Posted on: April 10, 2017 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Any academic paper you have to write, whatever its type, must have a distinct structure. Essays are no exception from this rule, but what differs essays from all the other types of academic writing is more freedom for creativity. And while on one hand you may think that it’s great to have an opportunity to express yourself the way you want and think out of the box, on the other hand, more freedom means more difficulties. This is why it is essentially important to thoroughly elaborate a sound structure of your essay before you get to writing it.

Essay structure greatly depends on what kind of essay you are dealing with. Essay objectives, essay topics, essay type and size —all of this must be taken into account when you make up your work plan.

Of course, you can just think of what you want your paper to look like, trying to imagine its structure, but it will be much better to draft a sketchy plan. This will be your essay’s “skeleton” to build your work on.

 

Exemplary sample of essay writing structure

Regardless of what type of essay you are working on, there are items common for almost any essay. They include:

Introduction.

Just like conclusion, introduction usually takes no more than a paragraph or two. This is where you must introduce the topic of your essay to your reader (or readers) and announce the issue you want to explore.

Body of essay.

This is the most important part that needs much elaboration. Depending on type of your essay, it may have different structures, for example:

  • thesis statement — argument: you make a statement and then try to provide convincing arguments for it then make another statement and offer another argument, and so on. This is a usual structure for argumentative essay;
  • inverted structure: you offer facts, arguments and examples and then make a conclusive statement;
  • thesis statement with several arguments: there is only one large thesis and several arguments to illustrate your point of view.

 

Conclusion.

This is where you summarize everything you have said earlier, draw a bottom line and help your reader(s) make conclusions you were leading them to in the previous parts of your essay.

 

How to write essay can become a lesser issue (or no issue at all) once you understand what kind of structure it should have. Start with the hardest part — your essay body. Determine what kind of thesis statements you will use, and then choose arguments for each of them. Place your thesis statements in logical sequence (simple to complex, for example). After you have all this figured out, writing an introduction and a conclusion will be no problem at all.

 

When it comes to writing custom essays, and essay structure in particular, there can hardly be any generally perfect solutions. However, you can always work out a plan that will be perfectly suitable for you and your purposes as an essay author.

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