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State your thesis

1-2 senteces. Most likely, 1 long sentence.
Set the scene
State the thesis
State two major points of the essay (DO NOT REFER TO SELF OR ESSAY)

Paragraphs

Use TE(EE)EL
- Topic
  - Establish a clear argument for your paragraph.
  - Do not just state facts.
  - Topic must link back to thesis
- Explanation
- Evidence
  - Likely the most important part of your paragraph
  - Use direct evidence and indirect evidence
  - Indirect evidence
    - Take the ideas and research of another author, put it into your own words, then reference them as the author.
    - best way to do it is cite things like statistics
    - Do it from secondary sources, not primary sources. primary sources should be direct quotes.
  - MID SENTENCE QUOTING
    - explanation of previously used evidence
    - short direct quotes from a secondary sourec that corroborate with previous primary source
    - Mid-sentence quotes. Short, and incorporated into your own sentence structure
    - APA in-text reference ([LAST_NAME_OF_AUTHOR], [YEAR_OF_QUOTE])
    - signposting
      - before using the source, explain that it is a primary source.
      - "According to the Greek historian Herotodus, who wrote during the 5th century BC"
      - then inline quotes
      - (Herodotus, cited in, Hunter, 2020)
      - Signposting secondary sources
        
        Cite qualifications or reliabaility
        
        "Ivana Petrovic explains in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion"
- Link
  - Link back to topic

Use of evidence in example is not that great as it only uses indirect evidence

Children

MID SENTENCE QUOTING