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Template Sentences for Paper 1

Templates for the author’s main claim and reason

· The author’s main claim is X.

· The author reasons that X, Y, and Z.

· The author provides the following reasons for his/her claim: X; Y; and Z.

· Two reasons are given in support by the author. First,.…Second,.…

Templates for audience discussion

· The author’s audience likely consists of…

· The readers of the text are probably…

· The author appears to write for…

· This is evident through the ways the author…

· It appears as if the audience is X because Y.

· I inferred who the readers of the text likely are from textual clues such as…

Templates for the author’s textual organization

· The author organizes his article by…

· After he does X, he then goes on to do Y.

· Next, in paragraphs 4-7, the author…

· Finally, in his last section, the author…

· Perhaps the author organized his text by in order to .

· The reason for this organization is likely because….

A Quote Sandwich Model

Model for a “Quote Sandwich”

A paragraph that uses a quote, paraphrase, or summary, needs an introduction into the textual support and an explanation why the textual support is relevant to your argument.

It can be set up as a sandwich:

Example: (from Susie Park, a student of LING 281, Spring 2017)

TOP ( At the end of the article, Nelson states,

MIDDLE ( “You are Feidin Santana. You are CNN,”

BOTTOM ( in order to make a connection to the allusion at the beginning of the article.