Friday, February 20, 2009

Expository Essay Guidelines...

Please check your post from yesterday and make sure your essay on "A Skill Everyone Needs," follows the format below. Since it was an expository essay, it's important to make sure you've followed the guidelines below. Good luck revising! When you're done editing yesterday's post, you can go ahead and publish it again.

Introduction
• Hooks the reader and captures his or her attention
• Contains the topic sentence of the essay
• Briefly states 3 or more main ideas which will be
explained in body of paper

Body
• Longest section of the essay
• Contains 3 or more fully developed paragraphs
(one paragraph to support each main idea stated in
the introduction)
• Each paragraph contains a topic sentence and at
least 4 to 5 supporting detail sentences
• Transition words and phrases help move reader
from one idea to the next (Ex: also, in addition,
another reason, etc.)

Conclusion
• Brings closure to the essay
• Briefly restates 3 the main ideas (without repeating
the exact words in the introduction)
• May end with strong statement or an appeal to the
emotions

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