I-Search Part 3: Body Paragraphs What to do and How to do it

Body Paragraphs: The Basics Topic sentence Evidence: introduced , Cited, then explained/ discussed Transition to next idea Example: First of all, social differentiation was very important after the tsunami for one group in particular: tourists. According to Carla Kweifio-Okai, the first people to get aid were foreign tourists. They came from Europe, the United States, and Japan. The help they received was mostly to get home, but also included water and healthcare. (The Guardian, 2014). The tourists are already wealthy compared to the local people, mostly employees at the resorts, so it is unfair that they were the first to get help. The locals, it turns out, needed help with housing and food in order to be safe. * (My next body paragraph will be about how the locals got – or didn’t get – help with housing and food)

Each Paragraph Should Contain: Topic Sentence 2-3 pieces of evidence AT MOST one quote (the rest should be paraphrased) YOUR ANALYSIS Transition/ conclusion sentence

Evidence: Quoting vs. Paraphrasing the EXACT words from the original text (be careful!) placed into quotation marks: While many agencies are afraid to give cash, “The importance of cash transfers, where survivors received cash grants to buy what they most need in the months after a disaster, was one of the lessons agencies said they learned from the tsunami” (Kweifio-Okai). In your own words (like a summary, but can be specific) - While many agencies are afraid that giving cash will lead to misuse of funds, it turns out that this was one of the things that survivors needed most (Kweifio-Okai).

Writing Analysis After each piece of evidence (or grouping of facts, if you have several), your analysis is key. Remember, this is not a paragraph about what others said, it’s about what YOU learned and what YOU think about the topic. Don’t forget YOUR voice and ideas  Example: While many agencies are afraid to give cash, “The importance of cash transfers, where survivors received cash grants to buy what they most need in the months after a disaster, was one of the lessons agencies said they learned from the tsunami” (Kweifio-Okai). Therefore, cash is a very helpful thing to give but it is not often available to poor survivors.

Final Example Topic sentence Evidence: introduced , Cited, then explained/ discussed Transition to next idea Access to shelter and food was the most important need after the tsunami. Of the $1.25 billion dollars raised, $229,000,000 went to food and $187,000,000 went to emergency shelter (Kweifio-Okai). Therefore, about 30% of the aid money went to where it was needed. However, the tsunami “added more than two million poor people in the five most affected countries” (Hagiwara and Sugiyarto). This means that this aid was not enough to keep people out of poverty. Since everyone needed aid – rich and poor – it is unfortunate that the disaster pushed more people into poverty. The poor therefore may need even more aid than the wealthy, but how would we get it to them?