Type Your Introduction Paragraph

  Write an introduction paragraph using one of the four introduction strategies I taught

you in class, ending with  in a carefully worded, provable thesis (according to class notes).  Remember to write in literary present tense ("Cora gives Duncan her answer....") and to include the author's name and the name of the movie in the introduction paragraph. 

 

Look at the info at the Gale site for help/modeling for your introduction paragraph.

 

How to type your introduction:

 

Intro Evaluation Criteria

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1. Starts with a hook. (organization)
2. Logically leads to thesis (organization)
3. Include the author, director, and Title in the thesis or close to it.

For example,

 “Romanticism is an essential component in director  Michael Mann’s l992 film version of James Fenimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans.

4. Clearly written provable thesis which addresses the prompt (focus) (organization)
5. Typed according to directions

General info

1. Open a Word Document

2. Go to File/Page Set up, and make sure the Top, Left, Bottom, and Right margins are

one inch. 

3. Go to Format/Paragraph, and under Indentation, Special, select "Hanging" and 0.5

4. Go to Format/font, and choose Black/ Times New Roman/ size 12.

Printing and fonts

Type or print; don't turn in handwritten formal work. Print on only one side of the page, in black ink. Use a plain serif or sans-serif font—no cursive fonts, for instance. Good serif choices are size 10 or 12, Times Roman and Palatino; good non-serif choices are Arial and Helvetica."

5. Go to View/Header Footer/ and  type in your last name plus 1 (for the page).  Then right justify it so that it hugs the right border.

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Like other page numbers, the page number appears in the upper-right hand corner, half an inch from the top and flush with the right margin (all margins are one inch)

Guidelines for organizing your essay:

 

Introduction in which you name the author and the novel and the director’s film adaptation using either an anecdote, a quote, a startling statistic, dialogue, the history, or a question and gradually leading to a carefully worded  thesis that romanticism is an essential component in the movie.

 

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 Steps: 

  Easy!!  One step at a time..

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