Body Paragraph Checklist

Checklist for Your Body Paragraphs 

¨ Topic Sentence to introduce they main focus of your paragraph

¨ Introduce all your sources by telling your reader the

Speaker, Occasion and Purpose of the piece

¨ Select the most relevant and specific part of your evidence (also, don’t “bite off more than you can chew”)

¨ Cite your sources. Use the citation guide on the essay sheet.

¨ Offer deep analysis that:

o   Explains the evidence in your own words

o   Relates the evidence to the topic sentence and main argument of the paper

o   Identifies the Significance of the evidence and/or Tone

o   Transitions to the next idea

¨ Includes multiple pieces of evidence from different sources

¨ Concluding sentence that connects all of the evidence and analysis you provided with the idea in the topic sentence