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Five Paragraph Essay
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing
the words instead of being pulled by them. ~Raymond Chandler
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Introduction
Attention Grabber (Hook)
General Background
Summarize your points
Thesis
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Strong Openings
Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him a different reason, but we didn’t realize it until the day we killed him.
~Opening paragraph from Shattering Glass by Gail Giles
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Why worry about openings?
Remember, it’s the appetizer course.You want your reader to be engaged. If the reader is not interested, they
won’t want to hear what you have to say.
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Technique Number One
Descriptions of personal experience or use of anecdote or narrative
Make sure you allow the reader to identify with you and your story
You may refer to the story throughout the essay to provide examples
Keep them relatively short
As I walked down the street, a guy with pink hair and three nose rings asked me if I knew about the alien convention downtown…
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Technique Number Two
Interesting fact, statistics, or quotation They intrigue the reader as well as introduce your
topic
The person next to you has twenty-three forms of bacteria on his or her skin.
Children that watch three or more hours of television a day are four times as likely to become obese, diabetic, or suffer a heart attack as an adult.
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Technique Number Three
Open with a striking assertion The sentence is so “out-there” that the reader has
to finish the essay so that he or she can figure out what the writer is talking about
John Milton, Beethoven, and Socrates were all failures.
I have decided that I do not really have to pay attention in class.
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Technique Number Four
A provocative question Make sure the question is thought-provoking Make sure you answer the question effectively Do not run a string of unanswerable questions
together (the reader will expect you to answer all of them)
When writing questions, watch your point of view – do not switch to 2nd person.
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Technique Number Five
Use a rhetorical or literary device Analogy Allusion Paradox Figures of speech (simile, metaphor) Etc.
If I had to give my life a title, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest comes to mind.
(allusion)
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A few things to consider about your thesis… The summary may be before your thesis or
you may include it within your thesis. Thesis:
A + B = C Topic + impression/attitude = thesis This is the controlling idea to which everything
else in the essay should support.
Five hundred years ago, talented writers were encouraged to imitate the works of others – now such imitation invites public disgrace, professional ostracism, and lawsuits.
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Supporting your thesis:The Body Paragraphs
The main course! Use examples
Make sure your examples are specific Make certain that you are explaining how your
examples support your thesis Show, don’t tell! Only use information/examples that support your
thesis Use topic sentences to introduce each topic of the
paragraphs Use transitions in your topic sentences to link your
paragraphs and examples together Use clinchers to wrap up each paragraph
(summarize) – do not transition in the clinchers!
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Thoughtful Closings
This is the fifth and final paragraph, therefore the most important!
It’s the dessert portion of the essay Do not introduce new information – stay
focused
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Conclusion
Restated thesis
(different words,
but the same
impression)
Summarize main points
General statement that reflects insight