Essay writing guide for beginners
An essay is a subjective matter. If you want to make a quality essay, you should speak your mind freely (and competently) and adhere to conversational style.
To create an original essay all you need to do is to note the following recommendations and follow the basic concept of essay paper. If you would still face any complexities with a proper composition, you can try taking one of the samples on specialized sites. The best paper writing services usually offer a wide variety of options from theme choosing to entire work composing to assist you with the writing.
Starting hints
These tips were designed to help you to do the hardest part of any creative work – beginning. Because sometimes a person may have difficulties with simply formulating a first sentence of the text even if he is great in thoughts expression. So here are the tips, make sure to check it every time you face the writer’s block.
- Don’t know how to attract the reader’s attention? Try asking him (and yourself) a question. That question will be a pillar of your entire essay, and you’ll build it up trying to find and prove an answer.
- By the way, no matter how you start your essay, you need to be clear about the main idea of the topic and your relation to it. All that you write will either verify your thought or deny it (if it serves your goal).
- Still don’t know how to start? Don’t. You can begin by crafting the main body of your essay and come back to the introduction later. You’ll be surprised how easy it will be when you already have the argumentation part ready.
- Don’t digress on extraneous affairs and write down everything, that comes into your head. Write down each thought on the topic, not thinking about grammar or spelling. You’ll be amazed by how intensively your brain may work when you don’t restrain it with any limitations. Analyze everything you’ve written and try to build logic phrases and then a text. Repeat until the paragraph is ready.
Classical structure
If you don’t know how to structurize your thoughts for the essay, there is always a simple three-step scheme.
Part I – Introduction
The introduction is a small catchy statement presented in a few phrases. Its main purpose is to set the needed emotional tone, describe the problem and give a short but unconditional opinion comment. The topic (or – the problematic) may be expressed by quotation, directive proposition, rhetorical question or something else. Just remember to focus on catching reader’s attention first, and adding wordy flesh piece by piece later.
Part II – Main body
As it was said earlier – you are free to write an essay in any convenient form. But if it is convenient for you having a strict text formation, then the advice for this part is to concentrate on the background of the issue. Try to discuss different points of view as if you were arguing with someone and writing down the arguments. Before you start proving the idea, you’ve chosen, try to find some opposite opinions and partly endorse them (there is no absolute truth), thus your reasoning will have a higher value.
For classical scheme paragraph organization in the main part looks like this: proposition (the idea you are proving), substantiation (the facts based on personal or other experience that prove your idea) and partial answer on the question of the topic (a short summary based on the idea you’ve proved/refuted). Argumentation is not something you invent in your mind, but facts which you should quote maybe even mentioning the source. The sources are:
- your personal life occasions;
- events you’ve captured;
- science researches;
- literature (you can make an example from some instructive book situation).
Part III – Conclusion
The conclusion is a part where you give a precise answer on a main question of your essay (which is appropriate to repeat here). Your goal is to make your thoughts complete and gracefully finish the text but in perfect – try to make a reader remember your conclusions.