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The Significance of Letters in “Pride and Prejudice”

Your essay should have three parts: an introductory paragraph, a body containing fully developed paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Following is a general guide for what to include in each section of your essay.

In your introductory paragraph:

• Introduce Pride and Prejudice and its author.
• Identify clearly your essay topic.
• Include a strong thesis statement on the topic.
• Forecast the main stages of your analysis.

In your analysis in the body of your essay:

• Make effective use of topic sentences to identify the main ideas of your analysis.
• Support your comments with evidence (paraphrase and direct quotations) from the novel.
• Explain the significance of each piece of evidence you present as it relates to your thesis.
• Identify the sources of all your quotations with parenthetical in-text citations.
• Contribute to your reader’s understanding of the novel as a whole.

In your concluding paragraph:

• Summarize the main stages of your analysis.
• Restate your thesis in different words.