The first paragraph of your essay. It should present the main idea of your essay and capture the interest of your reader.
What is an introduction?
100
The two main residence quads for first year students
What are massell and north quad?
100
These punctuation marks are used when you are directly quoting from a source in your paper.
What is are quotation marks?
100
Your proof and support for your claim/thesis. It comes from sources (such as an article, book, or website).
What is evidence?
100
The capital of the United States.
What is Washington D.C.?
200
This statement usually appears at the end of the introductory paragraph of a paper and it is the author's main claim or argument for the entire paper.
What is a thesis?
200
The year Brandeis University was founded.
What is 1948?
200
How you arrange the sources in a Works Cited list
What is alphabetically by author's last name?
200
This paragraph utilizes evidence and arguments to support the thesis.
What is a body paragraph?
200
What you should do to indicate that your beginning a new paragraph.
What is indent?
300
It expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs and is often the first sentence of the paragraph.
What is topic sentence?
300
What SCC stands for
What is Shapiro Campus Center?
300
Cite or don't cite?
Common Knowledge
What is don't cite?
300
This paragraph reiterates the main idea of your essay, or your thesis statement, summarizes the subpoints of your essay and should leave the reader with an interesting final impression.
What is a conclusion?
300
The first president of the United States
Who is George Washington?
400
This component grabs your reader's attention and is found in your introduction paragraph.
What is a hook?
400
The senior vice president for students and enrollment at Brandeis
(hint: he was one of the guest speakers who welcomed you on the first day of gateway)
Who is Andrew Flagel?
400
Cite or don't cite?
Someone else's idea put into your own words.
What is cite?
400
Each body paragraph should have these 3 components.
What are topic sentence, evidence, and analysis?
400
The name of the national holiday on July 4th / what are we celebrating?
What is Independence Day?
500
This is used to recognize the arguments made by the opposing side of your argument. This builds your credibility and shows you can discuss the other side.
What is a counterclaim / counterargument?
500
Brandeis students commonly call the hoot market in Usdan by this name.
What is "C-Store"?
500
The parenthetical citation for a work you are using that has multiple authors. The authors are Greene, Donne, and Keats and the page you are referencing is 79.
What is (Greene, Donne, and Keats 79)?
500
The problem / question you are addressing in your paper. It is there to show why the thesis is important or relevant.
What is a motive?
500
At least 3 things that a thesis should be (there are more but name at least 3)
A thesis should be...
a claim, surprising, about the main topic, limited in scope, specific enough, governing the whole paper?