How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay

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How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay
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Essentials to Introduction

• Engage your reader
• Establish direction
• Get to the point

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Engage

• Stimulate and direct the readers attention
• Mention little know facts
• Offer thought provoking question

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Engage

• Tell a brief illuminating story
• Offer a little sip of what is to follow

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ONE FORMAT

• A universal comment
• A bridge or transition
• Thesis

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• Each one of these following parts could be one or
  more sentences.

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Universal (1 )

• A sentence that can be applied to everyone.
• A sentence in which a truth is well said and
• easily understood.

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Universal (1 )

• Quote
• Saying
• Anecdote
• Detail
• Statistic
• Dictionary definition
• Rhetorical question

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Universal (1 )

• Purpose
• To grab readers attention!
• Hook!!
• Big bang attention grabber!!!

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The Bridge (2)

• Is a sentence which links the hook, the big
  bang, with the thesis.
• It acts as a transition between two ideas.

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The Bridge (2)

• It needs to be creative and smooth in order to
  successfully link the two ideas.
• Appropriate transition and linking words are
  often found here.

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Thesis (3)

• Content
• and
• Comment
• come together

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Thesis Checklist

• Does my thesis reflect a limited topic?
• Does my thesis clearly state the specific idea I
  plan to develop?

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Thesis Checklist

• Is my thesis supported by the information I have
  gathered?
• Does my thesis suggest a pattern of development
  for my essay?

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Review

• What are the three parts which make up the
  introduction?

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ONE FORMAT

• A universal comment
• A bridge or transition
• Thesis

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Thesis

• Topic/Comment
• A
• B
• C
• Parallel Structure

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What is Parallel Structure?

• Using the same grammatical pattern in repetition
• Repetition of nouns
• Repetition of adjectives and nouns
• Repetition of verbs
• Repetition of adverbs and verbs
• Repetition of prepositional phrases
• Repetition of clauses

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Repetition of adjectives and nouns

• Environmental disasters, widespread plagues, and
  global wars are all indicators, according to the
  Book of Revelations of the impending apocalypse.

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Parallel adj and nouns

• Environmental disasters,
• widespread plagues,
• and global wars

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Repetition of prepositional phrases

• Environmental disasters around the world,
  widespread plagues in third world nations, and
  global wars in the near future are all
  indicators, according to the Book of Revelations
  of the impending apocalypse.

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Repetition of prepositional phrases

• around the world,
• in third world nations
• in the near future
• are all indicators, according to the Book of
  Revelations of the impending apocalypse.

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Repetition of clauses

• Environmental disasters around the world will
  immobilize our fragile and vulnerable
  technology widespread plagues in third world
  nations will devastate the weak and the
  helpless, and global wars will ensure complete
  comprehensive destruction of our world in the
  near future frighteningly, these are all
  indicators, according to the Book of Revelations
  of our impending apocalypse.

Environmental disasters around the world,
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Thesis Statement

• Proposition Statement

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Go to Thesis Power Point

• Return and next slide

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How to Get to the Second Paragraph

• Use transition words
• (from the transition word sheet)
• Use a word or an idea from the first part of
  your thesis

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Here is our thesis.

• IN THE PAST FEW YEARS THE BUSINESS OF CUSTOMIZING
  CARS HAS BECOME MORE POPULAR DUE TO TV, MAGAZINES
  AND CELEBRITY DEMANDING CUSTOMIZED VEHICLES.

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We could begin with the word PAST as in IN THE
PAST FEW YEARS

• Time words
• Before
• Since
• At first
• At first, cars were a method efficient and
  private transportation.

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How to Get to the Second Paragraph and all the
following paraqraphs

• Use your imagination!!!

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Remember!!! For all your paragraphs you need
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Comment

• Captain John Smiths bold, arrogant, and
  egotistical attitude is reflected in his diction,
  style and his subjects for discussion.

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Concrete Detail

• For example, he praises himself for setting a
  good example for the colonists, being fair and
  industrious to such a degree that the colony was
  now self sufficient. Furthermore, he says, of
  himself and his capture, When the news came to
  Jamestown, much was their sorrow for his
  loss(74). Obviously, he regarded himself in high
  esteem.

paraphrase
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Quotations

• Use a comma to separate your comment and the
  quote!!!
• Furthermore, he says, of himself and of his
  capture, When the news came to Jamestown, much
  was their sorrow for his loss(74).

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MLA

• Furthermore, he says, of himself and of his
  capture, When the news came to Jamestown, much
  was their sorrow for his loss(74).
• Q Quotation
• P Parenthesis
• P Punctuation

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Concluding Sentence

• Obviously, he regarded himself in high esteem.
• Finish off the idea for your quotes with a
  further reinforcement of some sort to solidify
  your observation.

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General

• In writing use your head and your imagination.

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MLA12 pt Font ..Times New RomanDouble spaced

• James Buffet
• Mr. Kolbusz
• American Literature
• 02 Sept 2006
• Captain John Smith Love Him or Leave Him
• Captain John Smiths bold, arrogant, and
  egotistical attitude is reflected in his diction,
  style and his subjects for discussion. For
  example, he praises himself for setting a good
  example for the colonists, being fair and
  industrious to such a degree that the colony was
  now self sufficient. Furthermore, he says, of
  himself and his capture, When the news came to
  Jamestown, much was their sorrow for his
  loss(74). Obviously, he regarded himself in high
  esteem.