Thesis Statements
The location of your thesis statement in the essay
Where is the last sentence of the introduction?
Academic writing is primarily in this point of view or person.
What is third person?
This kind of punctuation is used to show that someone else came up with the words being used.
This describes the tone of academic essays.
What is academic tone or formal tone?
The name for the way an essay is broken up or divided.
What are paragraphs?
The two types or structures of thesis statements
What are umbrella thesis and roadmap or listing thesis?
Using this shortcut key can help you search for or find words you commonly misspell or otherwise need to remove.
What is ctrl+f or command+f?
The name for rewriting an author's idea entirely in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
This person or point of view should not be used in academic writing.
What is second person (you, your, yours)?
Each body paragraph should begin with one of these.
What is a topic sentence?
A thesis statement consists of the topic of the essay plus this.
What is the stance?
These kinds of clauses cannot stand on their own as a full sentence.
What are dependent clauses?
The name for citations that go in parenthesis.
What are parenthetical citations?
Works cited entries are organized in this way.
What is alphabetically?
Each body paragraph should end with one of these.
What is a concluding sentence or link back to thesis?
These sentences are in the introduction and prepare the reader for the thesis statement.
What is background information?
These two things are needed to join two independent clauses into a compound sentence.
The name for citations at the end of the essay.
These kinds of errors can make your reader take your essay less seriously because they don't think you put in the effort.
What are grammar, spelling, and formatting errors?
1:3
What is the ratio of evidence to analysis?
These kinds of essays have thesis statements.
What are all essays? OR what are all academic essays?
This is a strategy for revising your essay.
What is:
- Read aloud
- Read backwards
- Talk it over with a peer and/or tutor, etc.
Each piece of evidence should be followed by this.
Words such as like, really, and very.
What are filler words or fluff?
Each claim chunk should consist of these three things.
What are claim, evidence, and analysis?