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A Good English Essay

In English, there are 4 important components. They are writing, reading, speaking and listening. This passage explains more about writing, especially writing an essay. Writing is a method of representing language in visual or tactile form. Writing systems use sets of symbols to represent the sounds of speech, and may also have symbols for such things as punctuation and numerals. While an essay is an expression of one's opinion on a thing.  The essay is really very different from scientific articles or mere opinion exposure (factual statements). The combination of facts with imagination, between knowledge by making sense of the essay is different than other types of writing. An essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. You may be writing an essay to argue for a particular point of view or to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. Either way, your essay will have the same basic format. If you follow a few simple steps, you will find that the essay almost writes itself. You will be responsible only for supplying ideas, which are the important part of the essay anyway. In writing an essay, there are several important points that should be considered.

The first of writing an essay is preparation. There are several preparations in writing an essay. They are choose the question, think about what is become your own interest. Analyze the question; identify the instruction words, the topic words and phrases. Rewrite the question, after you have analyzed, you should try to rewrite it with your own word. Brainstorm, is a group creativity technique by which a group tries to find a solution for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its members. Brainstorming will help you to determine how much you already know about the subject. Research, look at back to the reference material and look for the specific evidence which can be support your own ideas. Decide on the order of presentation, try to finalize the point that you ill cover and decide how you will present them. And the last one is plan. Writing a plan before starting an essay is a good idea. It can help you to formulate ideas and to ensure that the structure of your final essay is logical and appropriate to the essay title. Essay plans can also be useful, even if they are kept very brief, to remind you of important points that should be covered in your essay, as well as highlighting the final structure of your essay. This is particularly relevant to exam situations where it is all too easy to forget details if you dive straight into an essay without planning it first. Try not to put too much detail into the plans: use keywords and phrases, make notes of important references and species names that should be included in the final essay. The plan is to serve as your reminder of what will go into the final essay and in what order. Write a plan and it is should not require more than one page. There are a few simple 'rules' which can help make your essay plan easier to construct: 1. Read the essay title carefully. Read it again. Are you being asked to discuss, synthesize, explain, evaluate, and review your subject? 2. Once you have established what exactly is required of you it can help formulate your approach to the essay plan and subsequent final essay. 3. Your essay plan should have a logical order, i.e. a beginning, middle and an end. It should reflect what you would end up writing in the final essay. In other words, by looking at your plan, a lecturer should be able to clearly see the approach you are taking to address the essay title.

After doing preparation of writing, we must have essay plan. There are at least 4 steps for essay plan. They are question, introduction, body of essay and conclusion. You just write your question first before you write an introduction. Introductory paragraph is the main part of paragraph. It is always lay on the first paragraph in an essay. When you set out to write the introductory paragraph, there are a few factors to keep in mind. The more organized you can be ahead of time, the easier your article will flow in the direction you want it to. First of all, think of the entire paragraph or essay you are planning to write. It is important to ask yourself what the goal is of your writing. If you think that the reader may have a difficult understanding what point you are trying to make, the introductory paragraph can give some guidance to anyone who may struggle with your writing. What the introductory paragraph should do beyond providing a starting point to your essay is summarize the point of writing anything at all. It should also be something you can draw from when you want to write your conclusion for they often say the same things, just in a different way. An introduction usually consist of one introductory paragraph, introduces the thesis statement, contains of ideas which has beginning (general), middle (more specific) and ending sentence (focusing to the thesis statement).

After introduction paragraph is done, write the body of essay. In the body of essay there are several kinds of paragraph that is called developmental paragraph. In some developmental paragraph (2, 3, 4, or more depending on the complexity of the topic discussed). Every developmental paragraph contain a topic sentence, supporting sentences, example: fact/data,, authors/expert’s opinion, and/or details. It is possible for us to make a list the points you are going to use to support your stand, opinion, or angle. Then is writing a conclusion, that is the end of the essay. The conclusion of an essay should be the last paragraph. While a conclusion is often shorter than other paragraphs in the essay, it is very vital to the essay's success. It restates the essay's main points and tells the reader what to think or understand about the ideas presented in the essay. The function of conclusion is recaps an essay's main points. The conclusion should not repeat the ideas of the essay word-for-word; it should leave the reader with a parting word or something to think about or consider. The conclusion should be the last paragraph of an essay and should primarily drive the main point home. A good conclusion should contain of summarize of the main point and, in most cases, make some sort of judgment or comments.

After we done all of this, it is better for us to write the first draft and then revise and edit our essay. In writing the first draft, also involves three important points above, they are introduction as the main paragraph, the body of paragraph and the last is conclusion. In writing the first draft of your essay, try to get as many ideas down on paper as quickly as you can.  Don't worry about spelling or punctuation at all at this stage, just ideas.  If you change your mind about how to say something, don't stop to cross it out, just write an improved version.  You may have a lot of repetition in your first draft.  That will be fine. Remembering it just the first draft, don't worry about your introduction and try to write your first draft in the way that is easiest and most comfortable for you.

 Next step are revise and edit your essay. Revising and editing an essay takes time and concentration. Writers use several strategies to make the process run more smoothly. Knowing and trying several revisions and editing strategies can improve your own essay writing. All strategies may not work equally for everyone, but you'll eventually find what works best for you. You should to check the correct spelling, sentence structure and punctuation. And if you use the printed copy of your writing, it will helpful if you give mark corrections in a different color pen, and check the spelling, sentence structure, and punctuation as you revise. There are several instructions that should you do when revise and edit an essay. Read your essay out loud. No matter your writing skills level, you'll make mistakes. You're likely to overlook mistakes in spelling, grammar and punctuation after looking at the same essay for a long time. You are more likely to catch mistakes and ways to improve if you read it out loud. Spend some time away from your essay after you write each draft. This will give your mind time to relax after the pressure of writing. You're more likely to feel refreshed when you return to it. Keep everything you write for your essay. Use the cut-and-paste tools to move anything that seems like it doesn't fit at the moment. Although the temptation is to just delete it, you may want to incorporate a section of your essay that you didn't know you would. Ask a friend to read your essay. A point that seems clear to you may not be as clear to an outside reader. Invite your friend to ask questions about parts of your essay she/he doesn't understand. Use different colors for different main points. This is especially helpful if your essay requires research.

You have written a first draft. Then you have thought of ways to improve it. You have done the reading you needed to do to find out what you needed to know and to fill out your argument. Now you're ready to write the second draft. The second draft will be very near to the finished essay. So you will revise your first draft to turn it into the second draft. There are several type to change your first draft to be second draft, hold together the argument, argument supported by evidence, and the essay have an effective introduction and conclusion. Hold the argument, it means that maybe you might decide to move your key points around and change the structure of the essay. Argument supported by evidence, every point you make should have some evidence to support it. Maybe there's still some reading you need to do to find the evidence you need. The last one is the essay have an effective introduction and conclusion, at the last this stage, you have a good idea of what the essay as a whole will look like. So now is the time to write your introduction and your conclusion. These are much easier to write at this second stage than straight off at the start of your work on the essay.

When you've wrote on your second draft and you're satisfied with the three important points that you're nearly there. The difference between a second draft and the finished essay is Proofreading. After you done all of this writing steps, you can print and proofread your essay. Print out your essay that you have wrote, then proofread it. Proofreading is primarily about searching your writing for errors, both grammatical and typographical, before submitting your paper for an audience (a teacher, a publisher, etc.). Use this resource to help you find and fix common errors. There are several general strategies in proofreading the essay. Take a break. It will refresh your mind before you get some errors in your writing. Read aloud. Reading your essay aloud encourages you to read every little word. Get others involved. Asking a friend or your writing teacher to read your paper will let you get another perspective on your writing and a fresh reader will be able to help you catch mistakes that you might have overlooked. The last step is re-read. You have to re-read your perfect essay before you submit it to your teacher. Read through it one more time and make sure that your essay is making sense to you.

In short, if we want to write good essay we have to follow some writing rules or steps. Start from the essay preparation, essay plan, and other steps in writing essay. In preparation step of writing an essay, there are seven steps. But the most important of writing essay is relation between the thesis statement and the title of the essay. And every body of paragraph in that essay is related to the thesis statement. Besides, we have to pay attention about formatting of essay. Using basic essay structure and guidelines of using headings is also recommended.