10 steps to writing a good essay in English

10 steps to writing a good essay in English
July 30, 2021 12:27PM

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Research
Start writing an essay with your own research on the topic, show yourself as an expert on the essayup reviews. Read other people's work. You can use other sources of information - Internet, various academic works, libraries. Take brief notes, gather information, immerse yourself in the thoughts of great scientists, thinkers and just smart people.

Analysis
Now that you have a sufficient knowledge base, begin to analyze the arguments and arguments presented in the essays you read. Clearly define the requirements, write out the grounds and obvious points. Try to find weak and strong points in the authors' logic. Remember: to learn how to write an essay in English (as, indeed, in any other language), you need to analyze the work written by others.

Brainstorming
Your essay requires you to understand your own genius. Ask yourself some questions and answer them. Meditate, with pen in hand. You can walk around the room, and remember to think and think and think until an original idea strikes you that you can express in your essay. You can always generate ideas in Russian, but you should transfer your thoughts into English already at the stage of writing the essay.

Abstracts
Choose your best ideas, thoughts and catch yourself in the word that around this you can develop your thought. Theses are your anchor points, your main thoughts condensed into concise sentences that allow the reader to understand where your thoughts are coming from and why. You can't write an essay without highlighting clear talking points.

Outline
Make an outline of your work on paper. Use draft sentences to describe the paragraphs and the main idea those paragraphs will express. Play with the order of paragraphs and thoughts in your essay. Map your arguments and make sure the paragraphs are connected by meaning.

Introduction
Now sit down and start writing the clean version of your essay. The introduction should interest the reader. Establish the problem (the main question, the theme of the essay) and follow it in your thesis statement. The introduction is simply the beginning of the unfolding of the topic itself, a way of leading the reader to the main arguments. When you translate your thoughts into English, make sure you use the right words and expressions. If not, look up reference materials or discard complex expressions, replacing them with simpler ones. You can translate the essay either as you go along, right away, or at the end, translating the finished work from Russian into English.

Paragraphs
Each individual paragraph should focus on a particular thought, an idea that supports the thesis statement. Begin paragraphs with sentences on the topic, support the statements with illustrative examples, and state your thoughts in the clearest and most reasonable way possible. Talk to the reader as if he were sitting in front of you. In other words, try not to write, but to speak in essay form.

Conclusion
Gracefully end your essay with a brief summary, a conclusion. Then set the point with some memorable thought, perhaps a quote or an interesting twist of thought, or even a call to action. Do you want the reader to go and do something? Let him or her know what it is.

Don't forget the accepted MLA format
Format your essay in English, according to accepted citation rules. All ideas and quotations taken from other people's work should be referenced in the text and a list of references should be attached to the work.

Language
Since we are writing an essay in English, you need to be sure to follow all the rules and to use the words correctly. Watch the spelling, punctuation, stylistics of the text. Don't make too long sentences with a lot of punctuation marks. Get rid of those English words and expressions that you are not sure of their correct use. Your essay is ready. Feel free to send it in for review.
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