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How to write an essay?
Below are 8 steps to writing an essay
1. Research: Begin the essay writing process by researching your topic. Take notes use the internet, the academic databases, and the library 2. Analysis: after having a good knowledge base, start analyzing the arguments of the essays you're reading. Clearly define the claims, write out the reasons, the evidence. Look for weaknesses of logic, and also strengths. Learning how to write an essay begins by learning how to analyze essays written by others. 3. Deep thinking: Your essay will require insight of your own, genuine essay- writing brilliance. View it like questions and answer . Meditate with a pen in your hand. 4. Thesis: Pick your best idea and pin it down in a clear assertion that you can write your entire essay around. Your thesis is your main point, summed up in a concise sentence that lets the reader know where you're going, and why. It's practically impossible to write a good essay without a clear thesis. 5. Outline: Sketch out your essay. Use one-line sentences to describe paragraphs, and bullet points to describe what each paragraph will contain. 6. Introduction: now start writing . The introduction should grab the reader's attention, set up the issue, and lead in to your thesis. In the first paragraph you either hook the reader's interest or lose it (Note: The title and first paragraph are probably the most important elements in your essay. This is an essay-writing point that doesn't always sink in within the context of the classroom. In the first paragraph you either hook the reader's interest or lose it. Of course your teacher, who's getting paid to teach you how to write an essay, will read the essay you've written regardless, but in the real world, readers make up their minds about whether or not to read your essay by glancing at the title alone.) 7. Paragraphs: Each individual paragraph should be focused on a single idea that supports your thesis. Begin paragraphs with topic sentences, support assertions with evidence, and expound your ideas in the clearest, most sensible way you can. 8. Conclusion: end your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action. Is there something you want the reader to do? Let him or her know exactly what.