Drafting Body Paragraphs for Antigone Analysis Essay

Here are some tips that will help you create an effective essay:

Claims:

• Provide a clear thesis that presents a specific conclusion about a theme developed in the play.
• Make sure all claims, evidence, and analysis presented in body paragraphs are directly relevant to your thesis.
• Topic sentences need to make a clear connection between the thesis and the specific literary element to be discussed in the paragraph.

Organization:

• Your essay as a whole should follow a clear, logical pattern of development that aids reader understanding of the claims you make.
• Provide effective intro, body, and conclusion paragraphs
• Body paragraphs must provide a clear topic sentence, evidence, analysis, and a concluding statement.
• Provide effective transitions between ideas. Logical connections must be used at all times.

Evidence: 

• Provide abundant evidence from throughout the text to support all claims. 
• Incorporate all evidence into blended sentences to establish transition and clarify context and significance
• Make intentional decisions about which quotes you will pull from what parts of the text.

Analysis:

• Provide a two sentence analysis of each evidence selection, explaining the meaning or insight developed by the quote in the context of the play and then analyzing how this meaning develops the abstract theme you are discussing.
• Make sure to include transitions between ideas & sentences

Voice:

• Use clear, precise, effective word choice at all times, avoiding vague wording and broad generalization
• Use active diction  -- avoid "to be" verbs and past tense at all times.
• Maintain formal diction at all times -- avoid first and second person (I, you , we, us) and slang, cliche, or colloquialism
• Write clear, fluent sentences and avoid wordy, awkward, or grammatically incorrect constructions.

Conventions:

• Check spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and format.
• Use MLA citation and formatting.