Essay Structure Review

What is an Essay?

Check off all of the parts of an essay

• Introduction

• Body Paragraph

• Conclusion

In any essay, typically what is introduced in an Introduction?

• Starting with an engaging and interesting fact or sentence that is relevant to your topic

• definitions of any ideas that will be introduced in the bulk of your essay

• brief background on any person you will be referring to in your essay

• Thesis Statement

• AGAIN, and I cannot emphasize this enough THE THESIS STATEMENT

Well what is the thesis statement anyway?

• The "what, how, and why" of your essay

• Your main and overall argument

• Your topic sentence

• a concise and well organized set of claims that will be thoroughly explained and supported by your body paragraphs

What do you start each body paragraph with?

• a funny fact or excerpt from a book

• Evidence about my essay

• Topic Sentence

• just vibes

Check all of the transition words you see below

• Undoubtedly

• Furthermore

• Additionally

• Nevertheless

• Above all

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Is it okay to introduce new ideas and assertions that are unrelated to your topic in the conclusion of your essay?

• no

• No but with a capital N

• please don't

• yeah never

• sometimes its okay?

What is this presentation about?

• Basic Essay Structure

• Creative Writing

• Grammatical Errors