Today, we discussed essay format again. I am pasting the notes here that a classmate wrote down. When you miss class, however, it is hard to get what is said between the lines. I recommend that you also talk to a classmate.
Essay Stuff
Five paragraphs (critical/analytical essay)
the essay is about a topic, using a text as evidence
Paragraph 1 - introduction
Sentence 1 attention grabber (cause) quote/rhetorical question/statistic-fact/ definition/ opinion (bold statement) /anecdote (little story)
Sentence 2 - explain how the attention getter ties to the topic
Sentence 3 - Introduce the text (genre, author, title, overview)
Sentence 4, 5 and 6 - summary of the text as needed (sequential) to introduce the main points of your essay
Sentence 7 - thesis (an arguable opinion about the topic, that you will prove by stating and backing your three main points with evidence from the text).
Body paragraph 1, 2, and 3
Introduce a main point (should follow the sentences summary as presetned in the introduction)
evidence 1 (example)
evidence 2 (example)
evidence 3 (example)
explain how evidence proves main point (all in all, between five and ten sentences0 transistion to next body paragraph (see page 70 in Fit to Print).
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