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Generic Essay Structure
Generic Essay Structure
INTRODUCTION
Read the question and decide what your main point of argument throughout you’re
essay is going to be.
Interesting thesis.
PARAGRAPH 1
POINT: say in one sentence; topic sentence *terminology*
EVIDENCE: from the text
EXPLAINATION: explore why you made that statement; why does the writer do this?
Zoom in.
EVALUATION: how does it make the audience or reader feel?
COUNTER: how could someone else see this/ alternative interpretations?
LINK: to the introduction made or the question
PARAGRAPH 2
Repeat
PARAGRAPH 3
Repeat
CONCLUSION
Sum up the argument and critical viewpoint.