university essay structure
Writing a Body Paragraph
Writing an Introduction
After researching and further developing your ideas, you can begin to transfer these into an essay structure. Thinking about the brainstorming activity earlier, the arguments against a global language outweighed the arguments for a global language. Therefore, it would be logical that the ideas in the essay emphasise the arguments against. This doesn’t mean that you can’t write an assignment that makes the case for a global language. However, if you would like to do this, then you would need to go back to the brainstorming stage and find other ideas to support your argument.
Read the sentences on the right. Drag and drop each into the correct area in the Essay Structure. Sometimes it is easier to first identify which one is the thesis statement for the introduction, and which one summarises the ideas for the conclusion.
The obvious place to start is at the assignment question itself. From the question you can develop your answer in the form of a thesis statement. From there you can decide what your essay’s subtopics will be and what you want to say about them. After you have a basic idea of what you want to talk about, you can begin to write the essay.
It is really important to plan your essay before you begin writing. Planning will save you time later. It is also essential that you have a starting point to plan from, even if it is in a very rough form.
They follow a particular structure: you will set out your argument in the introduction, build and present your argument in the main body, and should end with your overall key message or argument in the conclusion.
Essays are usually written in a discursive style, bringing together ideas, evidence and arguments to address a specific problem or question.
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References:
http://www.wgtn.ac.nz/student-learning/studyhub/online-learning-modules/academic-writing/essay-structure
http://owll.massey.ac.nz/assignment-types/essay-planning-and-structure.php
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14011/writing/112/essay_writing
http://www.brad.ac.uk/academic-skills/workshops/workshops/assignment-writing/structure/
http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/14011/writing/112/essay_writing