Saturday, October 20, 2012

Tips for your upcoming DBQ essay


Remember these tips:

-Your thesis can stand alone as your introduction paragraph.  Remember to keep it to one or two sentences.

-You can cite documents really easy in your paper by stating the document number (ex: In doc #4 the author………….)

-Grouping of documents is a point on the basic core rubric for this essay.  Paragraphs are an easy way to distinguish a group.  Never “list” documents in an essay from 1-6.  It will result in no points for the grouping category.

-Although they can appear anywhere in the essay (except for the thesis), additional documents (missing docs) can be easily placed at the end of the essay as a conclusion.  Remember to follow up with WHY you would like to hear from the missing source.

-If you are not addressing the author of a document, you are not addressing P.O.V.  Many people just state what the author said in their document.  You need to go one step further and figure out WHY they produced the document in this particular manner.

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