Key learning points

1. A thesis statement is a clear, overarching argument.
2. Topic sentences give focus to individual paragraphs.
3. Select main quotations and supporting quotations to include in an essay.
4. Main quotations should be analysed; supporting quotations don’t need to be analysed.
5. Concluding sentences can focus on a writer’s intention and draw your paragraph to a close.

Keywords

• Coming of age - when someone legally becomes an adult, but also used to describe when someone matures and develops

• Intergenerational conflict - tension between younger and older people, often in a family, for example a parent and child

• Internal conflict - struggle and difficulty that takes place in your own mind

• Dislocation - a sense of being out of place, or in the wrong place

• Intersect - connect, cross, meet

Common misconception