Developing Your Essay Writing

Developing Your Essay Writing Readers will get bored if you are writing on a dry subject matter. If your topic is just boring, you can bring some life in it by using, illustrations or statistics. People will understand better, rather than when you are trying to explain it in your own words. Take your time and organize the information you have in a logical narration based on the outline. If you don't care about reducing alcohol advertising, don't pick this topic for a persuasive essay. If you decide to write about something that matters to you, you will sound more convincing. And the reader will find the paper more interesting. Choose a topic that's appropriate to the paper’s length. Create a list at the end of the paper where you acknowledge all the books and articles you referred to in your own written piece. If you don’t cite the sources, you might be accused of plagiarism. At this stage of essay writing, focus primarily on the content. Instead, narrow it down to a more specific subject like one important incident in the women's rights movement. The more detailed your outline is, the easier it will be to flesh it out into a full-fledged essay by drawing connections between concepts and going into more in-depth analyses of your evidence. As you write and gather more evidence, your thesis statement may change â€" and that’s okay! No amount of glitter or '90s WordArt can make that property law essay more exciting. Writing essays is like paying bills â€" we all have to do it at certain points in our academic careers, and it's not always the most exciting experience. Sometimes it can be interesting, sometimes it can even be a relatively enjoyable experience if we like the subject matter, but it's usually not the top of our Fun Things To Do on Holidays list. To be honest, most of us have probably cleaned our rooms and done the dishes to put off writing an essay that little bit longer. Practice timed essay writing with sample test questions before test day. Thesis statements are not set in stone; they are meant to change as the paper develops. It is important to have a topic that is specific enough that finding sources is relatively easy, but broad enough that you can write many pages about it. As an example, I wrote a 12-page paper on the effect of World War II on the rights of women in American society. Had I selected a more vague topic like “American Women in the 1930s and 1940s”, it would have been a far more difficult essay to write. With a little practice, you may not feel as pressured by the clock on test day. Avoid losing focus and concentration in your essay. Avoid broad topics as you cannot cover them fully due to the limited number of words. If you're writing a four‐page essay, don't retell the whole history of women's rights. Another way of making your essay interesting and engaging to your reader is by using relevant evidence, such as statistics. The reader will see that you took your time to research and now you understand the point. If need be, keep checking the title of your essay to remind yourself to stick to the purpose of the essay. This will confuse your reader as you go back and forth with your ideas. As a writer, you also need to organize your paragraphs overall. An essay should be organized according to an internal logic wherein one idea leads logically to the next.