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The Crucible Final Paper

Explore how characters in "The Crucible" reveal vital lessons through their actions and dialogues, providing evidence from the play for each analytical claim. Craft compelling body paragraphs, structured thesis, engaging intro, and reflective conclusion to propel your argument effectively. Refine your writing through formal language and proper quotation techniques to develop a thorough analysis of the text. Embrace the process of revision and editing, aligning with MLA formatting guidelines to present a polished final paper.

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The Crucible Final Paper

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  1. The CrucibleFinal Paper

  2. Thesis First • The thesis must tell your reader exactly what you’re going to be proving. • The thesis must state what the character teaches. • So-and-so teaches readers to be ________. • So-and-so shows _______. • So-and-so shows how one should ______________.

  3. What will each body paragraph be about?

  4. Find Evidence • For each claim, you’ll need at least one piece of evidence. • How do you know your claims are true? • What evidence from the play can you use to back up your claims? • Tools for finding evidence: • Your colorful paper • Your study guides • Re-reading • Friends/Teachers

  5. Start by Writing the Body Paragraphs

  6. Formal Language Reminder • Avoid 1st/2nd person pronouns. • You may also want to get rid of contractions. For example, don’t = “do not.” • Use “literary present tense.” This means you must stay in the present tense to discuss what HAPPENS in the book.

  7. Body Paragraphs Finished? Now Write the Intro. • Start with a HOOK. • Get the reader’s attention with a creative, clever, or interesting comment, connection, idea, anecdote, famous quote, or comparison. • Write a “BRIDGE,” mentioning the title and author. • Here, you can give a tiny bit of background or summary, so feel free to mention characters, events, or subjects from the text that help you transition from the hook to the thesis. • Finish with the THESIS (the last sentence in the intro).

  8. Now, Write the Conclusion • Restate thesis. Say it in a fresh way; do not copy and paste. • Briefly summarize main ideas. Only if paper is over 2 pages. • Broaden out. Make an interesting statement that shows how your topic is relevant, interesting, or useful to everyone. It can be nice to link back to the idea(s) in your hook as you broaden out. Human beings really respond to this kind of closure – they like when things “come full circle.”

  9. Make a TitleGood titles should be INTERESTING, like the picture! • The title is your chance to make a good first impression! Make it witty, deep, or creative. • Center it, capitalize the first word, and then capitalize the other words except for articles (the, a, an) & small prepositions. • Leave it PLAIN. Do not underline, bold, use a cute or colorful font, make it large, or put it in quotation marks.

  10. Leave Time for Revision

  11. Editing Matters! • Watch out for run-ons, comma mistakes, and verb tense shifts. • Look for typos and misspellings. • Have other people look over your work, too…

  12. Check Your MLA Formatting

  13. Set up Your Work Cited Page with the Correct Formatting

  14. Type up the Entry…

  15. Short Quotations in Drama (only one person is speaking) • Enclose quoted material within quotation marks, & be sure they face the right way. • Add a space after the final quotation mark, and then put in your parentheticalreference. • In the parenthetical, provide the author’s last name and a specific page number. • Remove periods, commas, colons, & semicolons from the end of the quotation, but leave in question marks and exclamation points. • Place the desired punctuation after the parenthetical.

  16. Examples of short quotations: • Hale tells the people gathered around him, “We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone, and I must tell you all that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of Hell upon her” (Miller 185). • The stage directions have this to say: “This predilection for minding other people’s business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness" (Miller 167).

  17. Quoting Dialogue in a Play • Begin each part with the character’s name indented 1-inch from the left margin and written in all capital letters followed by a period. • Then, write what he or she says. Start a new line and write the next speaker’s name as necessary. • In the parenthetical reference at the end of the quote, include the page number. • See the next slide for an example!

  18. John makes a good point during Act II: HALE. Mister, I have myself examined Tituba, Sarah Good, and numerous others that have confessed to dealing with the Devil. They have confessed it. PROCTOR. And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? There are them that will swear to anything before they’ll hang; have you never thought of that? HALE. I have. I—I have indeed. It is his own suspicion, but he resists it. (Miller 200)

  19. Want to add/change words?We often do this for clarity.Just use brackets! Francis cries out, “You cannot mean [Rebecca] will be tried in court!” (Miller 201).

  20. Need to Remove Words? Use Brackets with an Ellipsis! John makes clear that his problem was waiting to reveal the truth of the situation when he says, “them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed [ . . . ] God damns our kind especially, and we will burn” (Miller 227).

  21. What About Paraphrased Material? Guess what? If you’re talking about something that happened in the play, some detail about a character or an event in the plot, but you are putting it into your own words, even if you are not using a direct quote from the novel, YOU STILL MUST CITE THE PAGE NUMBER(S)!

  22. Citing Paraphrased Material… Hale talks about how it is very chaotic in the town; he says the cows have gotten loose and people might rebel (Miller 233). Note: If the paraphrased detail is extremely obvious and you couldn’t really point to a specific page where it happened or was revealed or stated, like, “John and Elizabeth are married with children” then you don’t need to cite.

  23. Common Errors • Want to show a page range? Just don’t be redundant. • (47-8) • (119-20) • (3-4) • Use italics for stage directions. ELIZABETH. with an attempt at a laugh You will never believe, I hope, that Rebecca trafficked with the Devil. • At the tail end of any quoted material, remove the end punctuation (except ? or !). • Be sure there’s a space before the parenthetical & a period after parenthetical! Parris says, “Tonight, when I open my door to leave my house—a dagger clattered to the ground” (Miller 232). SPACE HERE

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