Santa Barbara City College has a really great handout, click here, that you can use. I will have handed out this handout today. Try and use it to help you organize all of your essays.
Some notes:
1. The outline has different language (no PRE), but Topic Sentence (Point), Supporting Evidence (Examples) and Analysis (Reasons/Reasoning).
2. The outline reorders PRE, but that's okay. We've talked about that. You should feel empowered to reorganize the RE to fit in naturally with how your evidence and reasons play off of the main point.
3. Analysis is like the second meaning of E in PRE. Explanation. Where the outline slots analysis in paragraph structure is the same as where we have been taught to explain evidence: at the end of the paragraph, after the evidence.
4. Transitions: we have not spent enough time on transitions, but we have discussed very briefly having the last sentence in a paragraph also operate as a hinge to the next sentence or to have the first sentence of the next sentence have a transitional phrase that connects back to the last paragraph. These hinge sentences are really effective techniques to make the body paragraphs all connect to each other more clearly.
Great! This is a great suggestion to organize an essay writing paper. I'll do this approach and see the results. Many thanks, the website has many things readily available for students. Loved it and saved for more reference.
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