Focus, Purpose, and Organization
This sentence in always comes at the end of your introductory paragraph and must include your 2 reasons
What is a thesis statement?
Textual evidence supports these things
What are your reasons?
What is text to self?
This sentence must come at the very end of your introductory paragraph. It includes your opinion and 2 reasons.
What is your claim?
What proper nouns need to be capitalized in this sentence:
mount everest is located in nepal.
What are Mount Everest and Nepal?
A brief story that is used to grab the reader's attention and must be related to the prompt
What is an anecdote?
You can use ____________ to help you figure out the meaning of unknown words.
What are context clues?
This form of elaboration includes references to other books or articles you have read
What is text to text?
A solid and reasonable argument that opposes or disagrees with your claim
What is a counterclaim?
What piece of punctuation is missing from the following sentence:
Along the busy highway the cars were lined up for miles.
What is a comma? ("Along the busy highway, the cars were lined up for miles.")
What is a quotation (quote) hook?
When using textual evidence, you must always make sure to include _____________ marks.
What are quotation marks?
True or False: Your essay should include more evidence than elaboration.
What is FALSE?!?
What is a rebuttal?
James always shares his toys.
Who is John (the subject)? and What is "shares" (the verb)?
These words are used at the beginning of each paragraph except for the introduction
What are transitions?
"According to the text" and "The author states" are examples of ______________.
What is text to world?
The paragraph where the reader can find your counterclaim
What is the second body paragraph?
This piece of punctuation is the main difference between a run on sentence and a complete sentence.
What is a period?
These two things should never be included within an introduction
What are your own opinion and textual evidence?
Taking credit for someone else's work or using someone else's words
What is plagiarism?
This phrase can be used to begin your elaboration
(HINT: The answer is not "This means...")
This transition can be used to introduce your counterclaim
What is "on the other hand" or "Some individuals may argue/believe that"?
What is 2 points?