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The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
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Chapter 5
The Body of the Essay
Article outline
A.
The architecture of body paragraphs
1.
The building blocks of an essay: Body paragraphs
a.
Examining topic sentences
The characteristics of topic sentences
b.
Developing evidence to support a topic sentence
Practice: Examining the enumeration essay
c.
Discourse connectors for enumeration
B.
AWARE: Writing the body of an enumeration essay
1.
AWARE: Arranging to write
a.
Generating ideas
Practice: Generating ideas
b.
Strategy: Developing a working thesis statement
Practice: Developing a working thesis
c.
Strategy: Outlining
Practice: Outlining
2.
AWARE: Writing
3.
AWARE: Assessing
Assessing strategy: Reverse outline
Practice: Assessing strategy: Reverse outline
4.
AWARE: Revising
Revising strategy: Paragraph unity
Practice: Revising paragraph unity
Practice: Revising paragraph unity
5.
AWARE: Editing
Strategy: Punctuation for discourse connectors
Practice: Use a discourse connector from the list above to signal a relationship between the two ideas
C.
Expanding language
Examining discourse connectors for enumeration
Practice: Choosing discourse connectors for enumeration