Writing Center Peer Tutoring

When would summarizing your main points in your conclusion be particularly useful?

• In a narrative essay without a thesis

• In a three paragraph essay

• In a longer paper

• In a paper for which you did not create an outline

• In a paper that contains only one major idea

When you use the bookending technique, you _____.

• reference popular books in order to show others agree with your points

• relate a story or theme from your introduction in your conclusion

• use the same key term at the beginning and end of each paragraph in your essay

• use the same amount of words in your introductory and concluding paragraphs

• provide Modern Language Association citations at the beginning and end of each paragraph in your essay

Thomas is thinking about including a funny anecdote in his introductory paragraph. Which of the following provides the BEST reason for doing this?

• To throw his reader off-guard

• To present his three most important points

• To provide data that the reader could not understand in another form

• To help engage his reader's interest

• To sneak his thesis statement into the paragraph without the reader noticing

Where would you TYPICALLY expect to find an essay's thesis statement?

• At the end of the essay

• At the start of your concluding paragraph

• At the start of each body paragraph

• You would not expect the thesis statement to be included.

• At the end of your introductory paragraph

A writer would MOST LIKELY use a call to action in the _____ of their essay in order to _____.

• introduction; gain a reader's attention

• introduction; encourage a reader to consider all sides of an issue

• conclusion; change the nature of his or her argument

• conclusion; state a specific solution to an identified problem

• conclusion; let a reader know what is already being done about a particular problem

In a 5 paragraph essay, how many body paragraphs should there be?

• 3

• 4

• 1

• 2

• 5

Which paragraph should be set up like an upright triangle?

• conclusion

• none of them

• all of them

• introduction

• the body paragraphs

What does a strong thesis have?

• transitions

• a hook for the reader

• a specific point of view and supporting details

• topic sentences

• a short number of words

Which paragraph should have a thesis?

• all of the paragraphs

• introduction

• body paragraph

• conclusion

• the title

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What will help the essay flow?

• a thesis

• topic and closing sentences

• an interesting introduction

• no spelling mistakes

• a broad final sentence