Body Paragraphs conclusion TIQA Your body paragraphs should
Body Paragraphs + conclusion
TIQA • Your body paragraphs should provide a topic sentence. The rest of the paragraph should provide context for a quote or a paraphrase example. Then you should provide that example. After you provide that example, you should explain how it supports your thesis statement. DO NOT merely tell your reader what the quote means; this can lead to summary. You need to analyze.
TIQA Explained • Topic sentence Introduce quote: put the quote into context. Quote: provide your quote Analyze: explain to the reader the importance of the quote and how it supports your topic sentence. • Transition sentence: transition from the first example to your second example. Introduce quote: introduce your second piece of evidence. Quote: provide your second quote. Analyze: analyze your second quotes, and if possible, tie the two pieces of evidence together to make a larger argument.
Topic Sentence=Topic + Limiting Idea Examples: • 1. Fortunato is easily duped into his own murder because of a blinding sense of pride. Topic = Fortunato Limiting Idea = blind sense of pride (and how this makes him vulnerable). • 2. Because Madame Louisel is superficial, she misses the deeper appreciation of most things in her life. Topic = Madame Louisel Limiting Idea = superficiality
TIQA topic sentence + Introduce Quote • Example: • Topic Sentence: In her school without walls, Miss Moore provides a hands-on education that forces the students to discover new knowledge. • Introduce Quote: After sitting around for a while in the impoverished neighborhood, Miss Moore tells her students to get into a cab, which delivers them to the
Quote + Analysis • Quote: "hands [Sylvia] a five dollar bill and tells [her] to calculate 10 percent tip for the driver" (2). Analysis: Miss Moore uses the cab ride as a teachable moment. This is a sign of a great teacher. Miss Moore does more for Sylvia in those few moments than probably most of Sylvia's math teachers at school. Typically American education assumes that knowledge can be jammed into a student's mind. Miss Moore provides a practical basis for the knowledge and allows the student to come to it on her own.
Transition • Transition: Using teachable moments and hands-on education works for Miss Moore more effectively when she applies these teaching strategies to greater life lessons, such as the lesson on dispelling the American dream.
Conclusion • Your conclusion should not merely be a summary. Rather, it should restate and reemphasize your thesis. It should show the importance of the analysis that you have been making in the paper. You should also try to provide a clincher, which might come back to your attention-getter.
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