ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Peanut Butter, Thesis Statement, Present Tense

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 224
• Professor: Benjamin Lefebvre

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Sets the stage for the discussion to follow. Introduce your text and focus in the first sentence. Do not begin with a generalization about texts, readers, or the genre of children"s literature. Draft your introduction last - you don"t know what you are introducing until the bulk of the essay is well under way. Your introductory paragraph must end with a thesis statement. Needs to be one claim that effective controls the essay. The claim needs to be debatable rather than self-evident. The claim needs to demonstrate real thought. It needs to illuminate the text and the topic. Each paragraph supports and develops one point. A clear paragraph structure ensures that ideas are as developed as they need to be and that they follow each other logically. Supported by specific evidence from the text. Analysis of the significance of this point and the evidence that follows. Parting comment about the claims made and the implications of the argument.