Info of The Structure of Essay

The body is the longest part of the essay and can contain as many paragraphs  as necessary to support the controlling ideas of your thesis statement.                                                                    

 

•      The introductory paragraph

•      All writers complain that the most difficult part of writing is getting started. How many times have you wasted valuable minutes during an essay examination trying to think of your first sentence? Getting started or writing an introduction, can be easy if you remember that an introduction has four purposes ;

•      1. It introduce the topic of the essay.

•      2. It gives a general background of the topic.

•      3. It often indicates the overall “plan’ of the essay.

•      4. It should arouse the reader’s interest in the topic.

•      The introduction has two parts :

•      A. General statement

•      B. A thesis statement

•      The introductory paragraph

•      A person in the twentieh century has seen a lot changes take place in almost all areas of human life. Some people are excited by the challenges that these changes offer ; others want to return to the simpler, less automated  life style of the past.

•      Living in the twentieth century has certain advantages such as a higher standart of living, but it also has some disadvantages such as a polluted environment, the depersonalization of human relationships, and the weakening of spritual values.

•      The first sentence in an introductory paragraph should be a very general comment about the subject. Its purpose is to attract the reader’s attention and to give bacground information on the topic. Each subsequent sentence  should become more specific than the previous one and finally lead  into the thesis Statement.

•      General Statement

•      1. introduce the topic of the essay.

•      2. give background information on the topic.

•      The thesis statement is the most important sentence in the introduction. It states the specific topic and lists the major sub topics that will be discussed in the body of the essay. Furthermore, it often indicates the method of organization such as chronological order, or order of importance.

•      The thesis statement :

•      A. States the main topic

•      B. List the subdivisions of the topic

•      C. May indicate the method of organization of the entire paper.

•      D. Is usually the last sentence in the introductory paragraph.

 


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