Crafting the Essay
This is the beginning of the essay broken into three parts: The Hook, The Bridge and Thesis.
What is the Introduction?
Asking this at the end of a thesis could make things messy.
What is a Question?
Ancient Egyptians made this from the pithy stem of a water plant to write on.
What is papyrus?
English author Mary Shelley crafted this horror story that, even today, people mistake the title to be that of the monster and not the man who made him.
What is Frankenstein?
Alexander Miles invented these in 1887, after his daughter fell into an elevator shaft.
What are Automatic Elevator Doors?
You need to craft this in order to get the readers attention.
What is the Hook?
Stating this in a thesis defeats the purpose of writing the essay.
What is a Fact?
These materials can be found in a store of the same name and used in the process of writing by hand.
What is Stationery?
Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for this novel, which has been both a musical and a movie, of an African-American teenager named Celie being raised in rural Georgia in the early 1900s.
What is the Color Purple?
Dr. Charles Drew discovered how to dry and reconstitute plasma so it could be stored for longer periods thus creating this place where doctors to this day can get plasma for emergencies or surgeries.
What is a Blood Bank?
You need three of these in order to craft body paragraphs.
What are Topic Sentences?
There are many things you can do to hook a reader in, but making these types of claims isn't one of them.
What is over exaggerated?
A small jar, made from glass or porcelain, that holds ink.
What is an ink well?
Suzanne Collins wrote this series of books set in a dystopia universe, that follows teenage protagonist Katniss Everdeen in her quest to win a brutal "game" of survival.
What are the Hunger Games?
Dr. Patricia Bath, an African American ophthalmologist. developed this treatment using her Laserphaco Probe, a device that uses lasers to precisely break up and remove cataracts.
What is Laser Treatment?
The most important sentence in your essay.
What is the Thesis?
Never put your thesis statement in either of these two places.
What are the Hook and Bridge?
This item filled with paper comes in many different sizes and forms, but its use is the same for anyone needing to make notes or put down thoughts.
What is a notebook?
Margaret Atwood penned this futuristic dystopian novel set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government.
What is The Handmaids Tale?
Augustus Jackson, served for twenty years as a chef at the White House in Washington, D.C. from 1817 until 1837, is credited as inventing a modern method of manufacturing this frosty confection and its new flavor development.
What is Ice Cream?
New York City's east river has plenty of these that join the boroughs but a writer only needs one to join the hook and thesis.
What is the Bridge?
Academic papers require a formal tone so using this would be considered unprofessional.
What is Onomotopoeia?
Hip Hop artists often mention using these two items to put their lyrics down before they record in the studio.
What are a pad and pen?
Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize a year after her novels release, which tells the story of a southern lawyer hired to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1936 Alabama.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
In 1966, Inventor Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband Albert L Brown contributed to a safer society with their invention of the first closed-circuit television system that paved the way for products such as Ring and Simplisafe.
What is the Home Security System?