ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Counterargument, Thesis Statement

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1100
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

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Final structure emerges over the course of several drafts. It helps to begin with some kind of frame or map, an outline that shows the relations between your ideas and how you will connect them. Not content based, do not study for it. Will have a short essay on the midterm. Answering 4 questions (prof will be sending them) It is open book: identify and evaluate the thesis statement (who is the audience, does it fit with the piece?, evaluate the evidence, evaluate the structure (introduction, conclusion, unified throughout, style (will be sending slides out) Make a master list of all ideas and details you want to include in your argument. Assess your ideas in relation to your thesis statement and to eachother. Organize for logic, clarity, and power: keep your reader in mind. Confirm all of this with an outline. Your title: keep it lively, informative, short.