1. Essay Writing Review

2. Thesis Statement Should be in the introduction paragraph Outlines your entire essay Contains the topic, opinion, and support Most effective as the last sentence in the intro

3. Thesis Statement Three easy steps to building a thesis: –#1 – Identify the topic ____________ –#2 – state your opinion ____________ –#3 – Give supporting details (Why?) ____________, ______________, ____________________

4. Thesis Statement “Retailers defend the approach to hiring based on image as necessary and smart, and industry experts see the point. ‘In today’s competitive retail environment, the methods have changed for capturing the consumer’s awareness of brand,” said Marshal Cohen, a senior industry analyst with the NPD Group, a market research firm. “Being able to find a brand enhancer, or what I call a walking billboard, is critical. It’s really important to create an environment that’s enticing to the community, particularly with the younger, fashionable market. A guy wants to go hang out in a store where he can see good looking gals.” Explain Cohen’s argument and discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with his analysis. Support your position, providing reasons and examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

5. Thesis Statement Here is an example: #1 – Identify the topic ____________ #2 – state your opinion ____________ #3 – Give supporting details (Why?) ____________, ______________, ____________________ EX: Hiring based on image is wrong because it is a form of discrimination, it is an immoral practice, and it violates our United States constitution. Hiring based on image Is wrong It is discriminationIt is immoralIt goes against the constitution

6. MLA In-text You must give credit to the original source. When citing an author of a novel – (author’s last name page #) EX: John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck 13) Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3). Notice no punctuation!!! Note where the punctuation goes

7. MLA If the work you are citing to has no author, use an abbreviated version of the work's title. (For non-print sources, such as films, TV series, pictures, or other media, or electronic sources, include the name that begins the entry in the Works Cited page). For example: An anonymous Wordsworth critic once argued that his poems were too emotional ("Wordsworth Is a Loser" 100).

8. MLA Book with one author: Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. More than one: First author name is written last name first; subsequent author names are written first name, last name. Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn, 2000.

9. MLA Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style. Always include as much information as is available/applicable: –Author and/or editor names –Name of the database, or title of project, book, article –Any version numbers available –Date of version, revision, or posting –Publisher information –Date you accessed the material –Electronic address, printed between carets ([ ]).

10. MLA Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Newspaper is the same with the following exceptions: –Include the section letter with the page number. –Include the city and state in brackets if the paper is local. [Moorpark, Ca.]

11. Tense Generally speaking, you should write in the present tense when discussing literature. When an event takes place in the historical past or outside the time frame of the story, then you would use the past tense. This is not tense-switching, but necessary (although sometimes awkward!).

12. Tense Historical past tense Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter in 1850. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the founders of the early feminist movement.

13. Tense Literary present tense Hawthorne describes Hester and Pearl in vivid detail. Hester refuses to identify the father of her child. In "The Declaration of Sentiments," Stanton and her co-authors argue that equality should apply to women as well as men.

14. Tense Outside the frame of the story (past tense) Hester was born in England and arrived in America as an adult.

15. No – No words Do not use 2 nd person (you) Avoid contractions (don’t, couldn’t) Do not use “A lot” Avoid slang unless using a direct quotation Do not use profanity