Chapter 5. The Body of the Essay

In:The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
[Not in series 231] 2021
► pp. 89–110

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Chapter 5
The Body of the Essay

Published online: 10 September 2021

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A.The architecture of body paragraphs
- 1.The building blocks of an essay: Body paragraphs
  - a.Examining topic sentences
    - The characteristics of topic sentences
  - b.Developing evidence to support a topic sentence
    - Practice: Examining the enumeration essay
  - c.Discourse connectors for enumeration
B.AWARE: Writing the body of an enumeration essay
- 1.AWARE: Arranging to write
  - a.Generating ideas
    - Practice: Generating ideas
  - b.Strategy: Developing a working thesis statement
    - Practice: Developing a working thesis
  - c.Strategy: Outlining
    - Practice: Outlining
- 2.AWARE: Writing
- 3.AWARE: Assessing
  - Assessing strategy: Reverse outline
    - Practice: Assessing strategy: Reverse outline
- 4.AWARE: Revising
  - Revising strategy: Paragraph unity
    - Practice: Revising paragraph unity
    - Practice: Revising paragraph unity
- 5.AWARE: Editing
  - Strategy: Punctuation for discourse connectors
    - Practice: Use a discourse connector from the list above to signal a relationship between the two ideas
C.Expanding language
- Examining discourse connectors for enumeration
  - Practice: Choosing discourse connectors for enumeration