MEL-Con 1
The number of sentences in a basic Mel-CON paragraph
What is 11
What the E in Mel-Con stands for and the number of sentences.
What is Evidence, and 3 sentences
This is the first sentence of an introduction paragraph
What is an attention getter?
This should go in the upper right hand of your paper
What is my last name and page number
This is a sentence that is incomplete
What is a fragment?
What the M in Mel-Con stands for and the number of sentences
What is the Main Idea, 1 sentence
What CON stands for and the number of CON sentences
What is conclusion, 1 sentence
This is a type of transition that should never be used at the high school level.
What is a numerical transition (first, second, etc.)
The two acceptable fonts and their corresponding sizes
What is Times New Roman Font size 12 and Arial font size 11
A type of pronoun that should not appear in a paper
What is a personal pronoun?
What he L in Mel-Con stands for and the number of sentences in the total paragraph
what is Link, 6 sentences
This comes at the start of a body paragraph, before every piece of evidence and the conclusion
What are transitions
For formatting purposes this should be done at the beginning of each paragraph
What is a indent?
Name at least two things that need to be in the name block of an essay.
Student Name
Teacher Name
Title of Class
Due Date
This tool, built into google docs, can help with catching some grammar and spelling errors.
What is spell check?
This needs to be restated in the conclusion.
what is Main Idea and Evidence
What a Mel-Con organizer is used for
What is paragraph organization?
Name two things you must do when using a quote in the link section of your essay.
Lead into the quote
Put quotation marks around the quote
Include the in-textcitation
Where the thesis statement should be repeated in the conclusion paragraph
what is in the first sentence of the conclusion paragraph
These 3 things should be in your thesis statement.
What is the title of the work, author's name, and focus/claim of the paper?
What the 1st sentence of the link does
what is explaining the evidence
What 2nd sentence of the link does
what is connecting back to the main idea?
A page that does not count towards the page count and should be on its own page.
What is the works cited/ source page
Where the thesis statement found in the introduction paragraph
what is at the end of the introduction paragraph
When a sentence is longer than 2 typed lines it is called this
What is run-on sentence?