Starting a New Paragraph
Punctuation and Grammer (Yay!)
Body paragraph outline
Conclusion
Historical Analysis Essay
100
The Cardinal Rule when starting a new paragraph
One idea per paragraph
one idea supported by several pieces of information to back it up
100
A comma Splice is
A a grammatical error in which only a comma
joins together two independent clauses
100
Topic Sentence/Paragraph hook
1-3 sentences
100
What do you do with your thesis
restate your thesis in the conclusion
100
How many historical events should be included in this essay
At least 3
200
A " Bridge" in a paragraph
help your paragraphs maintain coherence and ensure you stay in line with your original focus
• Keywords or phrases can be repeated in several sentences
• Transition words can be used to link ideas from different sentences
200
The use of colons
1) Introduce a list
2) Introduce an appositive
3) Set off a second independent clause that modifies the first.
200
Set up historical event/trend
2-3 sentences
200
Ending your conclusion in a quote yay or nay
Nay
200
How many sources
Eight is great
300
A topic sentence should
Identify the main idea and point of the paragraph
300
Dashes! ( The use of Dashes)
Use dashes to set off important or surprising points.
300
Analysis of the event/trend
3-4 sentences
300
2 approaches to writing a conclusion
1) glass half full
2) glass have empty
300
Types of cited information
●Past failures contributing to the problem
●Past attempts to solve the problem (which were presumably inadequate or ineffective)
●Historical trends that influenced the problem as it exists today
400
A coherent Paragraph
1) each sentence relates clearly to the topic sentence
2) each sentence flows smoothly into the next without obvious shifts or jumps
2) each sentence highlights the ties between old information and new information to make the structure of ideas or arguments clear to the reader
400
Active Voice and passive voice
Active:
The grammatical the subject is the doer of the action
The sentence tells “who’s doing what”
Passive:
Tells what is done to the subject of the sentence
Uses a form of “to be”
400
Contemporaneous source is
news stories, journal entries, etc. that were written around the same time that an event happened
400
A Concluding Device
A concluding Deceive is a final thought you want your reader to have when they finish reading your easy
400
When is this essay due
This Sunday, April 3rd
500
Elements of a paragraph include
1) Topic sentence
2) support for the thesis statement
3) unifying thought
4) Give the reader an idea of what the paragraph topic is about
500
Why avoid passive Voice
Deprives writing of vigor and is often
vague or confusing
Deprives writing of vigor and is often
vague or confusing
500
Conclude paragraph with
a bridge concept that helps connect to the next paragraph & reconnecting the event/trend to the present
500
Conclusion stratagies
reiterate the seriousness of the problem
engages the reader’s emotions.
sum up what we can learn from looking at history
500
History can include
anything recent that has happened before the present
moment. If you focus your history on more recent events, you will be able to establish more
concretely that the events have influenced the problem as it exists today.