Home And Writing Resources And Strategies For Essay Writing

Skip to main content Writing Project Writing Program NEWSTUTORINGRESOURCESBLOGSTAFF HOME / WRITING RESOURCES / STRATEGIES FOR ESSAY WRITING / Essay Structure Writing an academic essay means fashioning a coherent set of ideas into an argument. Because essays are essentially linear—they offer one idea at a time—they must present their ideas in the order that makes most sense to a reader. Successfully structuring an essay means attending to a reader s logic. The focus of such an essay predicts its structure. It dictates the information readers need to know and the order in which they need to receive it. Thus your essay s structure is necessarily unique to the main claim you re making. Although there are guidelines for constructing certain classic essay types (e.g., comparative analysis), there are no set formula. Answering Questions: The Parts of an Essay A typical essay contains many different kinds of information, often located in specialized parts or sections. Even short essays perform several different operations: introducing the argument, analyzing data, raising counterarguments, concluding. Introductions and conclusions have fixed places, but other parts don t. Counterargument, for example, may appear within a paragraph, as a free-standing section, as part of the beginning, or before the ending. Background material (historical context or biographical information, a summary of relevant theory or criticism, the definition of a key term) often appears at theShow MoreRelatedStudy Guide1489 Words   |  6 PagesContact /Instructional hours: 45 (45 Theory) Prerequisite(s): GS1145: Strategies for the Technical Professional or equivalent -1- Composition I SYLLABUS COURSE SUMMARY COURSE DESCRIPTION This course examines phases of the writing process, with emphasis on the structure of writing and techniques for communicating clearly, precisely and persuasively. MAJOR INSTRUCTIONAL AREAS 1. Writing Process A. 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