Knowing how to write an essay is a skill that you can use throughout your life. The ability to organize ideas that you use in constructing an essay will help you write business letters, company memos, and marketing materials for your clubs and organizations.

Anything you write will benefit from learning these simple parts of an essay:

1. Purpose and Thesis
2. Title
3. Introduction
4. Body of Information
5. Conclusion

1.Main Idea

Before you can start writing, you must have an idea to write about. If you haven’t been assigned a topic, it’s easier than you might think to come up with one of your own.

Your best essays will be about things that light your fire. What do you feel passionate about? What topics do you find yourself arguing for or against? Choose the side of the topic you are “for” rather than “against” and your essay will be stronger.

2.Title

Choose a title for your essay that expresses your primary idea. The strongest titles will include a verb. Take a look at any newspaper and you’ll see that every title has a verb.

Your title should make someone want to read what you have to say. Make it provocative.

3.Introduction

Your introduction is one short paragraph, just a sentence or two, that states your thesis (your main idea) and introduces your reader to your topic. After your title, this is your next best chance to hook your reader

4.Body of Information

The body of your essay is where you develop your story or argument. Once you have finished your research and produced several pages of notes, go through them with a highlighter and mark the most important ideas, the key points.

Choose the top three ideas and write each one at the top of a clean page. Now go through your notes again and pull out supporting ideas for each key point. You don’t need a lot, just two or three for each one.

Write a paragraph about each of these key points, using the information you’ve pulled from your notes. If you don’t have enough for one, you might need a stronger key point. Do more research to support your point of view. It’s always better to have too many sources than too few.

5.Conclusion

You’ve almost finished. The last paragraph of your essay is your conclusion. It, too, can be short, and it must tie back to your introduction.

In your introduction, you stated the reason for your paper. In your conclusion, you should summarize how your key points support your thesis.