The document provides tips for structuring essay comments by using a point-evidence-explanation structure. Students should present a point, then add evidence from the text to support the point, and finally explain how the evidence relates to the point. The document also suggests focusing comments on techniques used by the author and relationships between characters to reflect the overall message.
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The document provides tips for structuring essay comments by using a point-evidence-explanation structure. Students should present a point, then add evidence from the text to support the point, and finally explain how the evidence relates to the point. The document also suggests focusing comments on techniques used by the author and relationships between characters to reflect the overall message.
The document provides tips for structuring essay comments by using a point-evidence-explanation structure. Students should present a point, then add evidence from the text to support the point, and finally explain how the evidence relates to the point. The document also suggests focusing comments on techniques used by the author and relationships between characters to reflect the overall message.
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The document provides tips for structuring essay comments by using a point-evidence-explanation structure. Students should present a point, then add evidence from the text to support the point, and finally explain how the evidence relates to the point. The document also suggests focusing comments on techniques used by the author and relationships between characters to reflect the overall message.
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Essay technique
Structuring your comments and integrating
quotations
Use these as the POINT, then add some EVIDENCE
and an EXPLANATION
1. The writer presents _______ through _________, which in turn allows
him / her to ___________
2. The relationship between ____(character)___ and _____(other
character) is reflected through __________
3. The writer uses ______(technique)___ to reflect / show the _________
4. The focus on _________ is reflected in _______________
5. (Author) structures the text / poem in this way to reflect / show /
portray_________
6. By using _____(technique), the author’s message of
______(whatever the message is) is developed through _________
7. The __(technique / specific language)___ highlights ________,