Body Paragraphs

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Body Paragraphs

• Tell me what youre thinking

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The Three Ied Monster

• Identify
• Illustrate
• Interpret

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The Three Ied Monster

• IDENTIFY
• Find a specific element in the text that supports
  your thesis.
• Thesis David Bottoms uses claustrophobic images
  of slavery, drug and alcohol use, and death to
  portray the loneliness and depression of one
  mans struggle for the ideal of freedom.
• Textual evidence of slavery images?

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The Three Ied Monster

• Illustrate
• Illustrate the elements place in the textin
  other words, quote the place in the text where
  the element appears.
• Smoking in an Open Grave a porthole filled
  with stars (Bottoms 8) and When the shadows of
  this life have grown, Ill fly away (6)
• Shooting Rats at Bibb County Dump let them
  crawl/for all theyre worth into the darkness
  were headed for (Bottoms 14-15)

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The Three Ied Monster

• Interpret
• Interpret its function. Analyze the specific
  elements of your thesis. Explain the significance
  of the text (and your evidence) to your thesis.
  Interpret the evidence and give provocative
  analysis of your evidence in terms of each
  paragraph element and the thesis as a whole. THIS
  IS NOT SUMMARY. The majority of your paragraph
  should be your interpretive analysis and not the
  actual cited evidence. If your citations make up
  more of the paragraph than your analysis, your
  paragraph is not functional. It is ineffective
  and incorrect.

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Another perspective

• Each paragraph should be made up of the
  following
• A claim or mini-thesis
• Evidence
• Analysis of the evidence and interpretation

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Body Paragraphs

• should be a road map of your thinking.
• should provide clear, concise explanations of
  each element in your thesis.
• should build a momentum in your paper like
  evidence for the court. (And so, as you can see,
  he is guilty!!!)