Write a literary analysis paragraph using the claim-evidence-explanation structure, supporting a claim about the text with a specific quote and explanation.
Writing about reading is different from writing a summary -- it makes a CLAIM, an arguable point about the text, and proves it with EVIDENCE, a specific quote or detail, and EXPLANATION, why that evidence actually proves the claim. This is called the claim-evidence-explanation structure, or C-E-E.
A claim without evidence is just an opinion floating with nothing underneath it. Evidence without explanation just sits there -- the reader has to guess why you included it. All three parts working together make a paragraph that actually persuades.
Mastery looks like: They write a complete C-E-E paragraph where the explanation clearly connects specific textual evidence back to the claim.
Common stumbles: Writing evidence and explanation that merely restate each other instead of the explanation doing new analytical work.
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