Thesis and Context
The 5 Ws of context.
What are When, Where, What, Who, and Why?
The thing that makes the reader want to continue.
What is the hook?
Number of body paragraphs Mr. Rankin required.
How many are three?
The style of citation we use in English.
What is MLA?
The number of square miles Darrington sits on.
What is one?
Provides background information necessary for understanding your essay.
What is context?
What is a topic?
Each body paragraph should have this as its first sentence.
What is a topic sentence?
A shortened version of a citation that is found in your paragraphs.
What is in-text citation?
The mountain Northwest of town.
What is Higgins (Round Mt. or Seagalson)?
The sentence that serves as a road-map for an essay.
What is a thesis?
The place to explain what your best arguments were.
What is a conclusion?
Following the topic sentence are these.
What are supporting details?
The place all your sources can be found.
What is a bibliography?
The original proposed name for Darrington.
What is Darlington?
The maximum length of a thesis.
Two sentences?
Phrasing a thesis differently.
What is it to restate?
Each body paragraph must contain at least one of these, to prove your point.
What is evidence?
The more complicated name for an in-text citation.
What is a parenthetical citation?
The name of the famous logging games held in Darrington.
What is the Timberbowl?
The key component of a good thesis must contain.
What is an argument?
One of your body paragraphs can be this, but don't worry, you haven't been poisoned.
What is an anecdote?
Two of the three types of sources.
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary?
The famous gameshow host born in Darrington.
Who is Bob Barker?