Syntax Evaluations

During today's class, you self-evaluated your syntax essays by focusing on the following essentials:

• Providing an original, related hook
• Incorporating the author and title into the introduction
• Answering the prompt in the thesis
• Constructing paragraphs with topic sentences and concluding sentences
• Specifying types of syntax (simple, complex, interrogative, exclamatory)
• Adding evidence from the text with a citation
• Explaining the "why" for every syntax example
• Writing a memorable concluding paragraph
• Writing in present tense
• Writing in third person
• Writing clean, detail-oriented essays

The final draft of the essay will be due on Monday. Tomorrow, we will have a brief question session for you. Then, we will be moving onto diction analysis.