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How To Plan Your Essay

By Exforsys | on August 1, 2006 |
Essay Writing

How To Plan Your Essay

Before you write your essay, it is important to lay down plans. Writing a good essay requires you to do research on the topic you want to write about. There are also a number of tools you can use to make the process easier.

The best time to get ideas for your essay is when you are reading literary works or articles. Because of this, it is important to take good notes. You should only make notes of the summary if it can help you remember the theme of the article you’re reading. If you want to take notes from your lecture, writing a summary is important.

The best way to get ideas for your essay is to read the reference material twice. The first time you will want to read it straight through. When you read it for the second time, you will want to begin taking down notes. As you read, you will want to have a notebook and pen handy. As you read the information, think about the information and use it to write down what you think. You should write down anything you find to be useful. For example, if you find a quote you like, take the time to write it down along with the page it was found on. This will allow you to use this quote later in your essay. Having the page number will allow you to tell readers where you found the information.

When you make notes, it is best to use a shorthand notebook. Using a shorthand notebook will allow you to categorize any ideas you may have. Each idea should be written down on a separate page in a way that makes it easy to read and reference. One day out of every week, you should go through the list of notes you have compiled. You will want to remove them from the notebook. After you’ve done this, you will want to add headings to each page. If you find something you don’t need, you can throw it away. It is important that the notes are well organized. There should be information on the page numbers, editions, and anything else which will allow you to reference them.

The next important thing you will need to use when planning your essay is a bibliography. To get a bibliography, you will need to acquire a booklist. A bibliography is a list of works which have been produced by an author. Every book that you find should have a bibliography. It will typically be located at the back of the book. You will want to make a bibliography of the materials you have read in preparation for your essay. This is extremely important. Keeping a list of books you’ve read will make it easy to write your bibliography.

As you can see, the steps for planning a bibliography are fairly simple. You will need to compile the material, read the material, and make notes of things you find to be important. Your ideas and notes will need to be written down on separate pieces of paper. Once you have all this information, you are now ready to write your essay. You should never begin writing an essay until all of this data has been compiled. You will want to look over the topics, notes, and ideas, and develop the thesis which you feel will work the best. You may decide to use some of the information, while other parts of it may need to be discarded. The purpose of gathering these materials is to make it easier for you to write an excellent resume.



Once you have assembled the information you want to use, you will be ready to begin writing your essay. Many students make low grades on their essays because they fail to prepare beforehand. Writing a good essay requires you to do more than just sit down and write a paper with a few references. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student, your essay will need to be perfect. To write the perfect essay, it is crucial that you start planning it in advance. If you do this, you will succeed. It is important to remember this at all times.

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