What is an essay? - An essay is a short collection of paragraphs that presents facts, opinions, and ideas about a topic, What do we call the "plan" that the body follows? - Outline, What types of outline can we write? - General and Specific (or detailed), What's the first part of an essay? - The Introduction, How many parts are there in the Introduction? - 3, What are the parts of the introduction? - Hook, connecting information, and thesis statement., What can be used as a "hook"? - A question, an interesting observation, a unique scenario, a famous quote, a surprising or a shocking statistic, What is the "connecting information" in the introduction? - Background info about the topic (sometimes, also examples), What is the "Thesis Statement"? - The last part of the introduction (usu. 1 sentence), How can we label the different types of the Thesis statement? - Direct and Indirect, Where is the Body? - Between the introduction and the conclusion., How many paragraphs are typically part of the "Body"? - 3 or 4, What's the 1st sentence of each body paragraph? - The topic sentence, What does a topic sentence state? - The main topic of the paragraph, What do supporting sentences do? - They relate to the topic sentence of the paragraph in which they occur, What kind of information do supporting sentences provide? - They give examples, reasons, facts, and more specific information about the topic, Where are "transition" (or concluding) sentences used? - Between one body paragraph and the other, What's the purpose of the conclusion? - To remind the reader of the main idea of the essay, What can we find in the conclusion? - A restatement, suggestions, opinions, predictions, a lesson, etc., What can we NOT find in the conclusion? - New information, What is the relation between the conclusion and the Introduction? - They share similar ideas and words,

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