Return to your classwork and annotations. Choose the main IDEAs you want to discuss because your own analysis supports them. Use Stages of IDEAs to clarify what each argues.
What is the next, further broken-down stage of your paragraph IDEA? Use it to explain the IDEA’s parts, then break those down again to develop implications.
What is the next, further broken-down stage of your paragraph IDEA? Use it to explain the IDEA’s parts, then break those down again to develop implications.
Develop each IDEA through elaboration and relevant EAs.
Conclude by explaining what the argument has demonstrated.
Done
The essay answers your LOI.
Every paragraph develops the argument.
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HL Essay scaffold + example
Introduction: See Introduction Writing Guide and Example - HL Essay
Framing Sentence - this will be a more general statement around the essay’s topic in general
Introduction to the texts - this is where you will give the writer’s name and any relevant details about the text itself
Establish the THESIS which answers the question directly - this is where you ACTUALLY answer the question directly. Often you will use words like:
“Ultimately, Writer X argues (links to the words in the question) ….
“It is clear that Writer X believes (links to the words in the question) ….
“Given (links to the words in the question), Writer X claims that ….”
Provide the argument outline - this is where you clearly state HOW you will prove your THESIS by reflecting/rewording the Topic Sentences of your TEEALs
Body Paragraph(s) - TEEAL/IDEA/Argument
Topic Sentence
What is the key IDEA of the argument?
How will it help prove your THESIS?
Elaboration - Moving Through the Stages of IDEAs Guide/Creating ELABORATIONS/DDM/Global Issue Formulation - Criterion A/C
Why is that IDEA important/significant?
How exactly does it prove the THESIS
What is the next, further broken-down stage of your paragraph IDEA? Use it to explain the IDEA’s parts, then break those down again to develop implications.
Evidence
Key quote/section that prove the IDEA
Analysis - Ways to Phrase EAs/Deconstructions - Crit B & Plane Method - Broader SF/AC EA Writing (IO and HL Essay Specific)
Key AC
Deconstruction of AC
How does the EFFECT of the deconstruction show the audience the IDEA?
(EA continued)
Linking
What was the key IDEA
How could this key IDEA relate to the next?
Body paragraph 2 · IDEA 2
Conclusion
Reframe the essay’s topic
Clearly restate your THESIS
Outline the IDEAs you used to prove your THESIS
Final comment
Saved draft versions
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