Writing an effective essay
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The Basic - 5 Paragraph Essay structure.....in OSSLT talk, a Series of Paragraphs
I Introduction - includes Hook + Thesis + Directional Sentence
II - IV Body Paragraph 1 -3 = Point + Evidence + Example x3
V Conclusion
Evidence in an essay can take many forms including:
Quotations from a text
Paraphrased info from a text
Anecdotes (stories often from personal experience)
Facts
For the purposes of your essay you will be using the first two.
I Introduction - includes Hook + Thesis + Directional Sentence
II - IV Body Paragraph 1 -3 = Point + Evidence + Example x3
V Conclusion
Evidence in an essay can take many forms including:
Quotations from a text
Paraphrased info from a text
Anecdotes (stories often from personal experience)
Facts
For the purposes of your essay you will be using the first two.
ENG 1D Short Story Series of Paragraphs
“Why so serious?” Is the Joker’s famous line from Batman, Dark Knight that indicates to the audience the dark nature of his mental sickness. In the short story, Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, the protagonist, Mary Maloney is also suffering from mental illness. (Multiple Personality Disorder, Clinical Depression, Narcissism) This mental illness is demonstrated through: her denial of her responsibility for actions; her irrational actions; and her creation of a separate reality.
Body Paragraph 1 - Do not include this sub title in your rough or good copy.
Mary Maloney’s mental illness is first demonstrated by her denial of responsibility for her actions. In Lamb to the Slaughter, “[Mary] told her story about going to the grocer and coming back, when she found [her husband] on the floor.”(Dahl 3) In her story, Mary denies responsibility by saying that her husband was already dead when she came home and since the murder happened while she was out the detective must assume that she is not guilty (responsible) for her husband’s death. The reader knows that Mary’s story is lie. In telling the lie Mary proves that mental illness prevents her from accepting the reality of her responsibility in her husband’s death.
“Why so serious?” Is the Joker’s famous line from Batman, Dark Knight that indicates to the audience the dark nature of his mental sickness. In the short story, Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl, the protagonist, Mary Maloney is also suffering from mental illness. (Multiple Personality Disorder, Clinical Depression, Narcissism) This mental illness is demonstrated through: her denial of her responsibility for actions; her irrational actions; and her creation of a separate reality.
Body Paragraph 1 - Do not include this sub title in your rough or good copy.
Mary Maloney’s mental illness is first demonstrated by her denial of responsibility for her actions. In Lamb to the Slaughter, “[Mary] told her story about going to the grocer and coming back, when she found [her husband] on the floor.”(Dahl 3) In her story, Mary denies responsibility by saying that her husband was already dead when she came home and since the murder happened while she was out the detective must assume that she is not guilty (responsible) for her husband’s death. The reader knows that Mary’s story is lie. In telling the lie Mary proves that mental illness prevents her from accepting the reality of her responsibility in her husband’s death.