Writing an Awesome Essay with the Stress English 9 Honors 18
August 2014
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Find out What the Teacher WANTS Break the prompt down into
individual parts This becomes the skeleton of your essay
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Dont Start with the Introduction! This is a great way of
stumping yourself ten minutes into the writing process Why would
you try writing an intro for a paper that doesnt exist? Start with
the first body paragraph
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Your Awesome Body Paragraphs You get to tell people what you
think Dont hold back Your name is already on the top of the page So
whatever you say Try to really mean it
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Conclusion Paragraph Is like the end of a 30 second commercial
where they hold the product up at the end just in case you forgot
you were watching a Hot Pocket commercial Hold up all your
arguments for the audience one more time Just in case they forgot
what they just read
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Introduction Paragraph Rewrite your conclusion to introduce the
topic Its easier to introduce something AFTER youve written it Slap
an AWESOME thesis statement on the end
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Thesis Statement Get out your skeleton of your paper Make a
single sentence that discusses all of those points 3 Steps Make the
topic specific Who? When? How many? Where? Continue with a
debatable phrase Doesdoes notshouldhighlightsignores Explain the
significance to the audience, proving that, resulting in, making us
doubt
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Quotes Great way to make yourself look credible and to add
length to your paper You need to talk before and after a quote Tell
people who youre quoting Tell people why they should care
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Citations! Fun fact: Microsoft Words citation maker is the scum
of the Earth Never ever use it Use the Purdue Online Writing Lab
(OWL) owl.english.purdue.edu/owl It takes about the same amount of
time to generate your own as it does to use a citation
generator
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MLA Format Deis 1 B. Deis Ms. Knox English 9H 18 August 2014
Writing an Awesome Paper
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Standard Paper Format Double Spaced 1 Margins Times New Roman
12pt font There should be no additional space after your
paragraph