It may seem that learning how to write an essay is a confusing or infuriating process, but it is not at all so. It is rather interesting to master it, and once you have learnt the pattern and manner of presentation, it will certainly ignite your interest in essay, it will be funny too.
Just go through the following simple and orderly steps, and try them in your topic of interest.
Research: Your first and foremost duty is to decide a topic, then gather knowledge on the topic from the internet, academic databases and books from the library. Take notes on the things you appear important to you, and think yourself an expert.
Analysis: Now based on your knowledge start analysing the arguments of the topics from different sources. Logically and clearly judge the claims; write down the reasons and evidence. Mark the strong as well as weak logics, and from them you will gather an idea of developing a topic into an essay.
Brainstorming: Now cast your insight on the topic. Ask yourself many probable questions and try to answer them logically. In your study, sit to write down something on the topic, if you fail, walk or be in your own flexible poses and positions; continue thinking until you discover something that you feel to be original insights to write about.
Thesis: Another important step is to record your discoveries. Pick your ideas and put them down in your copy. Those ideas will be the foundation of your essay. In course of all these processes, you will have many ideas––logical and illogical; attractive and less-attractive; interesting and uninteresting. Now it is time to judge them by your own logic.
Outline: Be patient to sketch your essay before attempting to write it down straightway. Write heading sentences and highlight the subject matter that will contain each paragraph. Before you start writing, be sure that from introduction to the conclusion, you have made a draft based on your own logical ideas, and each paragraph is unified. Motivate on the title and introduction again, and ensure that they well-devised to attract the reader’s attention. If not, then try to modify or rewrite these taking some more time. After you are satisfied with it, settle your mind to write the essay.
Introduction: Now you should write down the essay at a stretch. Try to begin the introduction with a sentence that you think is potent to draw the reader’s attention. The introduction will demonstrate your views and insight on the topic, and naturally the reader will hear your voice. Maybe it will fail to fulfil its objective at the initial effort. But your readers will give you feedback that will help you carry on your attempts to master this art.
Paragraphs: Next point is that you should pay attention to your successive paragraphs whether they are concentrated on the same topic logically and symmetrically. You should also ensure that they are well connected and express your views clearly and sensibly.
Conclusion: Now in the conclusion, sum up all your views, ideas, and insights within a few compact sentences and finish you essay with a sudden strike, but must have a clinching effect on the whole that can easily leave a deep impression on the reader’s mind. At the end of the conclusion, you add a suitable quotation, some call to action or an interesting twist of logic.
MLA Style: Based on the correct guidelines for citation, edit and format your essay. Make sure that ideas and quotations are cited appropriately in your essay, and follow the pagination guidelines. In this regard, the popular MLA Style is best.
Language: The most striking step is the last one which decides the acceptability of your essay. Language is of great importance, because if your language has no grammatical, and punctuation accuracy, it will fail to convey your message. So, assure that your essay is free from language defects, like asymmetry of thoughts; mistakes of collocation i.e. appropriate use of word pairs, idioms, phrases, appropriate prepositions and phrasal verbs, and spelling mistakes. Above all, always try to express your ideas in simple and short sentences, because these will ensure your grammatical accuracy and help you make your essay compact and to the point.