HL-Essay builder

1. What text will you explore (literary work or non-literary body of work)?

2. What kinds of secondary sources have you found on your text? (include your
bibliography below and/or hyperlink to the sources)

3. What did you learn about your text from these sources?

4. What’s your line of inquiry? (Connect the author's intent and style to a concept
and topic like this.)

5. What’s your thesis statement? (Answer the line of inquiry)

6. Outline your essay below

Introduction:
● What’s the topic?
● When, where and was your text
written?
● What’s your line of inquiry (LOI)?
● End intro with thesis statement

Body paragraph:
● Topic sentence: How is the LOI
answered by analysing the author’s
style and purpose?
● Evidence of the stylistic feature from
the primary source,
● Analyse how this feature makes the
reader respond to the text and
understand the topic/concept/LOI
● Support your analysis with a secondary
source,
● Evaluate the secondary and/or primary
source,
● Relate analysis and evaluation back to
the LOI and thesis statement.
Body paragraph:
● Topic sentence: How is the LOI
answered by analysing the author’s
style and purpose?
● Evidence of the stylistic feature from
the primary source,
● Analyse how this feature makes the
reader respond to the text and
understand the topic/concept/LOI
● Support your analysis with a secondary
source,
● Evaluate the secondary and/or primary
source,
● Relate analysis and evaluation back to
the LOI and thesis statement.

Body paragraph:
● Topic sentence: How is the LOI
answered by analysing the author’s
style and purpose?
● Evidence of the stylistic feature from
the primary source,
● Analyse how this feature makes the
reader respond to the text and
understand the topic/concept/LOI
● Support your analysis with a secondary
source,
● Evaluate the secondary and/or primary
source,
● Relate analysis and evaluation back to
the LOI and thesis statement.

Conclusion:
● Repeat main answers to the LOI/echo
the thesis statement.
● Evaluate how effective the author is in
achieving his/her purpose through the
use of style/structure.
● Why all of this matters.

7. Rough draft of essay

8. Final draft of essay