Structure+of+the+Paper

=Structure of the Paper=

Introduction
You have a few choices of how you would like to begin your introduction. You can start with background information. For example, background may include general thoughts and statements about your theme that will lead into your thesis statement. Besides background, you can choose to begin with a brief story or anecdote about a topic relating to your theme that will lead into your thesis statement. You may decide to start your paper with a quotation form a novel or elsewhere and an interpretation of it that segues into your thesis statement. Your thesis statement is the last sentence of your introduction and must include the following: author's name, title of novel, two or three literary elements, and one theme.

Body
The first body paragraph will begin with a topic sentence that mentions the literary element first listed in your thesis statement. You will lead into your first example from the novel of this literary element. Then you must follow up each textual example with an analytical comment discussing how the example supports the theme. The analytical comments should be a combination of some of your own ideas and some comments from a critic, if you found any to back you up on this particular example. You must use at least **TWO examples from your novel** __and__ **TWO comments from critics for EACH literary element**. In other words, you must include at least **two quotes from your novel** and **two quotes from critics for each element**. You must decide the clearest, most effective way to organize all the novel examples and critic quotes. Whatever way you decide to organize your information, you must transition from one textual example to another and you must have a concluding sentence at the end of each body paragraph. You must repeat this process for your second literary element and for your third literary element, if you have a third. The discussion throughout the entire paper will support the theme and literary elements mentioned in your thesis statement.

Conclusion
The conclusion will include a restatement of your thesis and concluding comments. You can summarize the main points of the research paper, but you should be careful not to use the same wording and same sentences because then the conclusion will sound repetitive. Ask yourself the following questions to help you conclude your paper: What is the lesson that the author is trying to portray? What is his or her purpose in writing this novel? What is my purpose in writing this paper? The final few sentences should have a lasting impression on the reader.