Academic Essay Structures and Formats

When beginning to write an essay everyone has their own method of doing so. Some may like to brainstorm while others may prefer to go straight into writing about their topic. I personally beginning every essay by collecting ideas about my topic before coordinating them into a type of diagram, next I proceed to do my rough draft before revising over the paper and finally composing my final draft. The point of the writing process is to help break everything down so ideas can be organized and everything can make perfect sense for not just the writer but also the reader.

Outline, planning, revising, rough and final draft, grading. This is the typical process for writing an essay, I however as a young high school student never followed this. I started with an idea in my head and go on from there. I never considered a need to plan and prepare an outline, just to write a rough draft that I would have to revise, draft, and draft again. It would just be easier to start writing the final draft first right? No. This class has taught me many strategies on how to accustom my writing to a college level. Over the semester in this class I have grown, learned how to effectively draft, and experienced argumentative writing first hand.

“The Loss of the Creature” is an anecdotal essay by the American Southern philosopher Walker Percy. Percy has a different view of life and expresses his views distinctively through his writing. Throughout the essay, he emphasized on the effects of having prepackaged or preconceived notions about the world and people around can determine how an individual sees the world. These notions, which can come from social or societal expectations, can lead to symbolic complexes in an individual’s mind, leading to the false appreciation and gratification. An overarching theme throughout the essay is that one’s pre-formed expectations and can lead to the loss of the essence behind it. In order to demonstrate his point; Percy uses hypothetical characters in theoretical situations to prove how people can truly experience something if they get rid of all social biases and prejudices, and neglecting what they heard about it.

I feel that I am a very smart student, or I would not have made it this far; and I already knew the definition of an essay; which is a piece of writing with a point or argument. Yet at the beginning of the semester I had never really given much thought to how many different types of essays there were, and I knew very little about the components that would make these sort of writings a success. However, during the semester I learned that an essay can be written from any perspective, yet it is most commonly written in the view of the first person, or third person. Likewise I knew that an essay is composed of an introductory, three bodies, and a conclusion, but there is so much more to an essay. For example the first paragraph of an essay's primary purpose is to introduce the thesis and

There are many components involved in the writing process that are important to incorporate in your essay to make it a strong well constructed piece. Knowledge about the writing process is needed in order to succeed. Without the proper the knowledge there will be no direction throughout the paper. There are many different ways to write, but it is necessary to include in depth research, a strong thesis that pulls your audience into the paper, and organizational skills to create a backbone for a strong complete essay.

I really worked hard to learn how to format an essay. It is a big factor in learning how to write an essay. What is the format? The format of an essay starts with a paragraph that introduces the topic. The next part is to continue with the body of the paper. It is used to introduce what you will be talking about with evidence, and analysis. The final sentence is used to wrap up the end of that paragraph. The last step is your concluding paragraph. It restates your topic and should wrap up the whole essay with a strong ending. I have seen an improvement in my grades through the year by using this format to write an essay. When using formats to write essays it helps keep you organized and stay on track with what your essay will be

There are several steps to follow when writing college essays. A student must follow them, so essays can be written correctly. These are the steps that a student must follow in order to get a good grade on a paper. A Students must make sure to put lots of descriptive details and information in their essays. The three concepts a student needs to evaluate their college essay are called coherence, unity, and support.

While sitting in church on a summer Sunday morning my eager eighth grader self was ready to hear what my favorite Priest Father Matthew was going to say for the homily. “Good morning everyone,” Father Mathew projects filling up the whole cathedral. Slightly startled, I sit up straight with my legs crossed. Usually the homily will go on and on explaining how we need profess our faith and be kinds but this time was different. But today was different. Father Matthew started to talk about apples. Confused and a little taken back I was wondering how in the world apples related to my faith. He begins to explain how apples are a symbol for knowledge, growth, temptation, the fall of man and sin. “An apple represents the good and bad in a person's life,” Father Matthew remarked. “We are not perfect apples but, we learn from growth in our interpersonal lives”

The process in which I choose to write is by creating my thesis statement paragraph, outline my essay, and prepare my rough draft. When creating my thesis statement I think of my main points to talk about. I then think of how I can make my thesis as clear as possible while giving it significance. After my thesis is complete, I begin making an outline for my essay. The thesis acts as my foundation and it guides my writing and organization of the entire essay. Once I have a general idea of how I will format my essay, I begin to write my rough draft. Being in this class I have several drafts that I have transitioned from which made my essay stronger. I find the writing process to really important because it gives me a general idea of what I am

In order for a writer to be able to present their views to others they must assimilate the writing process into three steps. An essay should have an introductory paragraph where a writer states their thesis, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Within each step are many factors that are involved in how a writer will express their understanding about the subject. Several of these steps are overlapping and can vary because each individual brings a different view of the situation.

There are five key elements in an essay. The analysis, introduction, thesis, support, and conclusion. The first paragraph of an essay is the introduction. The introduction will catch the reader's attention and will give them an understanding of what the essay is going to be about. In the introduction contains the thesis. The thesis statement is the main idea of the essay. For example, "Cats are better house pets than dogs." In the second paragraph, it will include the support and analysis. The analysis is the reasoning behind the thesis statement. It will explain why, for example, "cats are better than dogs." Then comes in the support. The support will back up the analysis with examples and quotes to prove the point. In the third paragraph,

American Psychological Association (APA) writing style exists for a reason and this reason is because writers' must give “credibility where credibility is due”(Walden Writing Center, 2015) . During my BSW program I learned this and also, the importance of integrity in college level writing. In my opinion, two aspects of APA that I think will not challenge me are direct quotations and listing references. I have to admit I prefer to quote intellecutual matter directly rather than, use paraphazing. I believe this is approriate to do if the quote you utilize is short and all of your agrguments regarding, the content of the quote, are your own ideas. Another thing that will come easily to me is listing my references. This comes easily to me because during my undergraduate education, I excelled in this area. The reason for this is because everytime I wrote a reference page I always refered to my courses APA manual.

Before the essay is written, I like to now, due to this class, use an outline. This is much more effective then my past method, which consist mostly of writing all of my information in bullets, and linking them all to a few main ideas. The outline allows me to organize my thoughts in an orderly fashion and this reflects through my paper because it is also orderly. For

As a Spanish speaking native, I had difficulty with writing essays in English. I grew up taking English classes throughout all my school life, in Puerto Rico, but it was just basic level. My last English college course was with a US 5th grade book, so you can imagine how basic was that course. It was a drastic change from that type of course to this level of English Composition. This course, albeit short, has teaches me a lot about the mechanics and grammar that writing an essay entails. Before this course, I use to choose the topic, looked some of the information I needed it, and started writing without a goal or any definition, in terms of process. Now, I know that I have to choose the topic, do the research, develop a thesis statement, outline

In order to teach essay writing to students, proper modeling is required for essay formats and analysis. A form that teachers can utilize in the classroom is the TEEL (Technique, example, effect, link) model (See Appendix 2.). However, students will work in groups to construct their understanding of textual themes and features that are explored in Life of Pi (Outcomes 2, 5, 12A). Normally, TEEL structures are associated to teacher-centred pedagogy and utilize paper-based learning with limited interaction from teacher to students and collaborations between students, which can deter student motivations in the classroom (Elen et al., 2007; Jones 2007). By using interaction and group-based learning the teacher will be able to