How To Write An Essay

Writing an essay may seem like a huge obstacle to overcome, but with a plan of attack and a little organization, it can be easily completed. All it takes is seven easy steps.

The first step in your writing process is to just sit and think. If your essay is on an assigned topic, sit and think about what approach you will have to the subject, if it’s possible to take a position on it. If you are allowed to decide on the topic, you can take it in any direction and decide on a purpose. This purpose can be to tell someone how to do something, present information you have collected on your favorite subject, or even entertain the audience who will be reading it. Once who have brainstormed some ideas, examine each one and decide which one you will be able to produce the best quality work and get your point across in the specified length you are given.

Once you have chosen a topic or an angle to approach a topic, your next step is to outline or make a plan of action of what you plan to write about. This can be just jotting down everything that comes to your head or making a standard outline using numerals to put ideas into subsections of a bigger, main idea.

Now you are ready to sit down and put all of your ideas together in essay form in your first draft. As this is just your rough basis to organize your ideas better, paying attention to any grammatical kind of errors is not a very big deal, a...