D raft Your Essay

1. Draft Your Essay • Body Paragraph 1—what she says and does: Explain how Miss Strangeworth’s personality is shaped by what she does and says • Topic Sentence (contains strong opinion (precise adjective) that supports thesis statement) • Chunk 1 (start with introducing new information transition) • at least one cited EVIDENCE (quote) from the story along with your SUPPORT explaining how/why that example emphasizes Miss Strangeworth’s personality. • Chunk 2 (start with adding information transition) • at least one more cited EVIDENCE (quote) from the story along with your SUPPORT explaining how/why that example emphasizes Miss Strangeworth’s personality. • Concluding Sentence (start with concluding transition; rephrase the topic sentence with new diction)

2. Draft Your Essay • Body Paragraph 2—What the narrator states: Explain how Miss Strangeworth’s personality is shaped by what the narrator states • Topic Sentence (contains strong opinion that supports thesis statement) • Chunk 1 (start with introducing new information transition) • at least one cited EVIDENCE (quote) from the story along with your SUPPORT explaining how/why that example emphasizes Miss Strangeworth’s personality. • Chunk 2 (start with adding information transition) • at least one more cited EVIDENCE (quote) from the story along with your SUPPORT explaining how/why that example emphasizes Miss Strangeworth’s personality. • Concluding Sentence (start with concluding transition; rephrase the topic sentence with new diction)

3. Draft Your Essay • Body Paragraph 3—how the other characters interact with her: Explain how Miss Strangeworth’s character is developed by how others interact with her • Topic Sentence (contains strong opinion that supports thesis statement) • Chunk 1 (start with introducing new information transition) • at least one cited EVIDENCE (quote) from the story along with your SUPPORT explaining how/why that example emphasizes Miss Strangeworth’s personality. • Chunk 2 (start with adding information transition) • at least one more cited EVIDENCE (quote) from the story along with your SUPPORT explaining how/why that example emphasizes Miss Strangeworth’s personality. • Concluding Sentence (start with concluding transition; rephrase the topic sentence with new diction)

4. Draft Your Essay • Concluding Paragraph • Summarize the three main points of the essay • Rephrase and Restate Thesis (start with concluding information transition) • Reverse Hook/Closing Sentence (leave the reader thinking)

5. FOR FINAL DRAFTMLA General Guidelines/Rules IMPORTANT: Your grade will be dropped one letter grade if you do not follow these guidelines. • In the upper left-hand corner of the first page, list your name, your instructor's name, the course, and the date. Again, be sure to use double-spaced text. • Create a title for your essay. center the title. Do not underline, italicize, or place your title in quotation marks. • Double space between the title and the first line of the text. • Type your paper on a computer and print it out on standard, white 8.5 x 11-inch paper. • Double-space the text of your paper, and use a legible font (e.g. Times New Roman). Whatever font you choose, MLA recommends that the regular and italics type styles contrast enough that they are recognizable one from another. The font size should be 12 pt.

6. MLA General Guidelines/Rules • Leave only one space after periods or other punctuation marks. • Set the margins of your document to 1 inch on all sides. • Indent the first line of paragraphs one half-inch from the left margin. MLA recommends that you use the Tab key as opposed to pushing the Space Bar five times. • Create a header in the upper right-hand corner that includes your last name, followed by a space with a page number; number all pages consecutively with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), one-half inch from the top and flush with the right margin. • Use italics throughout your essay for the titles of works. • USE APPROPRIATE CITATION FROM TEXT