“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by” (Douglas Adams). Very often students are faced with deadlines. Specifically teachers love to assign writing essays. Every student has to write essays and every child in the United States has to go to school. Therefore, you will almost definitely have to write an essay at one point or another. You are not the only student to have to write an essay, and you won’t be the last. Even though there are others out there who suffer from writing assignments like you, learning how to write well can make the pain a little less agonizing. The pain reliever in writing essays is knowing the outline of how to write one. The basic layout of an essay includes an Introduction, a few Body paragraphs, …show more content…
You get to start writing about the subject you were the assigned. Start every Body paragraph with a topic sentence. A topic sentence is the sentence at the beginning of your paragraph that explains what you are writing about in the following paragraph. Then you can continue from the topic sentence to your subject matter. When you talk about whatever it is that you have been assigned the essay for, you might want to use evidence to support your point. Outside evidence that comes from anywhere except your own mind has to be cited in the format that your teacher asks you to. After you have addressed your subject matter you should end each paragraph with a concluding sentence that reiterates what you just talked about and transitions into the next paragraph. Don’t forget to include a works cited page and transition sentences. After you have written a few Body paragraphs, then you continue on your adventure to the concluding paragraph. The Conclusion paragraph is the paragraph that you restate your thesis, the sentence that explains what you wrote about. Though you should be careful not to repeat your thesis statement. You should instead reiterate your subject to the reader and clarify any points you thought were muddied during your essay. The Conclusion is the last paragraph your reader will read so make sure you are leaving them with what you want them to remember. So, how much of this essay did you really pay attention