Drafting Essay: Structure
As you draft
your paper, keep an outline
of your topic and supporting ideas next to you as a guide. You will need to
have an outline written out to help keep you from overlapping ideas, repeating
yourself, and to keep you moving in the most positive direction to prove your
point of view on an issue.
OUTLINE
Refer to your outline as
the skeleton—the structured strength—of the essay you will write.
[Use these links for
outline help: Outline
Guidance, Introduction
Structure / Outline, Body-Paragraph
Structure / Outline, and Conclusion
Structure / Outline.]
DRAFT
As you write the paper,
you will add flesh to the skeleton—argument clarity, support, and analysis of
the issue—while sticking to the preset organizational structure and flow from
the outline.
Use these links
for essay help: [INTRODUCTION]
Everything
You Need to Know about Introductions, [BODY] Body-paragraph
Tutorial: 3-minute Video, Hamburger
Method--Drafting Your Essay, and Signs of
Trouble--Letting Sources Lead Instead of Follow Your Writing [COUNTERARGUMENT]
Counter-Argument:
The Turn Against and Back [CONCLUSION] Concluding
Your Paper, Three
Parts to a Conclusion, and Conclusions
(Drafting Your Essay) [CREATE A TITLE] Creating
a Correct Title for Your Writing and Creating
a Great Essay Title
Paragraph Organization
An academic writing should maintain formal
structure and flow to assist the reader with the intense content being
expressed in the pages. Typically,
academic writing is argument writing.
This means that a point is going to be proven in the essay, and to do
this, clear flow of ideas and paragraph organization is required for top-notch
writing.
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
paragraphs serve the purpose of introducing the topic or issue. Therefore, this paragraph is not very long—nor
will it have sourced content. You are
not beginning the argument in this paragraph.
The introduction is where you present the concept that ‘will’ be argued
in the body paragraphs. An introduction
has three parts: ‘hook,’
concept
overview, and thesis.
While you could use a quote in your ‘hook’ sentence, it is best to write the
entire introduction in your own words and ideas, lading up to the thesis. For more information about introduction
organization and structure, visit this link: https://learnessaystrategies.blogspot.com/2019/01/introduction-content_29.html.
BODY
Body
paragraphs serve the purpose of presenting issues surrounding a specific
topic and arguing a viewpoint relating to that issue. Body paragraphs are mostly in your words,
since they are ‘your’ argument. However,
you will add in outside source content to defend what you have been arguing in
the paragraph. Once you add in the support
for your argument, you then add in a few sentences that fully explain to the
audience how that content supports and strengthens your argument. In this way, you have argued and supported a
viewpoint that readers will not be able to dispute—if it is done well. Body paragraphs contain 5 basic parts, and
therefore, they are a minimum of 5 sentences.
See this link for more help with the organization
of argument body paragraphs: https://learnessaywriting.blogspot.com/p/hamburger-method-drafting-your-essay.html,
and see this link for help with the structure
of counter-argument body paragraphs: https://learnessaywriting.blogspot.com/p/counter-arguments-youare-struggling.html.
CONCLUSION
The Conclusion
paragraph is a very short paragraph—similar to the Introduction paragraph—that
consists of only 3 sections: restatement (new words) of thesis, summary of
overall argument points from body paragraphs, and ‘release’ of the audience
with a memorable call to action or urgency over the issue. Many writers see this layout as the reverse
of what was presented in the Introduction, but it is filled with all new
content.
REVISIT THESIS
The last sentence of the Introduction
was the thesis. Here, in the conclusion,
the first sentence is a rewording of the thesis to bring the overall concept
back into the audiences’ minds.
WRAP-UP ARGUMENT
Then, the middle section
of the conclusion wraps up what was argued, and this is similar to how the
middle section of the Introduction provided general ideas relating to the issue;
however, in this case, there are now specific, arguable ideas about the issue
that are being wrapped up.
‘RELEASE’
Finally, there is the ‘release’
sentence of the paragraph. This is the
opposite to what started the introduction paragraph. In the Introduction paragraph, the first
sentence ‘hook’ed the audience. Here,
you ‘release’ the audience and send them on their way with newly found insights
into the issue.
For
more clarity on Conclusion
paragraphs, visit this link: https://learnessaywriting.blogspot.com/p/three-parts-to-conclusion-restate.html.
OVERVIEW
For
assistance with your writing, please visit the links below. It is imperative that young writers and first-
and second-year college students follow the structure listed above
perfectly. As writers mature, they may
want to adjust this strict pattern a little bit when it impedes the argument or
overall creative flow. However, some
things will always remain constant…
place the thesis
as the last sentence of the introduction paragraph,
craft a clear topic
sentence for each body paragraph to begin the paragraph with a focused argument
direction,
wrap-up each body
paragraph with a closing sentence that directly refers to the topic
sentence of a given body paragraph, and finally,
‘release’
the audience in a memorable and intriguing way so that your argument will
remain with them long after they have put your writing away.
WEBSITE
LINKS
Learn more about essay STRUCTURE: https://learnessaywriting.blogspot.com/
Learn more about essay CONTENT: https://learnessaystrategies.blogspot.com/
Learn more about essay FORMAT: https://fgc-enc1210.blogspot.com/
Learn more about STANDARD ENGLISH: http://learnstandardenglish.blogspot.com/
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