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Response: Does the essay respond to the question with a clear, specific focus?\u2028<\/p>\n

Argumentation: Does the essay use key details and show critical thinking?\u2028<\/div>\n
Organization: Does the essay begin with a clear Statement and develop ideas logically leading to a clear conclusion?\u2028<\/div>\n
Sources: Does the essay use Evidence to support, deepen, extend or qualify the Statement?\u2028<\/div>\n
Style: Does the essay use appropriate compositional and grammatical conventions?        …….” Bad writing “A Thematic Essay should focus on the theme. Every paragraph needs to be explicitly concerned with your thematic topic. This means that the evidence is secondary. So, the first and last sentence of any paragraph should include no direct reference to the literature: titles, authors or characters in the first or last sentence of any paragraph will be a deduction in your potential grade.<\/p>\n
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Never start an essay with anything approximating the sentence \u201cI will write about \u2026\u201d Good writing is good conversation. If you\u2019re talking to someone who prefaces everything with \u201cI am going to say something now,\u201d you\u2019d get frustrated. Don\u2019t announce what you\u2019re going to do. Do it. This goes for naming your focus as well. If you\u2019re going to offer a reaction or interpretation of another piece of writing, don\u2019t waste a sentence saying \u201cI\u2019m reacting to the essay \u2018Politics and the English Language\u2019 by George Orwell.\u201d Work that title into a specific statement of your reaction.  <\/div>\n
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Never start a body paragraph with the word \u2018Another.\u2019 Body paragraphs are for piling up evidence in your argument, so they\u2019re naturally repetitive. Don\u2019t emphasize the repetitiveness. This becomes a slog to read. Let your ideas flow from one to the other. This goes for lists too: pinning body paragraphs into painfully obvious structures like \u201cThe first example is \u2026; The second example is \u2026; etc., is excruciating to read.<\/div>\n
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These same principles apply to the phrase \u201cI think that,\u201d or \u201cI believe that.\u201d Whatever follows those phrases can be assumed to be what you think or believe. Prefacing that declaration with a formal declaration of your declaration slows down your essay and tests the patience of your readers. I think that it would be best to eliminate any use of the phrase \u201cI think that.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Use rhetorical questions sparingly. Don\u2019t you find it frustrating when what you\u2019re reading repeatedly demands that you respond to something explicitly right then and there? Isn\u2019t this especially aggravating when it happens several times in a row? Wouldn\u2019t it be better to find them only very occasionally so that their effect isn\u2019t diminished?   <\/div>\n
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Avoid leaning on the quotation intro \u201c[character X] states.\u201d \u201cStates\u201d is a very formal word that is used in court proceedings but very little in real life. I know it\u2019s a word that everyone gets told in middle school is how you\u2019re supposed to introduce in-text quotations, but it\u2019s just godawful.<\/div>\n
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Use nouns and verbs. Adjectives and adverbs can swell out a word count, but often make your writing flabby and slow. Strong writing cuts to the point and moves on.<\/div>\n
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When it comes to essay writing, less is often more.<\/div>\n
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Typos are the equivalent of coughing in someone\u2019s face: they just show a lack of consideration.<\/div>\n
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In an era of spelling and grammar apps, any mistakes with either will cost significant points.<\/div>\n
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Always reread your writing to judge the argument and scan for errors. Reading aloud can help TREMENDOUSLY with the latter.<\/div>\n
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Use public materials as evidence and quote directly from them to demonstrate your abstract ideas in a socially understandable form. <\/div>\n
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Assume an informed readership, but help them out. If you\u2019re discussing a piece of writing, assume your readers have read it. You don\u2019t need to recall everything about it. Just point out the crucial details necessary to the point you\u2019re trying to make, gently reminding your readers rather than telling them stuff they already know.  <\/div>\n
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Anything that could be readily pasted into a Wikipedia article should be immediately deleted. Your job is not to report elementary facts. If you\u2019re writing an essay about Shakespeare\u2019s Macbeth and you find yourself typing out \u201cWilliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564,\u201d please stop. An essay is an opinion. Your job is to offer that opinion, not facts only marginally related to that opinion. Good writing offers something absolutely original. Facts can be found on Wikipedia; the only place to find your interpretation of something is your essay. Lean into that selling point.<\/div>\n
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Consider these previous two points very carefully when starting a new paragraph. Every new paragraph is a gut-check for your reader to wonder \u201cDo I really want to keep reading?\u201d If your new paragraph begins with nothing new for your reader to learn, there\u2019s no incentive to keep going. If you\u2019re discussing a piece of writing in your essay that your reader has also read, just repeating something about it or summarizing the reading can be very monotonous and it telegraphs to your reader that nothing new should be expected.<\/div>\n
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Aside from a very specific kind of personal essay, never \u2018think out loud in writing.\u2019 A good piece of writing begins at the end of a thought process rather than recording that process as it develops. The Introduction to your essay is actually the Conclusion you\u2019ve reached after thinking about and researching your topic. The Conclusion of your essay is just a restatement of the Introduction, reminding your readers of the point you\u2019re making and demonstrating how everything you\u2019ve been writing adds up to this one result.<\/div>\n
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Avoid starting a Concluding paragraph with any derivation of the phrase \u201cIn conclusion,\u201d or \u201cAll in all.\u201d Yes, a Conclusion is where you step back from the narrow specifics of the body paragraphs to incorporate them into your broader argument. Do that with the substance of your discussion rather than empty phrases like \u2018In conclusion\u2019 and \u2018All in all.\u2019 There is no instance where deleting those phrases doesn\u2019t make the resulting piece of writing immediately and dramatically better.<\/div>\n
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