Remember that you need to focus on telling the reader about the text, not about the world, or about anything else. Your thesis should be
about the text. You need to make the essay that you chose itself your main focus. what might you think about it? What can we learn from it
about the essay writer’s way of thinking?
Regarding the use of quotations in this paper, you need to integrate them smoothly into your sentences, not leave them standing alone in
their own sentences. Here is an example: Jonathan Edwards believes that God is a kind and good master. While God would be justified in
sending any human soul directly to hell, Edwards argues, he still saves many people. He writes that there is “no other reason to be given”
for anybody being spared from hell except that “God’s hand has held [them] up”(Edwards 27). God’s goodness is felt not just after death,
but in the physical world as well, since it is only by his permission that natural forces sustain human life. Edwards warns that “the
earth does not willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lusts,” but is made to do so by God’s indulgence (Edwards 26). One might think
that because Edwards describes hell as the creation of an “angry God,” he sees the creator as a cruel master. In fact, however, Edwards
regards hate and anger as perfectly reasonable reactions to the “abominable” human soul, which he compares with a “spider” and a “venomous
serpent” (Edwards 26-27). For him, God would be good even if everybody went to hell, and the fact that we enjoy even one moment outside of
it is proof of the deity’s infinite benevolence
You should limit your opinions to the conclusion paragraph. An interpretation is something that is more personal than a summary, but less
personal than an opinion. It is a kind of argument. You can think of it as similar to the arguments that lawyers make in court, if that
helps.
You can add anything to this that would not be obvious to the average readers. It can be something that you only saw after looking closely
and patiently at the text.
There should be overaching thesis. If there are 6 body paragraph ideas, you have to make them fit together to form on larger, more complex
idea. You need to take this from a LIST (“A, and B, and C”) to an ARGUMENT (“A, B, and C all contribute to some larger idea, D.”)
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