Essay Components
This is a classroom, not a cafeteria - avoid using this formulaic structure to write your college-level papers
What is the hamburger structure?
This genre of essay asks the writer to utilize close-reading techniques to analyze a work of literature, such as a poem or short story
What is literary analysis?
These two things go at the topic right corner of every page of your essay
What is your last name and the page number?
An effective thesis statement should be these three things
What is concise, coherent, and disputable?
This genre of essay usually involves a narrative reflection on how the writer learned a particular skill, such as reading
What is a literacy narrative?
This information appears at the top left corner of the first page of your paper
What is student name, class, instructor name, and due date?
This technique for analyzing specific moments in a text consists of three steps: introduce it, quote it, analyze it
What is the quote sandwich technique?
This genre of essay asks the writer to convince the reader of their position through the use of supporting evidence
What is an argumentative essay?
Write an MLA parenthetical citation using the following information:
Author: Alice Wong
Book: Year of the Tiger
Publication Year: 2022
Page Number: 65
(Wong 65)
Aspiring essayists should ask themselves this question when figuring out how to structure their essay
What is "What does my audience need to understand first in order to understand what's next?"?
This genre of essay asks the writer to engage in scholarly conversation by taking an informed position and referring back to what other scholars have said on the topic as a means of supporting their own argument
What is research synthesis?
This is good title for an argumentative paper about improving accessibility on college campuses
[multiple answers possible]
Rather than directly quoting more than three lines of text, essayists should do this to incorporate the text's main ideas without overwhelming the reader
What is summarize?
This form of academic writing reviews past research on the topic the writer plans to explore and is often included near the beginning of the article
What is a literature review?
Write an MLA Works Cited entry with the following information:
Author: Alice Wong
Book: Year of the Tiger
Publication Year: 2022
Publisher: Vintage
Wong, Alice. Year of the Tiger, Vintage (2022). Print.