Effective Essay Support Strategies

1. Supporting Your Pointsorthe body of your essay

2. Support consists of :evidenceexamples,facts that show, explain or prove your main point or thesis.

3. Primary supportSecondary support

4. Each support should relate to your main point or thesis and should be detailed and specific. Give enough details to make the reader see what you mean.

5. Drop unrelated ideas

6. Select the best support points

7. Add supporting details

8. Write Topic sentences for your Support Points

9. Make a plan and arrange your ideas usingChronological orderSpatial orderand Emphatic order

10. Use transitions to link your paragraphs to help the reader see how the subtopics are related.

11. This transition may be a single word,a phrase,or a dependent clause that repeats or summarizes the main idea in the preceding paragraph.

12. Refer to the plan to write complete paragraphs that support your thesis.

13. Each paragraph should contain a topic sentence that presents a primary support point followed by supporting details

14. Essays have at least three body paragraphs

15. Which sentence provides more specific details?

16. Aunt Frances is an extremely superstitious person.A. She will not go out of the house on a Friday the 13th or walk under a ladder.B. She has a lot of unfounded fears that she has talked herself into.

17. 2.Although Americans and the British both speak English, they use different vocabulary.A. Common everyday items are named differently, for example.B. An American uses an “elevator” to get to her “apartment” while an Englishman uses the “lift” to get to his “flat”.

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