Three, Two, One The Paper’s Done
Contrary to what people think, writing a paper can be fun. Researching something that you enjoy, learning more about it, and bringing all the information that you have found together to make one paper can be interesting, but the way a person goes about doing it can ruin the fun. In five easy steps you can write an essay and enjoy it.
Begin by brainstorming and picking a topic that interests you most, not just what you think will give you a good grade. If you have no interest in what you are going to write about then you won’t care as much and won’t do as well. If you enjoy what you are writing about you will want to study about it more and in-so-doing will do better on your essay. Even if you are given the topic, find something in it that interests you about it and write your essay. This is a very important step to it being enjoyable.
Once you have decided on a topic that interests you, write an outline or use one of the many Prewriting Techniques, which would include: Listing, Freewriting, Looping, Boomerang, Clustering, Cubing, Interviewing, or Cross-Examination. If you haven’t figured out which technique works best for you yet don’t get frustrated, you will, just look at the different techniques and see which one is best for you. If you think you have to use more than one technique then do it, whatever works for you to write your essay is just fine.
After you have picked a topic and have used either an outline or a Prewriting Technique to get things in order, the third step is to write your first draft out. Write it not worried about how you spell every word, just write out a simple draft, if you are not comfortable with it then make changes and rewrite it if necessary. Once you have written your first draft and you are comfortable with it, then go back and make corrections of misspelled words, capitalzation, and end marks. You’ll notice that as you go from your first draft to your second and so on you are actually fixing more and more things
Once you are comfortable with what you have written, corrections have been made, and it is writen to the point it is almost available to hand in, go ahead and have a friend, a tutor, or a fellow student look at your essay and make suggestions. It’s good to have a few people look at your essay because it is easy to miss something and the second person might catch errors that the first person didn’t. My personnal advice is to have two tutors and either a friend or fellow student look at your essay, so a total of three people, because that gives you a pretty good chance of at least one of them finding a mistake, if there is one.
Once you have writen out your essay to the point of it being just about done and you have had at least one or more people check it, the next step is to write your paper, from the draft you have written and the advice you have gotten from the ones you had check it. Now look through it one more time to check for errors, it is always best to have someone check it one more time at the end, just to make sure. You are now ready to hand in your essay.
If you follow the steps that have been given to you, pick a topic that interests you; write out an outline or use one or more of the Prewriting Techniques; write out your first draft; have a friend, tutor, and/or fellow student look at your almost finished essay and make corrections where needed; write your paper from your drafts and from the advice given from those who checked your essay; and when you are finished writing your essay have a person look at it one last time for any errors just before you hand it in. You will then be able to write an essay. So next time you have to write an essay just remember the steps given and have fun doing it.
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