Meal

If I am hired as a teacher at *********, I will use the MEAL format with all my students. MEAL stands for main topic, examples, analysis, and liking. These are the four most important things when writing the body of the paper. A MEAL paper should also include and introduction paragraph and a conclusion paragraph. The topic of a MEAL paper should have a good theme statement that includes the author, the name of their work, and the theme of your paper. This is important because it gives the reader something to keep looking back on to relate to the bodies. The writer should next outline what he will talk about that to support his theme statement. This serves to tell the reader will be discussed in each body paragraph.

The Body is the most important part because it gives the reasons for the side you have taken. A properly formatted body paragraph should begin with a main topic sentence that tells which support point will be described. Next you should give examples of this idea which supports the argument. This should come from an appropriate source such as quotes form the book, something discussed in class, or related personal