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BOILER PLATE FOR ESSAY/PAPER WRITING

Intro Paragraph.

In this paper (essay), I shall argue that __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. In support of my thesis, I shall examine the works of _________, _________, and _________ and discover that, indeed, __________________________________________________. In order to develop my position, I shall first, ________________________________, then ____________________________________, and finally examine _____________________________________________________________________________.

Paragraph 1.

Let us now turn to ________________________________.

(Elaborate this position).

Paragraph 2. Let us now turn to _______________________________________________.

(Elaborate this position)

Paragraph 3. Let us now look at ______________________________________________.

(Elaborate this position)

Paragraph 4. (Outline some of the difficulties in these positions and show why yours works and these others do not.)

Conclusion: As we have seen from the above, (Thesis). In sum, we can see why this is the case because of (main idea from paragraph 1), (main idea from paragraph 2), and (main idea from paragraph 3).

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