1. First, state the point you see as CONVINCING or LESS THAN CONVINCING as your topic sentence in your intro,
2. The next sentence in the essay should be your THESIS SENTENCE in which you ARGUE WHAT YOU FEEL YOU BENEFITED or LEARNED ABOUT that you VALUE from this semester.
3. Finally, your intro will end with a third sentence that summarized three supporting details for your thesis. Nest, your six or so body paragraphs (two body paragraphs for each supporting detail) will EXPAND on those details, offer quotes and citations, and go into more detail.
Students;
Your choice of which two pieces to argue about and what your argument will be, as well as examples, is left up to you, and if you have a suggestion for a different topic, contact me and propose it to me. Call me on Fridays left in the semester to ask further questions.
End with an informal bibliography, and try to consult at least three research sources to draw on for additional quotes and citations, meaning in addition to citing the books, chapters, and lectures from the semester that you are writing about.
Your final is a full paper (5 to 7 pages, not including title page or bibliography. Write in basic essay form.
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Standard College Essay Form
Introductory paragraph
Topic Sentence
Thesis Sentence
Summary of Support (essay map)
-three sentences ONLY
-no quotes
-no rhetorical questions
-no statistics
-no footnotes
-no summary of texts other than in the topic sentence
-at least three supporting details in summary of support (essay map)
-three sentences are all you need in an intro (topic, thesis, essay map)
At least 3 fully developed body paragraphs
-one to two body paragraphs for each supporting detail
-each body paragraph begins with a topic sentence taken from the essay map
-expand on your essay map through developed body paragraphs (with quotes)
-use of inline quotes, block quotes, statistics, footnotes, citations, rhetorical questions, etc., all of which go into your body paragraphs
-examples, sub-topics, etc., all go into your body paragraphs
-comparisons and/or contrasts go into our body paragraphs
Concluding Paragraph
Restate your thesis
Summarize your entire paper
–two sentences are all you need in a concluding paragraph