How Do You Write An Essay?

Back when I was in high-school, a couple of people on the school newspaper went around the school asking people how they wrote an essay.  Needless to say, the subject matter of the piece was excessively boring and didn’t make the final cut.  But, I still think it’s an interesting question.
How do you write an [...]

A Tip on Rewriting Essays

By complete accident, I found a very nice way to rewrite essays!
I was writing the rough draft to my essay for Lit. class in my school computer lab, and I couldn’t get it to save to computer so I could email myself, I could only print it. Because of that, I had to rewrite my [...]

Essay Writing: Introductory Paragraphs

This is the first part of a multi-part series on essay writing.

Your typical essay is split into three distinct sections: the introduction, the body, and the conclusion. For this post, I’m just going to concentrate on writing that introductory paragraph.
So first, what’s the purpose of an introduction? With an introduction, you are trying [...]