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Main idea/Thesis statement

The sources and genres largely determine an

essays conventions, moves, and structures
as authors purposes vary, so we can see
similarities and differences among the
biology article, the sociology article, and the
news article.

Biology article and sociology article

share similar conventions such as
they belong to the same genre
academic article. For example, both
avoid using first person

Biology article and sociology article

are also different in conventions,
because they study anger from two
different
perspectivesbiological
aspect and sociology aspect. For
example, biology article focus on
number and experiment, while the
other
focus
on
words
and
description.
News
article
uses
different
conventions from two academic
pieces, because it belongs to a
more informal genre and uses
personal experiences as sources.

How/Why
supports
argument

it
my

This
paragraph
contributes to thesis
statement
by
discussing
similar
conventions used in
two academic pieces
as they belong to the
same genre.
This
paragraph
focuses on different
conventions in two
academic pieces for
they
study
anger
from two different
angles.

It analyzes how news

article uses a more
personal
and
informal
conventions
than
academic pieces.
Two academic papers share similar It analyzes similarity
moves as they use hedged in term of moves
between
two
language.
academic articles.
Two academic paper share similar It analyzes similarity
moves as they quote sources in term of moves
between
two
from published articles.
academic articles.
Same moves two academic It
analyzes
papers employ serves different differences between
purpose as one approaches to the purpose of two
anger from biological angle, while articles move due
the other is from sociological angle. to they use different
sources.
Differently, the news article employs some It argues that since
non-academic moves to achieve its goals.
news article is a

more informal and

personal genre than

Structures of two academic pieces

are identical as they belong to the
same genre.

10

Although two academic articles use

identical structures, contents they
present are different because they
are from different angles and use
different sources.

11

Both academic article and news article have

virtue and vice as they belong to different
genres and serve different purposes.

academic articles, it
employs
nonacademic moves.
It
supports
the
argument
that
structure
is
determined
by
genres.
Reinforce
the
argument
that
in
term of contents,
structure is also
determined
by
sources
It seems irrelevant to
thesis statement

Analysis
I did not make a major change to my structure, because I believe
this is a suitable structure to discuss similarities and differences
among three articles. One big change I made is that I rewrote my
thesis statement so that it is more specific now. And accordingly, for
topic sentence of each paragraph, I also made it specific and
contribute to my thesis statement.
Using reverse outline allows me to look back to topic sentence of
each paragraph to see how each paragraph functions in my whole
paper, how each of them supports my thesis statement. It helps me
see the overall structure more clearly and integrate paragraphs into

one essay.