Syntax and Structure
When do you start a new paragraph?
When you start a new idea
In quotation marks
True or False: Your thesis should list off your main points?
False
Should a quote stand alone as its own sentence?
No
What do you include in your intro? In your conclusion?
Intro: hook, essential context, thesis statement
Concl: Restatement of thesis, main takeaways from sub-claims, the "so what"
How should a book title appear in your paper?
Italicized
A good thesis has 2 parts. What are they?
A central claim and a statement of purpose
What tense should your paper be written in?
Present tense
When do you want to use transitions?
Whenever you are moving on to a new idea, point, or paragraph
Where does your in-text citation go? And what is included in the parentheses?
Goes at the end of your sentence (before the period) or right before some kind of punctuation (comma, semicolon, etc)
The first identifying word/words of the corresponding citation on the Works Cited page (usually author's last name) and page number goes in the parentheses
True or False: You only discuss the larger significance of your argument in your conclusion?
False
When do you use a comma? A colon? A semi-colon?
Comma: when connecting a dependent and independent clause or two independent clauses linked with a conjunction (but, and, or)
Colon: At the end of an independent clause (usually used to introduce lists or mark some kind of "reveal)
Semi-colon: when linking two independent clauses that are not connected by a conjunction
What does a good topic sentence do?
Sources on your works cited page should be listed... and have a ....indentation
All of your claims (including your thesis!) should pass the what test?
The "how" and "why" test
A good writer will never make their reader do what?
Read their mind
Every body paragraph should have at least 3 components. What are they?
Evidence, Commentary, Relevance/Signficance
What is the difference between primary sources and secondary sources
How much commentary should you have?
At least as many lines as you have evidence and/or summary
For all of your demonstrative pronouns (this, that, those, these), you should do what?
Name your referent
* This rule also goes for any uses of they, them, or it