1. Essay Organizer The Five Paragraph Essay

2. Introduction Use the ANT Format
Attention-getter: hook the reader into your essay
Necessary Info: background of the story/history, author’s name, title, brief plot summary
Thesis: focus of your essay and tells your reader what the essay is going to be about

3. Attention Getter! How do you get the reader’s attention?
Hook activity time!

4. Attention-Getter!
Your first sentence or two of your introduction should be an attention-getter
There are multiple ways to grab your reader’s attention
A rhetorical question
A relevant quote from an outside source
Scenario
Fact or Statistic
Shocking or amusing generalization

5. Necessary Information
Necessary Information includes:
Overview/history of topic
Major Points you will be discussing in your paper
Important background information

6. Thesis Statement
A thesis is a claim or statement of a writer’s position or main point that will be explored throughout the paper.
Your last sentence of your introduction should be your thesis.

7. Thesis Statement The foundation of all good writing!
Formula for a thesis statement:
Claim + Reason
The claim is the main idea
The reason is the support for the main idea
Therefore…
The thesis statement explains to a reader the main idea of the essay, AND the writer’s opinion on that idea

8. Thesis Statement A strong thesis statement…
Is specific, not generic: fits only your essay
Helps the writer by providing a clear focal point around which to organize the rest of the essay
Helps the reader by showing the main point that your essay will explain or prove
Is a roadmap to follow through the paper

9. Body Paragraphs Use the TIQA format:
Topic Sentence
Introduce Quote
Quote
Analysis
A body paragraph explains, proves, and/or supports your paper’s thesis statement.

10. Topic Sentence
Contains the main idea of your paragraph –what your paragraph is about.
This part is a claim or is arguable.
Topic sentence should be:
Idea
Reason
Argument

11. Introduce Quote Put the quote into context
Before inserting a quote you need to provide a transition.
Examples:
When Tom visits Tim he says, “(quote)”
At the beginning the speaker says, “(quote)”
Norman believes that, “(quote)”

12. Quote/Concrete Detail
Provide your quote/paraphrase/concrete detail
Paraphrase: your own version of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form.
This is the evidence: a fact from your research or an example from your reading that illustrates the claim in your topic sentence

13. Analyze
Explain to the reader the importance of the quote and how it supports your topic sentence.
You might start with “In addition…” or “Furthermore…” or “This is significant because …”
The basic structure of analysis is the same:
(Rephrase the evidence) shows that (rephrase the main point) because…

14. Closing Sentence Make sure each paragraph has a closing sentence.
This should re-state the topic sentence in some form.
It is also a transition sentence that finished one idea and transitions to a new one in the next paragraph.

15. TIQA Review Your body paragraphs should provide a topic sentence.
The rest of the paragraph should provide background for a quote or paraphrase.
Then you should provide that quote/example.
After you provide that quote/example, you should explain how it supports your thesis statement.
DO NOT tell your reader what the quote means; this can lead to a summary. You need to analyze!!