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Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson

Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson. Five Paragraph Essay. Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson. Body Paragraph. Topic Sentence. Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson.

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Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson

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  1. Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson Five Paragraph Essay

  2. Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson Body Paragraph

  3. Topic Sentence Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson The topic sentence oragnizes/focuses your body paragraph. Every sentence in your body paragraph should connect back to your topic sentence. topic. Body Paragraph • Your TOPIC SENTENCE should be the first sentence of your body paragraph.

  4. Topic Sentence Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson Firstly, Romeo is the protagonist of Romeo and Juliet, which is an important qualification of a tragic hero. Body Paragraph • #1) My TOPIC SENTENCE introduces the main idea of this BODY PARGRAPH. • #2) My TOPIC SENTENCE connects back to the main idea of my essay: the THESIS STATEMENT.

  5. Topic Sentence Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson Every sentence in your body paragraph should connect back to your topic sentence. Body Paragraph Firstly, Romeo is the protagonist of Romeo and Juliet, which is an important qualification of a tragic hero. The reader knows Romeo is the protagonist because he is the character that is most centrally involved with the plot. Romeo himself is responsible for the climax of the play, when he kills Tybalt in the streets of Verona (RJ 3.1).

  6. Transition Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson The transition is the word/phrase that segues out of the previous paragraph and into the next one. Body Paragraph • Paragraph’s #2-#5 should ALWAYS begin with a TRANSITION.

  7. Transition Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson Firstly, Romeo is the protagonist of Romeo and Juliet, which is an important qualification of a tragic hero. Body Paragraph • “Firstly,” is the TRANSITION. • It segues into the topic sentence.

  8. Transitions Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson • First • Then • Next • Last • Speaking of… • On a related note… • Not only does… • Consequently… • Even though… • In conclusion… Body Paragraph

  9. Example Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson The example from the text is the specific moment you reference which connects back to your topic sentence and ultimately supports your thesis statement. Body Paragraph

  10. Example Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson Firstly, Romeo is the protagonist of Romeo and Juliet, which is an important qualification of a tragic hero. The reader knows Romeo is the protagonist because he is the character that is most centrally involved with the plot. Romeo himself is responsible for the climax of the play, when he kills Tybalt in the streets of Verona (RJ 3.1). Body Paragraph • #1) My EXAMPLE uses a specific moment from the text that connects back to my TOPIC SENTENCE and reinforces my THESIS STATEMENT. • #2) My EXAMPLE proves that I read the material.

  11. Direct/Context Quote Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson The direct/context quote is a specific line of text written verbatim in your essay. ANY line from any text needs to be in quotations. Body Paragraph

  12. Direct/Context Quote Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson “I would the fool were married to her grave” (RJ 3. 5. 140). This quote from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is one of the most obvious examples of… Body Paragraph • #1) My DIRECT/CONTEXT QUOTE is written word-for-word from the play. • #2) My DIRECT/CONTEXT QUOTE should connect back to my TOPIC SENTENCE and reinforce my THESIS STATEMENT.

  13. Direct/Context Quote Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson A common theme in tragedy is when a character thinks they can challenge the heavens. Romeo does this when he receives word of Juliet’s death. “Then I defy you, stars” (RJ 5.1. 24). This moment proves Romeo is a tragic hero, because he is literally rebelling against the heavens/fate. Body Paragraph • Notice that I explain clearly why the quote I used was an appropriate choice.

  14. Citations Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson Citations are a formatting device the references the work you are quoting/paraphrasing. You will use parenthetical/in-text citations after every quote/paraphrase in your essay. Body Paragraph • CITATIONS are required in all forms of formal writing.

  15. Citations Essays 101 With Your Old Pal, Mr. Clawson “I would the fool were married to her grave” (RJ 3. 5. 140). This quote from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is one of the most obvious examples of… • #1) My CITATION appears after my quote in parenthesis. • #2) My CITATION references the work, act #, scene #, and line #/#’s. • #3) The punctuation of the sentence comes AFTER the parenthesis. Body Paragraph

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