Argument Essay Guidelines

This is used to grab the readers' attention:

• Argument

• Claim

• Hook

Your __________ is where you tell what your essay is going to be about. It should be a clear, strong statement of your opinion. The rest of the essay will support it.

• thesis

• counterargument

• hook

How should your introduction be written?

• Hook, Thesis Statement, Evidence
• Hook, Background information/ explain the hook, Thesis statement
• Thesis statement, background information
• Topic sentence, textual evidence, analysis, elaboration, so what sentence

How should a body paragraph be written?

• Textual evidence, analysis, elaboration
• Hook, Background information, Thesis statement
• Topic sentence, summarize your opinion
• Topic sentence, textual evidence, analysis, elaboration, , so what sentence

How should your conclusion be written?

• Thesis statement, summarize the essay, concluding sentence
• Hook, Background information, Thesis statement
• Topic sentence, summarize your opinion, thesis statement
• Topic sentence, textual evidence, analysis, elaboration

What should you put in quotation marks?

• Your Name
• Your address
• Book and movie titles
• article titles

Where does the period go when using a quote?

• Inside quotation marks
• At the end of the sentence

You need to cite your sources in an argument essay.

• True
• False

The opinion being expressed by the author is called the

• rebuttal
• claim/ thesis statement
• evidence
• counterargument

The opposite viewpoint to the thesis statement/claim is called a

• rebuttal
• counterclaim/counterargument
• evidence
• claim