The Three E's of Persuasion
Elements of Research Papers
Grammer
Sentence Fragments
Miscellaneous
100
“According to Forbes Magazine, Brazil’s richest family is worth $28.9 billion.”
What is evidence?
100
The beginning of the paper where you setup your arguments. It often includes the thesis statement.
What is the introduction?
100
This part of speech is the action in a sentence?
What is a verb?
100
Stacy wept.
What is a sentence?
100
This punctuation is used primarily to separate three or more items in a series, separate introductory material from the rest of a sentence and between two complete thoughts connected by and, but, or so.
What is a comma?
200
"If we do not do this the entire country is going to be destroyed.”
What is emotion?
200
The list of your sources included with your paper.
What is the works cited or bibliography?
200
This part of speech describes the verb.
What is an adverb?
200
Although it was raining.
What is a sentence fragment?
200
These are the people who you are targeting with your persuasion for your persuasive writing paper. It is the A that goes with the three E's.
What is audience?
300
Starting to read early is very important; many children who are read to in the cradle to better both in school and later in life.
What is example?
300
The last part of the paper where you summarize your arguments and restate your thesis.
What is the conclusion?
300
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
I ran so.
What is a sentence fragment?
300
In a research paper, this is the sentence which sums up a paragraph and is normally the first sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
400
The warm, nostalgic memories of our own misspent youth tell us it is so.
What is emotion?
400
The citation that occurs inside of your paper to reference your source when citing in MLA style.
What is a parenthetical reference
400
This punctuation is used to separate two independent clauses and should never be used with a conjunction.
What is the semi-colon?
400
Why would I?
What is a sentence?
400
Name the error that prevents this from being a good thesis. "Indians fought over Alcatraz Island. Why do you think they would do that?"
What it is rhetorical?
500
One student noted that he actually lost a few pounds after soda was taken out of the schools
What is example?
500
The thesis can be described with this equation.
What is Topic + Theme + Impact?
500
What do you call the words or phrases that show the relationship between two ideas?
What is transition words?
500
The golden goblet sparklingly gold.
What is sentence fragment?
500
Fix the following overly-broad thesis statement. Being overly materialist will cause many problems.
What is "Being overly materialistc will cause many problems because you lose sight of what matters to you and you will struggle feeling empathy for others."?