One brief quote can turn into a two paragraph-long analysis of that quote. Think small: gooddiscussion and analysis happen when you spend time taking apart a short quote or passage.
• Each paragraph is relevant to the topic of your Paper and to the points you want to make inyour Paper. Make sure that all your paragraphs are directly relevant to your overall topic andeach point you want to make. Avoid random paragraphs in the Paper that do not fit with youroverall topic and individual points.
• Make sure each body paragraph begins with a topic sentence, provides evidence and criticallydiscusses (analyzes) that evidence
.• Each paragraph develops and discusses one idea in depth instead of cramming in threeunrelated ideas.
• Each paragraph (Introduction, Body Paragraphs and Conclusion) is organized, well developed,coherent and unified, and each paragraph follows basic paragraphing rules.
• Paragraphs follow one another in a logical manner.Conclusion:
• There is a paragraph that concludes the Paper. This means that your last paragraph should briefly summarize (in different words – please do not repeat word for word what you alreadywrote in your Paper!) what you hope to have demonstrated to your reader with respect to youroverarching argument or topic.
• The conclusion takes it a step further by asking the reader a provocative, open-ended,thought-provoking question. For example, if I am writing about the question of insane vs. sane ina system of justice with respect to Medea, might ask my reader whether there need to bedifferent laws for men and women when it comes to the question of sanity/insanity in a systemof justice. This is provocative in that it goes against what many believe is part of Justice (Justiceapplies to all, regardless of sex!). But Medea’s situation begs this question because as awoman, a foreigner and an exile she has no recourse to a system of law! She has no rights andno representation of any kind. How can she appeal to a system of Justice when that systemexcludes her?Language
• The Paper does not contain spelling and punctuation errors.• The Paper has been proofed for grammar.
• The Paper is written in Standard English.
• There are no colloquialisms (for example: “she’s way mad” instead of “she displays behaviorthat might be considered mad or insane”; “she’s just a racist” instead of “she is shielded fromand therefore unaware of the systemically racist and violent political and social system that is anoutgrowth of colonial history”).
• The language is formal and academic. Do not use contractions. Do not use “I”.There is a zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism. Papers with plagiarized content receive anautomatic F and a report will be submitted to the Academic Integrity Committee.