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12: Essay Organization

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Learning Outcomes 

  • Write a thesis that summarizes the main point of an essay
  • Write a topic sentence that summarizes the main point of a paragraph
  • Introduce relevant specific evidence to support a topic sentence
  • Integrate quotations and paraphrases from other texts as support
  • Connect a new idea to a previous point or to the thesis
  • Introduce essays in ways that engage the reader in the specific topic
  • Conclude essays in ways that sum up as needed and point toward further questions or implications.

Colored wooden building blocks arranged in a pyramid with gaps between blocks and no top level.
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