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Revising Your Essays
PART II
Have Your Essays in Front of you: Do each one of these for each one of your
essays:
4. Thesis/Essay Unity Highlight your thesis Highlight each of your topic sentences
Topic sentence should tell what the idea of the paragraph is
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.
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.
interpretation
Topic sentence
detail
Parenthetical citation
Topic sentence
Quotes used are short
Present tense
6. Paragraph Unity Find Topic Sentence Does each detail from story support topic
sentence idea? Does each interpretation explain why the
detail is important?
Topic sentence detail interpretation
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