Building A Five Paragraph Essay
Blueprints
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This presentation will take
you through the basic building blocks of an essay. It covers
introductions and conclusions, thesis statements, paragraph patterns,
transitions, and more. Building an essay is very similar to constructing
a house. Just as a house needs a strong foundation, an essay
needs an interesting introduction. A house has an internal structure
that rests on the foundation just as the body of an essay rests
and supports the introduction and thesis statement. The final
part of a house is the roof; often the roof gives the home character
as well as providing cover for the rest of the structure. In
an essay, the conclusion is the last thing the reader sees; it
gives the reader a sense of completeness as it wraps up the subject.
Since building an essay is so similar to constructing a house,
this presentation uses the construction and the decoration of
houses as a metaphor for writing an essay.
