Plato suggest that educating oneself and others can be a painful process, one that is often met with resistance and even anger. Why is developing a new way to see so difficult?

1. Hook — This is where you catch the Reader’s attention. It is not necessary, but it is a good writing technique to practice.
   
   
2. Summary of the texts — A summary is no more than two or three sentences for each of the main texts that will be used as support in the essay. A summary introduces the title, author, and general subject of the text.
   
   
3. Thesis statement — The Question + Your Opinion on the topic. Remember that the thesis statement will *answer* the question and therefore should partially restate the question as a statement.

1. Topic Sentence — Remember that this topic sentence points the reader back towards the thesis statement.
   
   
2. Quotation from a Text — Which phrase or sentence best supports the point you are making in this particular paragraph?
   1. announce the quotation — Example: In “Allegory of the Cave” Plato writes that “…” (#).
   2. quote directly from the text — The quotation is the part that should be where the ellipses are in the example right above this in part a.
   3. “In other words…” — What does the quotation mean? In other words, Plato is trying to convince his readers that … .
      
      
3. Connect the quotation’s point to a source outside of the Reading (like the other required reading or a secondary source) — This need only be two or three additional sentences. Making connections shows a higher degree of understanding of how the texts interact with each other to provide support for the essay’s thesis/topic. 

1. Conclusions are short — four or five sentences.
2. Conclusions tell the Reader what they should do or think about now that they know more about this essay’s topic.
3. The very last sentence should point back to the Hook (if you have a Hook).

Threee body paragraphs one intro, one summary