WEAVE it all TOGETHER

Now that you've revised and woven your intro paragraph, you can begin to do so with your chunks, turning them into body paragraphs.

Make sure you've gone through all of the steps to turn your basic or first draft frameworks into more developed frameworks. Then, make a copy of your framework so that you still have it, even after you start changing it into paragraph form.

To create an essay from a framework, you aren't simply removing the labels of "Summary sentence," "claim," etc, thought that's a start. Begin by looking at what might be repetitive or obvious. You don't need to include it in your paragraphs - just make sure you keep everything that supports your logic without skipping important steps.

You are most likely writing your essay according to a chronological organization structure, so your patterns, or "reason" can help you to create topic sentences if you need them. While you won't always need a topic sentence for a paragraph, sometimes they are helpful to guide you through your own organization.

Keep in mind that a solid paragraph typically includes at least two pieces of evidence because each reason that you present needs more than one example to be a legitimate pattern. This means that two or three of your chunks would be woven into a single paragraph. This is where you need to use your judgement in terms of what to keep, combine, or get rid of.

For example, you may decide that you want to lead with a part of the CM instead of the CD, or you might blend analysis with evidence throughout the paragraph instead of having one sentence that is evidence followed by a few that are analysis. Often times, building in transitions and using more complex sentence structures will help you to create a woven paragraph from the various chunks in your framework.