Lecture 4.2.1 - Top Ten Tips: A Checklist

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Lecture Overview

  • Choose a meaningful title 
  • Brainstorm an outline   
  • Write in the present tense and in the third person. 
  • Write a clear thesis statement in one or two sentence at most that is your opinion but it can be opposed by others 
  • Start with a good "hook" to draw in the reader (a quote, a statistic, an anecdote   
  • Select quotations from the text in each paragraph that will support your points           
  • Be sure to avoid too many plot summaries in your essay          
  • Be sure that each point in your essay supports the THESIS and remind the reader of that fact in the conclusion of each Body Paragraph    
  • Summarize your main and secondary argument in the final conclusion paragraph using different words       
  • Make your last sentence a meaningful SO WHAT statement

These points are in Unit 4 - Resource Folder titled TOP TEN TIPS: The Literary Analysis Essay

Review the Grisha short story by Anton Chekhov ( can be found in Unit 3 - Resource Folder) that was assigned in the previous unit’s final lesson.

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