You did it. You got through the steps. Yeah, you're not that tired.
To our review, whatever you do, don't forget our 2 Overarching Principles.
1.Go with what you know.
2.The more specific you get, the more sophisticated you get.
Steps
Now to a review of our steps:
Step 1: Brainstorm and choose two ideas
Step 2: Creating a thesis statement and topic sentences
Thesis statement:
Delete the wh question
Delete do/does or did or move to be, has/have/had/can/will/would/should
Add answer
Choose your vocabulary now
Topic sentence 1
Topic sentence 2
Step 3: Prepare and Plan your support
REVIEW
Example: Name + 1 specific situation
Explanation: specific facts
Examples: You have 3 choices:
1.Positive example
2.Negative example
3.Hypothetical example
Explanations: You have 3 choices:
1.Positive explanation
2.Negative explanation
3.Hypothetical explanation
Organization of support
Explain for 1 idea (4 to 5 sentences of support)
Example for 1 idea (4 to 5 sentences of support)
Explain + Example of 1 idea (at least 2 sentences for each)
Now, what do you need to do after you get your thesis statement and topic sentences?
Decide what your support will be for each idea.
Ask yourself: Do you have an example?
I.topic sentence 1
Example:
Name:
Specific situation:
II.topic sentence 2
Explanation:
Specific facts
Step 4: Prepare your introduction and conclusion
Introduction:
Choose the most sophisticated word or phrase for the question itself.
Give a description for that idea. You need two sentences of description before your thesis statement.
Conclusion:
You can give 1 sentence if you don’t have much time:
Just add transition for conclusion + your opinion.
In conclusion, your opinion
To conclude, your opinion
If you have a little more time, then you can choose one of the following and just copy from your essay:
Option 1:
Thesis statement
Topic sentence 1
Topic sentence 2
Option 2:
Topic sentence 1
Topic sentence 2
Thesis statement
If you have more time, then choose one of the topics and change the vocabulary.
Step 5: Edit for grammar
Please look to our next lesson and I will show you how to take an essay and edit for grammar.