Come up with an interesting way to introduce your essay. Consider some of the techniques mentioned in MyWritingLab and in Chapter 16 of Writing Analytically for gaining reader interest. Do not assume that your reader is only your instructor or someone else in class. Imagine, instead, that the reader is someone who may have only a passing familiarity with Lysistrata. Try to arouse the potential reader’s curiosity about your topic and about what the reader will gain and learn from reading your essay. Somewhere in your introduction, usually at the end of it, you need to provide your thesis statement. This will be a sentence or two in which you definitely announce your answer to the question about Lysistrata posed above. Please choose to focus on either marriage or leadership, not on both. Take a look at what Rosenwasser and Stephen say in Chapter 11 on pages 229-231 (123-125) about the tension that should be found in a good thesis statement, and try to convey that tension in your thesis statement. Body: In the body of your paper, you should focus on identifying and explaining the insights into marriage or leadership that you’ve gained by your analysis of Lysistrata. Be sure the reader has a general understanding of what Lysistrata is all about (if you haven’t already explained that in the introduction). More specific details about and quotes from the play should be included as you explain each lesson learned and derive that lesson from some specific action or scene in the play. Be sure to apply the lesson learned to the new context as well. For example, you might argue that one lesson that Lysistrata teaches leaders is that ritual and ceremony is essential when trying to secure buy-in for new initiatives. To support this point, you could describe the scene in which Lysistrata and her co-conspirators share a skin of wine and recite an oath, promising to refrain “from the male altogether.” Then you could explain how a leader in a more contemporary and common context could emulate this ritual and ceremony. You might even supply an example from your own life. Arrange the insights from the least original and surprising and insightful to the most original, surprising, and insightful. Do your best to derive lessons about marriage or leadership that are unexpected, unusual, and original. Try to defamiliarize Lysistrata, marriage, and leadership for your readers so that they see this play and these topics in a way that they’ve never seen them before. Conclusion: Come up with an interesting way to conclude your essay. Consider some of the techniques mentioned in MyWritingLab and in Chapter 16 of Writing Analytically for bringing your essay to a satisfying close and for avoiding the typical problems with conclusions. You might, depending on what your topic is, use the conclusion of your essay to look to the future and to recommend actions that your reader can and should take after reading your essay. Or consider the implications for us all if you are right about the insights you’ve gained and shared about your topic. Seriously consider offering any qualifications or honest concessions that seem logically justified and necessary no matter how valid your conclusion may be