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ESSAY

Writing and essay, you may think it’s hard but if you follow the steps I’m about to give you it will be a piece of cake. An essay is a written composition on any subject with any amount of words. You can write different types of essays, Write about something you discussed, your opinion on something, compare and contrast ideas, and I’m sure there are many more. Now I’m going to show you how to write one.

Preparing you wouldn’t even know what subject to write about if you didn’t prepare. There are three easy steps for preparing an essay, and they are, discuss, compare and contrast, and brainstorm. Think of all the ideas in your head and if you are working in a group share them. Compare and contrast all your crazy and smart ideas, and then brainstorm on what to write about.

When writing an essay the first thing you must remember is the structure. An essay there is a different type of structure than a story. In an essay you have the Introduction which states what you are going to be talking about a few body paragraphs that have different topics you’ve thought of and the conclusion which sums everything up, in a story you have the beginning middle and end, with the hook, rising action, climax, falling action, and the conclusion. In each essay paragraph you should have a topic sentence, it states what your sentence is about mine are all underlined. remember not to go of topic.

Your introduction this is what will make the readers interested in what they will be reading. If you didn’t have an introduction your teacher or whoever is reading you essay would have no idea what is going on. Here are some ideas on how to make sure you have a well led introduction. Make it interesting I know it isn’t a story but you can’t just write facts in the introduction and the essay. Make sure it isn’t cluttered, it’s just a short introduction and make sure it makes sense in and out of you head.

Your conclusion sums up your whole essay. so, it better be good. Be creative with your conclusion, the reader is probably getting tired so don’t put him to sleep at the last minute. You have to sum up every thing reason why you wrote what you wrote and answer any unanswered questions or else you might not have finished your whole essay.