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    The document provides instructions for organizing an essay in 3 parts: 1. The introduction includes a thesis statement with a focused topic and claim, and may include optional restrictions or controls. 2. The body includes paragraphs with topic sentences for each control, supporting evidence such as facts and examples, and concluding sentences that link back to the thesis. 3. The conclusion restates the controlling ideas and explains the significance of the claim from the thesis without introducing new details.

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    The document provides instructions for organizing an essay in 3 parts: 1. The introduction includes a thesis statement with a focused topic and claim, and may include optional restrictions or controls. 2. The body includes paragraphs with topic sentences for each control, supporting evidence such as facts and examples, and concluding sentences that link back to the thesis. 3. The conclusion restates the controlling ideas and explains the significance of the claim from the thesis without introducing new details.

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    How To Organise An Essay

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    The document provides instructions for organizing an essay in 3 parts: 1. The introduction includes a thesis statement with a focused topic and claim, and may include optional restrictions or controls. 2. The body includes paragraphs with topic sentences for each control, supporting evidence such as facts and examples, and concluding sentences that link back to the thesis. 3. The conclusion restates the controlling ideas and explains the significance of the claim from the thesis without introducing new details.

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    How to organise an essay

    General

    Specific Introduction

    Thesis: focused topic + claim on topic


    Optional restrictor: Control 1, Control 2, Control 3

    Topic Sentence: Control 1


    - Facts
    - Examples
    Supporting evidence Body
    - Details
    - Explanations The number of
    Concluding sentence links back to thesis body
    paragraphs will
    vary according
    (Optional bridge sentence) to the word
    Topic Sentence: Control 2 count of the
    essay; body
    - Facts
    paragraphs are
    - Examples
    Supporting evidence usually
    - Details 100-250 words.
    - Explanations
    Concluding sentence links back to thesis

    (Optional bridge sentence)


    Topic Sentence: Control 3
    - Facts
    - Examples
    Supporting evidence
    - Details
    - Explanations
    Concluding sentence links back to thesis

    Specific

    Conclusion
    General

    - Summarise the controlling ideas in the body paragraphs.


    - Explain the significance of the claim in the thesis: “So what?”
    - Do not introduce any new details.
    How to organise a body paragraph

    (Optional: bridge sentence to explain the connection between the previous paragraph and this one)

    Topic sentence: (states the general idea of the paragraph)_______________________________________________

    First major point:______________________________________________________________________________________

    Specific detail: ______________________________________________________________________________________

    Specific detail:______________________________________________________________________________________

    Second major point:_____________________________________________________________________________________

    Specific detail: ______________________________________________________________________________________

    Specific detail:______________________________________________________________________________________

    Third major point:_____________________________________________________________________________________

    Specific detail: ______________________________________________________________________________________

    Specific detail:______________________________________________________________________________________

    Concluding sentence: (links topic of this body paragraph back to the thesis) ____________________________

    __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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