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3.   4-5 sentences  Restate the historical context in your own words  Thesis statement: What are you going to be discussing in your essay?  Last sentence of your introduction paragraph Introduction Paragraph

4.  Historical Context

5.   6-10 sentences  Topic Sentence: First sentence of your body paragraph that lets everyone know what the paragraph is about  Transition Sentence: Last sentence of your body paragraph that takes the reader to the next body paragraph Body Paragraphs

6.   4-5 sentences  Sum up your arguments that you used in your essay Conclusion Paragraph

7.   Golden Rules for using documents:  NEVER START A BODY PARAGRAPH WITH A DOCUMENT  NEVER END A BODY PARAGRAPH WITH A DOCUMENT  NEVER USE BACK TO BACK DOCUMENTS  HALF + ONE Introducing documents into your essay

8.   Introduce documents by author or title  Examples:  Thomas Whatley suggests, “We are not yet recovered from the War undertaken solely for their protection…a War undertaken for their defense only…they should contribute to the preservation of the advantages they have received” (document 1).  If you are not quoting directly from the document you use the same format, but you do not use quotations Introducing documents into your essay

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11.   _____________________________,“________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ______________________________” (document # ). Practice introducing documents

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13.   _____________________________,“________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ______________________________” (document # ). Practice introducing documents

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15.   _____________________________,“________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ______________________________” (document # ). Practice introducing documents

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17.   _____________________________,“________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ______________________________” (document # ). Practice introducing documents

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19.   _____________________________,“________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ ______________________________” (document # ). Practice introducing documents

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