essay
Blueprint and Refined Thesis Template
- Introduction
- Lead
Refined Thesis Statement
Three Supporting Arguments (Your Blueprint)
- Body
- Topic sentence: Your topic sentence will consist of your Thesis and supporting argument. You must write out the entire topic sentence, as it would appear in your actual essay.
- POINT
PROOF: Specific example, cite an example (quotations from primary or secondary sources found here)
COMMENT: Explain how example (quotation) is relevant to your argument
- POINT
PROOF: Specific example, cite an example (quotations from primary or secondary sources found here)
COMMENT: Explain how example (quotations) is relevant to your argument
- Concluding Statement (try and link points made in paragraph back to thesis)
- Topic sentence: Your topic sentence will consist of your Thesis and supporting argument. You must write out the entire topic sentence, as it would appear in your actual essay.
1. POINT
PROOF: Specific example, cite an example (quotations from primary or secondary sources found here)
COMMENT: Explain how example (quotations) is relevant to your argument
- POINT
PROOF: Specific example, cite an example (quotations from primary or secondary sources found here)
COMMENT: Explain how example (quotations) is relevant to your argument
- Concluding Statement (try and link points made in paragraph back to thesis)
- Topic sentence: Your topic sentence will consist of your Thesis and supporting argument. You must write out the entire topic sentence, as it would appear in your actual essay.
1. POINT
PROOF: Specific example, cite an example (quotations from primary or secondary sources found here)
COMMENT: Explain how example (quotations) is relevant to your argument
- POINT
PROOF: Specific example, cite an example (quotations from primary or secondary sources found here)
COMMENT: Explain how example (quotations) is relevant to your argument
- Concluding Statement (try and link points made in paragraph back to thesis)
- CONCLUSION
- Restatement of thesis
Review the key point (from your blueprint)
Clincher/universality/recommendation/prediction, etc. end with a thought provoking idea related to the topic in a general and broad sense (similar to lead).