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Learn how the LCEAF format (Lead, Clarifier, Example, Analysis, Finisher) can enhance your essay writing by providing a clear and organized structure for your paragraphs. Explore how to effectively introduce your topic, provide examples, analyze them, and conclude your ideas.
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What’s that mean? • Lead • Clarifier • Example • Analysis • Finisher
Format • When you write an essay, it makes the essay better to read if you adhere to a structure that the reader can follow relatively easily. LCEAF will be that structure.
Lead • introduces topic/main idea • establishes focus of the paragraph • takes reader in
Example Lead • Yorke’s use of powerful but simple words in the song conveys perfectly and hauntingly the speaker’s despair and the song’s investigation of inadequacy in the face of unrequited love.
Clarifier • reference work, transition from lead • forms a bridge between the lead and the example • sharpens focus of the paragraph • transitions into the example
Example Clarifier • Yorke continually uses two words in specific that contrast one another. The use and repetition of these two words highlight the song’s presiding message.
Example • quote • specific example (character action, piece of plot, important setting, etc.) • must relate to main idea/lead
Example • The two words to which Yorke keeps returning are “creep” and “special”. He places both of these words in the chorus, which enhances their effect.
Relevance • Your quote/example should be directly and noticeably relevant to the topic you have laid out in the lead and clarifier.
Beginning • Sometimes it’s easiest to begin with your example, and work backwards and forwards from there. • That way, you know exactly where you are going and how to introduce this direction.
Analysis • Analyzing your example is probably the most difficult part of this process. • Look at the quote/example, and see what it means. • Always relate your analysis to your thesis. • If necessary, inform the reader of the quote’s context. • should be the longest part of the paragraph • Fully explain your thinking.
Example Analysis • Though simple, these words are instrumental in conveying the song’s ideas of unrequited love and inadequacy. In fact, this very simplicity is what makes the choice of words so powerful and effective. When the speaker describes his love as “so very special”, he demonstrates his bitterness over his position of inferiority: he does not think himself ‘special’, which is the basis of his feeling of inadequacy.
Analysis Cont. • The speaker then reinforces and drives home this idea by following up his description of this “special” person with an assessment of himself: he is a “creep”. This despicable word brings to mind an almost inhuman being, one who exists so far outside the ‘norm’, so far upon the fringes of society that he may as well be a beast, living, and envying, in the shadows. By choosing the word ‘creep’, Yorke demonstrates fully the speaker’s sense of absolute inadequacy and even freakishness.
Open to Interpretation • Quotes can mean different things to different people • As long as your interpretation relates to the text (and your thesis/main idea), then it’s probably ok. • That does not mean that any interpretation goes.
Finisher • final sentence/s • concise and powerful. • reminder and final stance • You should show the reader how you have proven the main idea of your paragraph. • It should be like a loop.
Example Finisher • The songwriter’s use of simple diction, mainly in the words ‘special’ and ‘creep’, shows that words do not need to be complicated to convey drama and to have lasting effects in the listener/reader. In “Creep”, Yorke’s use of diction portrays the speaker’s feeling of inadequacy in the face of unrequited love.
