7 Top Tips to Become a Master Essay Writer
Writing an essay is one of the most difficult and challenging tasks students experience throughout their academic tenures. Besides a routine coursework task, an essay can also come for a contest, debate, or a scholarship. Whatever the purpose, the task never comes easy. Agreeably essay writing is a huge project while the best way to cater is by breaking down the project into bite-sized or manageable chunks. So how to achieve the so-called ‘unachievable’?
In this blog post, we are going to discuss some easy steps through which you can become a top essay writer in your class.
Choose a Topic:
It’s one of the two ways: either the topic will be assigned to you by your supervisor, or you will be given the freedom to write on the topic of your choice. If the topic is already decided, you need to think about the type of paper you’ll be writing. Is it a general overview of the topic? Or a detailed analysis of a specific portion of the chosen topic?
In other case, if you are asked to write on the topic of your own choice, then the effort is only going to take longer. However, this is the chance to write on the topic you had always taken as interesting and relevant for you. First clarify the purpose of your writing piece. Do you want to write a persuasive or an informative piece?
Once you are done defining the purpose, you need to dig some research on the topics that interest you. Consider your likes, preferences, and other academic and career considerations in writing down your topics.
Finally weigh your options. If your essay is persuasive, select the topic out of your passion. If the essay is educational, selecting a topic you’ve already studied will go well. Whatever the purpose, the topic should be purely engaging and tempting enough for you to write at length.
Create an Outline or Flow Chart of your Ideas:
You have a plethora of wild ideas you want to add in the essay, while the key is to organize those thoughts. By putting everything on paper, you’ll be able to see everything in a glance that could be connected. This will help you to understand ideas more clearly. You can always use a diagram or a flow chart to connect links among your ideas on a paper that will serve as the fundamental points for your essay writing.
So how to draw your ideas?
Start by writing the selected topic in the middle of the page. Draw about 3 to 5 lines protruding from the title written in the middle, these lines will represent each of your main idea. You can extend the same practice from each of the main idea line, only if you have a number of sub-ideas to include.
On the other hand, how to create an outline?
This time start by writing the topic at the top of the page. Now you can start stating your main ideas, while leaving a space under each one. The small places will comprise the supporting points under each main idea. This will mark the completion of the step that will act as the building block for a successful essay.
Your Thesis Statement:
Now that you’re done with the topic selection and idea placement diagrams or outline, it’s time to write the statement of your thesis. The statement will explain the point of your writing piece. Inspect your outline or flow chart and acknowledge the main ideas.
The thesis will be bifurcated in two parts: the first part includes the topic, and the second part will explain the essay point. For example, if the topic of your essay is about Adolf Hitler and his impact in World War 2, an appropriate thesis statement would be, “The impact of Adolf Hitler in World War 2 was extended beyond the nations who participated in the war”.
Create the body:
The body or main content of the essay comes in different natures, it could be either argumentative, descriptive, or explanatory. This is the moment you will write each main idea in great detail, where every idea would be a separate chunk of the main body.
Each paragraph in the body will be written in the same structure. Initiate by one of the main ideas as the introductory sentence. Then, extend each of your supporting pointers in the sentence format. However, be vigilant to leave ample space of 3 to 4 lines between each, you would want to come back and fill up the space with relevant examples pertaining to each point. The examples will help the supporting ideas to link with each other in a fluent manner.
Write the Introduction:
After you are done with writing the thesis statement and the body of your writing piece, you need to write an introduction. The introduction should be catchy enough to grasp the attention of the user in an instant and should clearly reflect the focus of your essay.
A captivating introduction could be anything from an astounding information, a dialogue, a character depicting a short story, a quote, or simply a summary of your topic. Whatever way you choose to write the introduction, make sure it connects authentically with your thesis statement (to be included as the concluding text in your introduction).
The Conclusion:
The conclusion will be the closing or the final perspective of your writing piece. However, you should use the strongest words in the 5 to 6 sentences conclusion. Simply speaking, all your main ideas will be summarized as a last glance in the conclusion.
Add the Final Considerations:
After writing the conclusion, some might think the essay is now 100% complete and all good to go. However, there are some tiny, yet critical considerations that are needed to be taken into account before calling it a complete writing piece.
See the paragraph placements are correct and you have used the most powerful and influential sentences in the first and last paragraphs. The order of the paragraphs is utterly important. Consider the following instance:
If your essay is to describe the process of software development, then replacing the paragraph of requirement gathering and analysis (1st phase) with the testing and maintenance (last phase) would be an absolute failure, no matter how much outclass technical information and terms you have used in the writing piece.
Furthermore, review the instructions provided by your instructors and different scholarship forms. You don’t want to write your essay in an indifferent way from the format and writing style instructed beforehand.
Finally go through the each content chunk you have written. Reread your paper to catch any grammatical or other content-related errors. Proofreading and editing are best practiced when done repeatedly, only to provide you a masterpiece of an essay writing.
Author Bio:
Madison Stones is a M.Ed. and has been working with some of the best educational institutions across the globe. Besides writing highly informative blogs on eLearning and other educational aspects for students and professionals, Madison is also an experienced essay writing service provider and has a proven track record of handling clients from various industries.
