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GUIDE FOR ESSAY 2 1. Title: Have you included your name and your Seminar number
at the head of the first page of your essay? Have you formulated a title for your essay that clearly
relates to the main topic of your
paper? 2.
Introduction: Does your first paragraph begin with a clear statement about the
position which you have taken in your essay? Do the remaining sentences in your first paragraph let the reader know
what to expect in the rest of your essay? Do these sentences let the reader know how you have argued your
position in the rest of your essay? 3. Exposition: Does each of your subsequent paragraphs focus clearly on a topic
mentioned in your introduction? Does each sentence in this paragraph focus on the topic of the
paragraph? Are the sentences in each paragraph made to relate to each other or
are they merely a series of unrelated observations? Is each sentence a complete sentence? 4.
Conclusion: Does your conclusion follow from the evidence on
which you based your exposition? Is it what you
advertised in your introduction? 5.
Syntax and style: Are you
certain that you have noticed the difference between singulars and plurals? Are most
of your verbs active? Have
you used your dictionary, even for looking up ordinary words? 6. Special
reminder: This essay is about Suetonius' Augustus;
don't try to focus on the “real”
Augustus. Do not separate your subjects from their verbs with
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