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.