Summary
Essay Structure
Cleveland
100

A shortened text based on a original text.

What is a summary?

100

Something in the introduction used to draw in the reader.

What is a hook?

100

The river that runs through Cleveland.

What is the Cuyahoga River?

200

The three main criteria of a summary.

What are brevity, neutrality, and independence?

200

One or two sentences in the introduction used to state the author's main argument.

What is a thesis?

200

The name of the Cleveland football team.

What are the Cleveland Browns

300

The thesis of a summary.

What is the author's thesis?

300

A word or phrase used to move smoothly from one paragraph to the next.

What is a transition?

300

The side of Cleveland that Cleveland State University is on.

What is the East Side?

400

Something that should not be in the summary.

What are other sources?

400

The part of your paper that you should include evidence where fitting.

What are the body paragraphs?

400

The year that the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA championship?

When is 2016?

500

Something that should not be the title of your summary.

What is the title of the original text?
500

The phrase used to introduce a quote or paraphrase, often mentioning the author's name.

What is a signal phrase?

500

The year of the famous Hough Riots in Cleveland's Hough neighborhood.

When is 1968?