The title of your essay tells your reader about your topic, but the introduction with its first sentence stir his/her heart whether to continue reading the essay or not. So, introduction must be the spearhead of your essay. The conclusion too is equally important as the introduction is, because it gives the reader a logically satisfying exit that the reader wishes to gather from the essay. Hence, these two paragraphs must be written with strategically and methodically.
Introduction Start to draw attention. The attention arrester you use is naturally your own, but here are some ideas:
1. Remarkable Information: This is not the new information but common, true and well-known one, but it must be relevant to the topic. It may be a quotation or a proverb with the intention of beginning the essay with an extra value to it. In this regard, you have to write one or two sentences in the introduction paragraph in relation to it.
2. Anecdote: An anecdote effectively opens an essay, but its careful use bears the intended result. An anecdote is a brief story-like statement that signifies a relevant topic or explains a relevant point.
3. Dialogue: Use of a dialogue as an opener is also highly effective to a relevant topic. The dialogue itself tells the reader its objective that the writer is trying to present in relation to the topic. Use only two to three exchanges of the speakers’ conversation. If you introduce your essay with a dialogue, you must elaborate it in the introductory paragraph in one or two sentences that will represent the connection.
4. Summary Information: A summary information also plays an opener role. It must consist of only few compact sentences that will gently lead the reader into the topic.
Conclusion
This paragraph ensures the acceptability of your essay, as it leads your reader to the end which will sum up his/her expectation from your topic.
The conclusion does not need any specific rule to make it interesting. Just sum up all the ideas treated in the essay with logical resolution only four to five sentences. Take care that the last sentence clearly expresses your clinching voice. But you can add a quotation, or a relevant statement for emphasising your insight.
Finishing Touch After you have completed your essay, check the paragraphs whether they are okay; if not, format them.
Review the Sequence of your Paragraphs
Now identify the weak and strong paragraphs according to construction. Then try to improve the weak ones into strong ones. If the order too appears asymmetrical and lacking complete sense throughout the essay, format it and bring the symmetry you think is appropriate.
Review the Instructions for the Assignment
Make sure whether the following points are rightly mentioned before you prepare your final draft.
i. Are the margins correct?
ii. Is your title correct as per the direction?
iii. What extra information you have provided?
iv. Have you double spaced your lines?
Review writing
There is no alternative to revision of your work. Check what you have improved by reviewing the essay. Improve the weak points, take care least you missed anyone, because these will be vital for your essay.
i. Do you think your essay has a logical sense? If you are not sure, leave it for a few hours, and then read it again to be sure.
ii. Do your sentences have an orderly flow? If not, check them and try to improve up to your expectation. In this respect, the linking words like, ‘however’, ‘moreover’, ‘therefore’ sometimes make sentences well knitted. Be sure that these words are not missing in your paragraphs that help you making your construction compact.
iii. How do you check your spelling and grammar––by spelling checker or grammar checker? Don’t depend on these; these very often fail to check mistakes throughout a piece of writing. So, meticulous and patient editing will help you confident of your work that the work is correct.