When you are about to start an essay you should first do a rough draft. A rough draft can be built using an outline, free write, list, or a diagram. Your rough draft should practically be messy. Joan Didion said, "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means."
Your introduction should say what your body paragraphs will be about and point out the main idea which is the thesis. The body paragraphs develop support for your thesis. so always have a tentative thesis before you start writing. When its about time to wrap up your essay you write a paragraph that's called a conclusion. A conclusion helps the reader remember what the thesis is and what your essay talked about. By the time you write your conclusion your readers should have understood your main point. At the end of your conclusion you could give advice, an image, or a quote to wrap it all up.
Now that I read this chapter I understand why my rough draft didn't seem like an essay at all. I kept putting down ideas and didn't exactly point out the main idea or got to the point. I plan to do an outline and putting an idea in each body paragraph and writing down the ideas that fit in each paragraph. I want to start like a free write, once i have all my ideas i want to take out the useless information and find what the main idea is to make my thesis. Then finally editing my rough draft so i can do my final essay.
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