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TDECWriting with purposeful sentences
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Thesis statement
An opening statement that works to focus the reader on the main claim of the writing. In rhetorical analysis writing, it serves
to establish the writer/speaker’s primary tone(s) and overall purpose.
Offers an idea (more opinion-based than factual) that must be supported.
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Topic Sentence
T (or TS) can also stand for Topic Sentence when it acts as the thesis for a paragraph. In rhetorical analysis writing, topic
sentences indicate the writer/speaker’s purpose for a particular chunk—how this chunk serves to advance his or her overall purpose.
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Detail (textual evidence) a quote or (preferably) a quote
fragment that serves to prove or support the claim expressed in our thesis statement and/or topic sentence (T)
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Elaboration (context or set-up)Factual information about the
chosen detail. Will be woven with the detail. Elaboration largely answers How?
the writer/speaker went about developing his or her ideas.
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Elaboration (context or set-up)
Elaboration might provide…
The placement of the Detail within the text, physically, and what happened prior to its use.
The context of the Detail being used – in the moment. (How is it used in the text? What’s happening at the time?)
The specific device(s) being used by the writer/speaker in the Detail.
Any additional paraphrasing of the Detail that might be necessary if the D is hard to understand by itself.
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Context
Draws the connection between your claim (Thesis statement or Topic Sentence) and your selected Detail.
Key idea: it is arguable because it is insight and, therefore, opinion.
This largely answers Why? the writer/speaker wrote – getting to ‘deeper’ meaning.