The following are your Essay 1 (Analysis) Goals:

1. Essay Goal: Clear and specific thesis statement
2. Essay Goal: Academic language
   1. No “you”, “we,” or “I”*
   2. No “Blueprinting”
   3. No informal words/phrases
3. Essay Goal: MLA formatting

1. Paragraph Goal: Topic sentence – A specific point to support the thesis
2. Paragraph Goal: Support for topic sentence – explanation/example of topic sentence
3. Paragraph Goal: Concluding sentence — Connect paragraph explanation/example to topic sentence and thesis
4. Paragraph Goal: Transitions– Use Transitional terms to move within the paragraph as well as from one paragraph to another: (Also, another, etc.), key words (from one paragraph to another), key ideas (from one paragraph to another)