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Revising Your Essays PART II

Revising Your Essays PART II. Have Your Essays in Front of you: Do each one of these for each one of your essays:

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Revising Your Essays

PART II

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Have Your Essays in Front of you: Do each one of these for each one of your

essays:

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4. Thesis/Essay Unity Highlight your thesis Highlight each of your topic sentences

Topic sentence should tell what the idea of the paragraph is

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5. Organization: Reverse Outline

Must be unified; write each topic sentence (TS)

Does each TS extend the thesis idea? Do all together provide good idea of what

essay will argue?

Write a topic sentence for each paragraph if one is missing. All ideas of paragraph must go back to that idea.

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Thesis: This hopelessness can be traced in the light imagery.

TS1: a trace of hope for the couple exists (some light)

TS2: the man consciously chooses to give up faith that their relationship will succeed.

TS3: As the light weakens, the civility between the parents diminishes

Conclusion: The light imagery of the story demonstrates that all hope for the couple vanishes.

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interpretation

Topic sentence

detail

Parenthetical citation

Topic sentence

Quotes used are short

Present tense

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6. Paragraph Unity Find Topic Sentence Does each detail from story support topic

sentence idea? Does each interpretation explain why the

detail is important?

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Topic sentence detail interpretation

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