets up the quote you will use for proof by indicating,
through brief description of crucial plot events and/or
character details, where the passage comes from in the
text.
4. Proof - A direct quote from the book, properly cited with the
page number after it.
5. Analysis- Explains how the quote you just cited supports your
thesis. Addresses two or three specific words and/or
phrases from the quote, and explains how each of these
words/phrases may be interpreted to prove your point.
Focus is on close reading, symbol, metaphor, and
implication.
6. Repeat statement, proof, As needed, repeat the process of stating an idea, analysis supporting it with text, and analyzing the text.
7. Link to thesis If your analysis has not done so already, a statement of
how this points directly proves part of your thesis.
Body Paragraphs
In general terms, a body paragraph works to prove part of your thesis. added together logically, all of your body paragraphs (however many there are) will give and discuss enough evidence to prove your thesis as a whole.
In an English essay, each body paragraph must somehow include:
● A topic sentence (also called a “minithesis”), which tells what you will prove in that paragraph—
○ This should usually also include a transitional word or phrase.
● Evidence from the text (this could be a direct quote, a paraphrase, or a reference to a specific moment or idea).
● Context, as necessary, for the evidence—THIS COMES BEFORE THE EVIDENCE, and is a description of what’s going on, not a page number.
● An analysis that explains specifically and in detail how the evidence you’ve given supports the idea in the topic sentence/minithesis.
In a History essay, each body paragraph must somehow include:
● A topic sentence that states the theme of the paragraph.
● The theme should clarify how the paragraph relates logically to your larger argument. It should tie back to your thesis
● Use information from sources to support claims that you makedon’t use quotes to make statements for you. Use direct quotes sparingly; save them for especially revealing comments.
● Ideally, multiple sources should be used in each paragraph.
● Generally do not begin or end a paragraph with a quotation.
● Transition between paragraphs
Different Courses- Refer To Instructor Specifics.
● In a Science lab report, the “body paragraphs” include the following sections:
Maybe a Procedure section where you explain the methods and how the hypothesis will be tested.
Perhaps - Results section where you present the data in three forms: (1) paragraph(s) where the major trend and important data points and averages, (2) data table and (4) graph.
IllustrativeEssayRequirementsS172.docx
The Illustration or Example Essay and Continuing to improve and refine writing skills
Your Writing Assignment for this Module or for these weeks will be an Illustrative or Example Essay
The Illustration or Example Essay Assignment 2 Instructions
Chicago Style
3 pages in length including Bibliography
Double spaced; Times New Roman; 12 Font
2 Sources:
● Story provided in the Module is one: Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”
●Article on Current Issues Facing Parental – Child Relationships
Draft Due on the assigned due date in the syllabus.
The illustration essay uses examples to make ideas more concrete. Sometimes a single striking example suffices; sometimes a series of related examples is necessary. It is often called the example essay because it uses examples to support a particular point. These examples may be relevant facts, statistics, personal experiences, incidents, or stories.
Why is this type of essay relevant one might ask?
Examples provide great details for all types of essays; therefore, writing this type of essay gets one in the practice of using adequate development and details in an essay.
Read the assigned article and the assigned short story included in Module: ( Alice Walker, "Everyday Use", pp.268-274; current news article on parenting), and note that both the story and the article feature children whose understanding of the world is broader than that of their parents.
You will use the story, your general knowledge, and an article about current parental-child issues. You may use the ones I provide. I will place some more in the Module tonight. However, make sure that you review the documenting article handout that I will also place in the Module as the source must be documented correctly. I will also place a handout on where to find good sources, and how we can both document and incorporate them properly in this essay.
Elements and Language of the Essay (All essays)
An essay is a relatively short piece of nonfiction in which a writer attempts to develop one or more closely related points or ideas.
●The thesis of an essay is its main idea. Sometimes, it is implied rather than directly stated.
The thesis determines the content of the essay:
●Everything the writer says must be logically related to the thesis statement.
●A good thesis statement identifies the topic and makes an assertion about it.
●A well-written essay should be unified; that is, everything in it should be related to its thesis, or main idea. There should be no digressions.
●A unified essay stays within the limits of its thesis. Your essay is unified if you advance a single point and stick to that point. If all the details in your essay relate to your thesis and supporting topic sentences, your essay is unified.
An effective essay requires a good introduction or beginning and a good conclusion or ending.
A good beginning should catch a reader's interest and then hold it.
●In addition to capturing your reader's attention, a good beginning frequently introduces your thesis and either suggests or reveals the structure of the essay.
●The best beginning is the one most appropriate for the job you are trying to do.
A conclusion may summarize; may inspire the reader to further thought or action; may return to the beginning by repeating key words, phrases, or ideas; or may surprise the reader by providing a particularly convincing example to support a thesis.
The paragraph, like the essay, has its own main or controlling idea, often stated directly in a topic sentence.
● It should be unified, with every sentence relating to the main idea. Like the essay as a whole, the paragraph should be coherent with sentences and ideas arranged logically using appropriate transitional words.
● Moreover, like the essay, the paragraph requires adequate development—enough examples to convince the reader of the topic sentence.
Transitions are words and phrases used to signal relationships between ideas in an essay and to join the various parts of an essay together.
●Writers use transitions to relate ideas within sentences, between sentences, and between paragraphs.
●The most common type of transition is the transitional expression, such as furthermore, consequently, similarly, granted, nevertheless, for instance, elsewhere, simply stated, finally, to conclude, and subsequently.
●Pronoun reference and repeated key words and phrases are the other important ways to make transitions.
●Good transitions enhance coherence: the quality of good writing when all sentences, paragraphs, and longer divisions of an essay are effectively and naturally connected.
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Introductory Paragraph:
Hook-
Main Ideas-
Thesis-
Body Paragraphs (same structure for each body paragraph)
1. Transition word or phrase that links this paragraph to the
previous one.
2. Mini-thesis (topic sentence) The arguable point that you will prove and explain in this
paragraph. Statement of this part of your argument (in
proving your thesis).
3. Context Sets up the quote you will use for proof by indicating,
through brief description of crucial plot events and/or
character details, where the passage comes from in the
text.
4. Proof - A direct quote from the book, properly cited with the
page number after it.
5. Analysis- Explains how the quote you just cited supports your
thesis. Addresses two or three specific words and/or
phrases from the quote, and explains how each of these
words/phrases may be interpreted to prove your point.
Focus is on close reading, symbol, metaphor, and
implication.
6. Repeat statement, proof, As needed, repeat the process of stating an idea, analysis supporting it with text, and analyzing the text.
7. Link to thesis If your analysis has not done so already, a statement of
how this points directly proves part of your thesis.
Body Paragraphs
In general terms, a body paragraph works to prove part of your thesis. added together logically, all of your body paragraphs (however many there are) will give and discuss enough evidence to prove your thesis as a whole.
In an English essay, each body paragraph must somehow include:
● A topic sentence (also called a “minithesis”), which tells what you will prove in that paragraph—
○ This should usually also include a transitional word or phrase.
● Evidence from the text (this could be a direct quote, a paraphrase, or a reference to a specific moment or idea).
● Context, as necessary, for the evidence—THIS COMES BEFORE THE EVIDENCE, and is a description of what’s going on, not a page number.
● An analysis that explains specifically and in detail how the evidence you’ve given supports the idea in the topic sentence/minithesis.
In a History essay, each body paragraph must somehow include:
● A topic sentence that states the theme of the paragraph.
● The theme should clarify how the paragraph relates logically to your larger argument. It should tie back to your thesis
● Use information from sources to support claims that you makedon’t use quotes to make statements for you. Use direct quotes sparingly; save them for especially revealing comments.
● Ideally, multiple sources should be used in each paragraph.
● Generally do not begin or end a paragraph with a quotation.
● Transition between paragraphs
Different Courses- Refer To Instructor Specifics.
● In a Science lab report, the “body paragraphs” include the following sections:
Maybe a Procedure section where you explain the methods and how the hypothesis will be tested.
Perhaps - Results section where you present the data in three forms: (1) paragraph(s) where the major trend and important data points and averages, (2) data table and (4) graph.
IllustrativeEssayRequirementsS172.docx
The Illustration or Example Essay and Continuing to improve and refine writing skills
Your Writing Assignment for this Module or for these weeks will be an Illustrative or Example Essay
The Illustration or Example Essay Assignment 2 Instructions
Chicago Style
3 pages in length including Bibliography
Double spaced; Times New Roman; 12 Font
2 Sources:
● Story provided in the Module is one: Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”
●Article on Current Issues Facing Parental – Child Relationships
Draft Due on the assigned due date in the syllabus.
The illustration essay uses examples to make ideas more concrete. Sometimes a single striking example suffices; sometimes a series of related examples is necessary. It is often called the example essay because it uses examples to support a particular point. These examples may be relevant facts, statistics, personal experiences, incidents, or stories.
Why is this type of essay relevant one might ask?
Examples provide great details for all types of essays; therefore, writing this type of essay gets one in the practice of using adequate development and details in an essay.
Read the assigned article and the assigned short story included in Module: ( Alice Walker, "Everyday Use", pp.268-274; current news article on parenting), and note that both the story and the article feature children whose understanding of the world is broader than that of their parents.
You will use the story, your general knowledge, and an article about current parental-child issues. You may use the ones I provide. I will place some more in the Module tonight. However, make sure that you review the documenting article handout that I will also place in the Module as the source must be documented correctly. I will also place a handout on where to find good sources, and how we can both document and incorporate them properly in this essay.
Elements and Language of the Essay (All essays)
An essay is a relatively short piece of nonfiction in which a writer attempts to develop one or more closely related points or ideas.
●The thesis of an essay is its main idea. Sometimes, it is implied rather than directly stated.
The thesis determines the content of the essay:
●Everything the writer says must be logically related to the thesis statement.
●A good thesis statement identifies the topic and makes an assertion about it.
●A well-written essay should be unified; that is, everything in it should be related to its thesis, or main idea. There should be no digressions.
●A unified essay stays within the limits of its thesis. Your essay is unified if you advance a single point and stick to that point. If all the details in your essay relate to your thesis and supporting topic sentences, your essay is unified.
An effective essay requires a good introduction or beginning and a good conclusion or ending.
A good beginning should catch a reader's interest and then hold it.
●In addition to capturing your reader's attention, a good beginning frequently introduces your thesis and either suggests or reveals the structure of the essay.
●The best beginning is the one most appropriate for the job you are trying to do.
A conclusion may summarize; may inspire the reader to further thought or action; may return to the beginning by repeating key words, phrases, or ideas; or may surprise the reader by providing a particularly convincing example to support a thesis.
The paragraph, like the essay, has its own main or controlling idea, often stated directly in a topic sentence.
● It should be unified, with every sentence relating to the main idea. Like the essay as a whole, the paragraph should be coherent with sentences and ideas arranged logically using appropriate transitional words.
● Moreover, like the essay, the paragraph requires adequate development—enough examples to convince the reader of the topic sentence.
Transitions are words and phrases used to signal relationships between ideas in an essay and to join the various parts of an essay together.
●Writers use transitions to relate ideas within sentences, between sentences, and between paragraphs.
●The most common type of transition is the transitional expression, such as furthermore, consequently, similarly, granted, nevertheless, for instance, elsewhere, simply stated, finally, to conclude, and subsequently.
●Pronoun reference and repeated key words and phrases are the other important ways to make transitions.
●Good transitions enhance coherence: the quality of good writing when all sentences, paragraphs, and longer divisions of an essay are effectively and naturally connected.
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