Organization
This part of the essay should engage reader interest, bringing them into your essay with appropriate material that leads into your thesis statement.
What is an introduction?
This is the maximum number of outside sources, not including your music video, that you can use for Project 2.
What is two?
When looking at how a music video is pieced together and the rhythm its images have, you are analyzing this aspect.
What is Editing?
Which their/there/they're is correct?
He is standing over ______.
(Spell the answer)
There
"The Cure's video for 'Lovesong' is built on contrasts of dark style and deeply romantic lyrics, but why did the band choose to have those contrasts?"
The primary error with the sample thesis is that your statements should never be this.
What is a question?
These are the first sentences of your body paragraphs, mini-theses that state what the idea of the paragraph will be.
What are topic sentences?
This is the required final word count for Project 2.
What are 1200 words?
In the process of 'reading like a writer,' looking at any sort of text like a writer or thinker is primarily an act of recognizing and asking why these were made.
What are choices?
Which form of your/you're is used to mean 'you are'?
Spell the answer.
You're
This type of thesis claim explores how a video’s meaning or impact can be judged against its genre, style, cultural place, or ideology.
What is a claim of value?
Your thesis statement should most often be found here.
What is the last sentence of the introduction paragraph?
For the Project 2 essay, the first body paragraph after your introduction should be this type of paragraph.
What is a summary paragraph?
To engage in Critical Analysis, you must look at how its components function together, but also engage in this further step.
What is making a judgement or claim about the impact or value it has?
Which form of to/too/two means 'also/excessive'?
Spell the correct form.
Too
This type of thesis claim focuses on how the video works internally, the goals it has and how it accomplishes or does not accomplish them.
What is a claim of evaluation?
This part of your essay should not contain any new information relevant to the argument in your essay, but should instead offer a sense of discovery.
What is a conclusion?
Project 2 is worth this percentage of the course's final grade.
What is 20%?
These types of texts combine two or more of the following: words, static images, moving images, and sound.
What is a multimodal text?
Affect or Effect:
The policy will ___ many of those that live near water systems.
A or E?
Affect
Since your thesis statements are claim sentences, that are doing something, the most important words in your thesis belong to this part of speech.
What are verbs?
This is another, more technical term for an essay's structure: the way an essay decides to move from idea to idea while supporting the thesis statement.
What is a pattern-of-development?
Project 3 must be written entirely in this grammatical point-of-view perspective.
What is third person?
When considering author, audience, or purpose of a text, you are dealing with what?
What is the Rhetorical Situation?
My neighbor's cat never stays in ________ yard.
it's / its / it
(Spell the correct version)
Its
The most important quality your thesis should have is this, and without it you don't have a thesis statement, merely an observation.
What is disagreeable / discussable / arguable?