Three paragraph essay

1. Three Paragraph Essay By Dr. J

2. Three Paragraph Essay: Introductory The introductory paragraph should also include the thesis statement, a kind of mini-outline for the essay. This is where the writer grabs the reader's attention. It tells the reader what the paper is about. The last sentence of this paragraph must also include a transitional "hook" which moves the reader to the first paragraph of the body of the essay.

3. Three Paragraph Essay: Body This paragraph should include the strongest argument, most significant example, cleverest illustration, or an obvious beginning point. The subject for this paragraph should be in the first or second sentence. This subject should relate to the thesis statement in the introductory paragraph. The last sentence in this paragraph should include a transition that signals the reader that this is the final major point being made in this essay.

4. Three Paragraph Essay: Summary The third paragraph is the summary paragraph. It is important to restate the thesis and the supporting idea in an original and powerful way as this is the last chance the writer has to convince the reader of the validity of the information presented.

5. Three Paragraph Essay: Summary This paragraph should include the following: an allusion to the pattern used in the introductory paragraph, a restatement of the thesis statement, using some of the original language or language that "echoes" the original language. a summary of the main point from the body of the essay a final statement that gives the reader signals that the discussion has come to an end

6. Example: 1 st Paragraph I've had a great many embarrassing moments in my life. Some of the most embarrassing have occurred while I was attending school. One of these moments happened in high school during my junior year. I remember it well because it concerned an event that I deeply feared I would encounter during my formative years: a high school dance. Not that I was a poor dancer. Nothing of the sort! It was just that I had to do it with girls. Later in life, I found out that if I had to do it, doing it with girls had its advantages. But that's another story.

7. Example 2 nd paragraph The scene was the high school cafeteria. The red-faced moment occurred during a Sadie Hawkin's Day auction. There was, you see, a particular girl attending said school who was very ugly. She was so ugly, in fact, that we--my school compadres and I--used the word " ooglay " to refer to her: a word that connotes outright, without-a-doubt nastiness in the looks department. Anyway, lucky me, old "parrot-beak" (as we sometimes called her), with a great deal of fanfare and flourish, picked me as the slob of the hour and plunked down good money to confirm her choice. Embarrassed isn't really the word I want here. Mortified is more like it. I was mortified, horrified, embarrassed, and downright shocked at the prospect of attending a school dance with the Beast of Babcock High.

8. Example 3 rd paragraph Looking back at this event with an aged eye, an eye steeped in a broth of maturity and experience, I find that I am still embarrassed. My embarrassment today, however, stems from the realization that never was I so cruel and heartless as I was at that auction some thirty years ago. Often do I wonder how that girl must have felt as the jeers and catcalls of an undisciplined mob cascaded around her. I fervently hope that I shall never meet this girl face to face in the present. That would surely be the most embarrassing moment of my life.