- Decide on the subject of your essay.
- Choose the fundamental idea, or thesis, of your essay. For example: Mobile Phones have changed the way we live.
- Outline your essay into introductory, body and summary paragraphs.
- The introductory paragraph begins with an appealing sentence.
- After this first sentence, add your thesis statement from above.
- Use one sentence to set up every body paragraph to follow.
- Finish the introductory paragraph with a short synopsis or goal statement.
- In all of the body paragraphs the ideas first presented in the opening paragraph are developed.
- Develop your body paragraphs by giving comprehensive information and examples.
- The body paragraphs should develop the central idea and close with a summary of that thought. There must be at least two examples or proof in each body paragraph to sustain the central idea.
- The summary paragraph summarizes your essay and is often a overturn of the opening paragraph.
- Begin the summary paragraph by rapidly restating the main ideas of your body paragraphs.
- The last but one sentence should restate your basic thesis of the essay.
- Your final statement can be a future prediction based on what you have exposed in the essay.
