5 struggles and how to overcome them when writing a paper

Beginning an essay for a college English or other university-level course can be challenging, especially for international students who are trying to adjust to more English based writing practices.

1. How Do You Write a Beginning?

The beginning of an essay is called the introduction. The introduction to any paper typically contains a few sentences to get the reader’s attention and then goes into a thesis statement. It helps to frame your thesis statement like this:

“In this essay, I am going to discuss ___________________________.”:

For a memorable experience essay this might be:

“In this essay, I’m going to discuss how being in the marching band helped me to develop good habits, dedication, and a new sense of pride in my accomplishments.”

Then, you would discuss how marching band did this for you!

Now, for more analytic essays in subject areas such as business or biology, for example, you might say something like this:

“In this essay, I am going to discuss how genotyping is going to improve medicine in the future.”

2. What goes in the middle?

Besides your introduction and conclusion, all essays need solid evidence of your thesis. For example, in the essay on marching band, you would need to explain how marching band did these things for you. In a longer essay, you might discuss each of the items in the series of your thesis statement over four pages—in a five paragraph essay, you could dedicate one paragraph to how marching band helps you “develop good habits,” etc…

3. What about research?

For the academic essay on genotyping above, you’re going to need solid evidence that genotyping will revolutionize the medical industry, right? Well, now is the time to begin your research. If you are in college, you’ll have access to many sources of quality information normal people on the internet do not have via the library databases. These are full of researched, reliable articles from good, quality information sources that are approved.

Start there before ever reading just plain blogs that do not back up their claims

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4. What is a good conclusion?

A good conclusion brings your essay successfully to a closing. You can do this through bringing your topic into the super present by seeing what is happening this week with your topic, for example. .You want to make your reader contemplate the great importance of this topic right now.

5. What about quoting?

Quoting is good to do! It allows you to work in solid evidence from researchers!