10 Tips to Create the Best Essay Prompts --Things to Keep in Mind--
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-Tip 1-
Make sure to review insightful literature for your third essay prompt-- choose the ones that have various themes and allow you to conduct meaningful analysis.
-Tip 2-
Remember to incorporate a bigger why... the author wrote for a reason, look for it and incorporate it into the prompt as a sub theme.
-Tip 3-
Only summarize or quote what is necessary for your analysis. Use insightful evidence.
-Tip 4-
Look at where the AP readers cut off the passage, ask yourself, why they cut it off where they did? Use this to your advantage when analyzing.
-Tip 5-
Use specific evidence from the chosen book for the third essay, be sure not to do a general summary.
-Tip 6-
Be creative and unique, avoid road map structure.
-Tip 7-
Be sure to state WHY the character or situation fits the third essay prompt rather than just stating that they do.
-Tip 8-
Use the rule of 2
-Tip 9-
Know a decent amount of vocabulary and the best go to literary devices.
Repetition
Dialogue
Character's Actions
Imagery
Narrative Pacing
Point of View
Juxtaposition
-Tip 10-
Have some type o PLAN before you begin writing--
Create a claim
highlight evidence you want to use from the passage or book, and have an idea for how you will use it