Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Essay Structure
- There are no set formulas
- but
- There are certain guidelines
- PARTS OF AN ESSAY
- Introduction
- Fixed
- Introducing the argument
- Backgroung material
- Analyzing data
- like
- Historical context
- Biographical information
- theory or criticism
- Definition of a term
- Counterarguments
- can be
- free standing section,
part of the beginning,
before the ending
- Conclusion
- WATCH OUT!
- Readers should have questions you're trying to answer
- if they don't
- your thesis is an observation, not an arguable claim
- NOTICE some SIGNS OF TROUBLE
- summarizing
- Describing
- Paragraph openers
- "first", "next", "after, "then"
- Listing words
- "also", "another", "in addition"
- REMEMBER
- it's not about reproducing your sources
- but about
- establishing an argumentative structure
- WHAT
- Do you have evidence showing your thesis is TRUE?
- HOW
- Can your thesis stand counterarguments?
- WHY
- is it important to others?