1. REVISION
What To Check For

2. INTRODUCTION
ATTENTION GETTER/HOOK-Does your paper have one? Is it truly insightful?
THESIS=Your subject + your opinion (You should basically be critiquing a point throughout your paper-What is it? If you can’t identify it, you might be missing a central focus.)

3. BODY PARAGRAPH: STRUCTURE
Topic Sentence: Is there a link between each topic sentence and my thesis? If not, you need to consider revising the thesis and/or the topic sentences.
Concrete Detail: A fact should follow the topic sentence. This fact could be from the novel OR it might be from an article/ebook that you’ve read analyzing the piece.

4. BODY PARAGRAPH CONT…
Quote: Prove what you are saying by backing it up with either a direct quote from the novel OR providing a direct quote from the article/ebook that provided analysis.
*Do not use a quote that is excessively long. 10words or less
*Cite correctly: Refer to the MLA format sheet & ask if you have questions!!!
INTEGRATE Quotes (see next slide for example)

5. Body Paragraph Cont…
INTEGRATION OF QUOTES EXAMPLE:
You essentially want to either introduce the quote or lead out of it with your own words (your own analysis of whatever evidence you are using). If you can DO BOTH.
EXAMPLE:According to some, dreams express "profound aspects of personality" (Foulkes 184), though others disagree.
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6. MORE EXAMPLES: INTEGRATED QUOTES
According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express "profound aspects of personality" (184).
In "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Thoreau states directly his purpose for going into the woods: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” (84).

7. BODY PARAGRAPH: COMMENTARY
You should never have more quote(s) in a paragraph than commentary.
Make sure you are using your quotes to support YOUR OWN analysis of the material.
Avoid summary; if you explain “what”, then also explain “SO what”. (Why does that information matter? What does it mean? Why do we care?) 7

8. BODY PARAGRAPH: Transition
This can either close out the paragraph you just finished…
OR it can provide a link between the idea in the finished paragraph and the one you are about to start. 8

9. Remember…
Your body paragraphs don’t have to follow this exact order, however…
Check to be sure that each of the elements is SOMEWHERE in the paragraph.
Doing so will ensure you have created an original paragraph with analysis rather than pure summary. 9

10. BODY PARAGRAPH: Check for continuity
For each body paragraph, write a sentence out to the side summarizing what it is saying/arguing.
If you can link each of the summaries back to the point you make in your thesis, then you are on track.
If not, try to find continuity in what you said in each paragraph. Reword your thesis to match the concept expressed in the body paragraphs. 10

11. CONCLUSION
Make sure your conclusion is in line with your introduction AND thesis.
It should not merely reword the introduction & thesis though.
Close the research paper by reiterating the idea you argued through your thesis at the beginning of the paper, but try to do this in an original way.
The conclusion should also be ANALYSIS, not summary. 11