help on my essay?

Question

i need to know what are the steps to write an essay

Answer 1

The traditional format of an essay is 5 paragraphs. The 1st paragraph is the introduction in whcih you tell the reader what you are going to talk about. The next 3 paragraphs giving supporting details to your topic. If it is infomrational, it would include quotes and sources and examples. If it is a narrative it would de scribe an event. The last paragraph is the summat, referred to as the conclusion. It restates teh topic sentence and sums up your ideas.

There are 2 ways to remember this format when you are writing, 1) Think of a hamburger: The bun is the intro, the meat, lettuce and tomato are 3 details, and the bottom bun is the end, the conclusion.

2) Look at your hand, you can trace it on paper. The thumb in hte beginning, the intro, the fingers are the 3 detailed paragrapbs, and the pinky is the conclusion.

Answer 2

There are many different ways, the more you write, the more you'll discover which approach suits you the best.

If to start from the very beginning:
1. Understand the question (of which you'll be writing about.)
2. Research on it.
3. Brainstorm. i.e. What ideas appeal to you. What particular points you want to further expand on in the essay.
4. Outlining your ideas from what you've brainstormed. E.g. plot out how idea A should flow into idea B.
5. Start writing! Some people find it easier to start writing from the middle (the content of your essay). Some people do it from the beginning to the end. Whichever way you might apply, the key is to start writing, because you might hit the flow sooner than you think.

Of course, most conventional essays are split into parts.

1. The introduction (a brief description on where the direction of your essay is heading.)
2. Content: Your arguments (This is where your research and brainstorming come in.)
3. Conclusion (further reinforce your introduction with added emphasis on your point.)

I am probably missing some steps here, because these are just off of my head, but the more you write, the more you'll realize there aren't any set steps.

Good luck, and long live the art of creative writing!

Answer 3

depends on the essay. the best way i have found, is just to write and write about the topic, as if you were talking about it, and brainstorm. Then arrange your arguments, thoughts, with the research you have done.
Make an interesting and catchy intro, put all the interesting stuff you wrote/researched earlier in the middle (three ideas/points will be fine) and explain them, (so it will be one paragraph each), and finally make a conclusion summarizing all of the info and final thought in a couple sentences.

So it will be 5 paragraphs total. Intro, body (3 paragraphs), and conclusion.

Good luck! :)

Answer 4

How to Write an Essay: 10 Easy Steps
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
-- John Steinbeck


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Brief Overview of the 10 Essay Writing Steps
Below are brief summaries of each of the ten steps to writing an essay. Select the links for more info on any particular step, or use the blue navigation bar on the left to proceed through the writing steps. How To Write an Essay can be viewed sequentially, as if going through ten sequential steps in an essay writing process, or can be explored by individual topic.

1. Research: Begin the essay writing process by researching your topic, making yourself an expert. Utilize the internet, the academic databases, and the library. Take notes and immerse yourself in the words of great thinkers.

2. Analysis: Now that you have 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. Brainstorming: Your essay will require insight of your own, genuine essay-writing brilliance. Ask yourself a dozen questions and answer them. Meditate with a pen in your hand. Take walks and think and think until you come up with original insights to write about.

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 before straightway writing it out. Use one-line sentences to describe paragraphs, and bullet points to describe what each paragraph will contain. Play with the essay's order. Map out the structure of your argument, and make sure each paragraph is unified.

6. Introduction: Now sit down and write the essay. The introduction should grab the reader's attention, set up the issue, and lead in to your thesis. Your intro is merely a buildup of the issue, a stage of bringing your reader into the essay's argument.

(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. Speak to your reader as if he or she were sitting in front of you. In other words, instead of writing the essay, try talking the essay.

8. Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action. Is there something you want the reader to walk away and do? Let him or her know exactly what.

9. MLA Style: Format your essay according to the correct guidelines for citation. All borrowed ideas and quotations should be correctly cited in the body of your text, followed up with a Works Cited (references) page listing the details of your sources.

10. Language: You're not done writing your essay until you've polished your language by correcting the grammar, making sentences flow, incoporating rhythm, emphasis, adjusting the formality, giving it a level-headed tone, and making other intuitive edits. Proofread until it reads just how you want it to sound. Writing an essay can be tedious, but you don't want to bungle the hours of conceptual work you've put into writing your essay by leaving a few slippy misppallings and pourly wordedd phrazies..

You're done. Great job. Now move over Ernest Hemingway — a new writer is coming of age! (Of course Hemingway was a fiction writer, not an essay writer, but he probably knew how to write an essay just as well.)

Answer 5

I am like you I always need help on my essay, what I do is go online and check out the format of the outlines of a essay, but first I write down what I am going to talk about, then write my intorduction I always start backwards it works for me. But look at examples then go online and check stuff on your topic to get ideas. well I hope this works.........

Answer 6

Go to your local writing center. The students are trained tutors and they can give you practical suggestions to improve your writing. Better yet, write a very polished rough draft and bring it to your professor's office hours. Even the best students can benefit from bringing their work in to discuss with the professor because you can always learn more from one-on-one interactions than from large group lectures. Try both of these strategies and I am sure you will be able to write an A+ paper.

Answer 7

I know this is kinda lame but I remember like a cheeseburger:
Bun= Intro
Cheese= First paragraph
Pickels=Second paragraph
Meat=Thrid Paragragp
Bun=Conclusion

Answer 8

http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/essay/

Answer 9

Intro (You may mention why do you choose that particular subject)
Developing and Research.
Conclusions

Don't forget to credit the sources!!!

Answer 10

Go here, please:http://www.aucegypt.edu/academic/writers/about.htm