Academic Essay Format

In Humanities, we learned the format for academic essays, the format that we would use for the rest of our time in Canadian International School, at least. Before I state the format, I would like to say "An essay is like a hamburger". Without the bun of a hamburger, it wouldn't be satisfying, or having only the bun of the hamburger, wouldn't be satisfying as well.

INTRODUCTION

-A Hook (optional): something to capture the reader's attention, ex. an interesting fact

-A Topic Sentence: present a topic with a topic sentence / thesis statement, concise and explains essay

-Road Map: direction of the essay, 1 sentence, tells the reader about the body paragraphs

BODY

-Intro Sentence: what the paragraph is about

-Supporting Details: supports the argument

-Concluding Sentence: Summarizes paragraph

Note: Each new big idea requires a new paragraph

CONCLUSION

-Summary: summarizes the main idea

-Answer: an answer for the topic question

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