Essay/Research

Introducing specific topic (subtopic) & outlining subtopics / arguments of the essay.

Deforestation & climate change [opening paragraph introduces your topic and the subtopics you’re going to focus on]

--Intro paragraph

--subtopic 1 paragraph [frame as argument—start paragraph with why that subtopic matters/is important]

--subtopic 2 paragraph, etc.

Leading paragraphs with arguments

ARGUMENT

EVIDENCE/EXAMPLE.

ANALYSIS OF EVIDENCE/EXAMPLE

--using your own sentences / ideas to start the paragraph and then shifting to the source/example

--leading with the scholarship / source in the opening sentence and then framing the paragraph with analysis of & further material from the source.

Opening sentence stating the argument of the paragraph

Shift to evidence/source/example

Close paragraph with analysis of evidence/source/example

Opening sentence that starts with the source and uses the quote / paraphrase to frame the argument of the paragraph

Shift to evidence/source/example

Close paragraph with analysis of evidence/source/example