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?

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