Persuasive Essay Outline

The FIRST paragraph in an essay is called the...

• Body

• Conclusion

• Thesis Statement

• Introduction

An introduction paragraph begins with a ....

• Thesis Statement

• Text Evidence

• Hook

• Background Information

Your thesis statement...

• Includes your position/stance on an arguable topic

• two reasons why for your position/stance

• is located at the end of the introduction paragraph

• all of these

What do we call the first sentence in the body paragraphs?

• topic sentence

• thesis statement

• conclusion

• transition

The topic sentences should

• not relate to the thesis statement

• connect back to the thesis statement by stating a controlling reason from your thesis

• be a quote from a source

• I don't remember

What can you use as support in your body paragraphs?

• examples

• evidence such as facts, quotes, and statistics

• explanations

• all of the above

Following a direct quote or paraphrase from a source, there needs to be an ___________.

• in-text citation

• reasoning

• commentary

• information

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The last paragraph of the essay is called:

• the introduction

• body paragraph 3

• the conclusion

• the end

The conclusion should rephrase:

• the thesis statement

• the topic sentences

• the evidence

• the other opinion on the topic

How should the conclusion end?

• with new supporting details

• with a forward looking statement that tells what the reader should do with the argument that was made in the essay

• it doesn't end