JinHyun Baek

Good Essay?

Essay is the representation of writer’s ideas and thoughts in a textual, and it should be arranged in strong structure as introduction, body, and conclusion because the arranged structure helps readers to understand easily that reason and intention of why writer wrote that. However, the structure is not only important thing, also the good words and fluent sentences are also very important parts of writing, and these are formed in the writing. Actually, good selection of word, which not too easy words, is the beginning of good writing because the good words form good sentence. Then the good sentence forms fluent paragraph. When these three things words, sentences, and paragraphs are arranged, good essay is created with introduction, body, and conclusion.

The introduction is usually used to be beginning of article, and it should be designed to attract the reader’s attention. It also gives writer’s idea of the article’s focus. When writers write the introduction, they usually begin with startling information and anecdote. The reason of using these is to grab readers’ attention, and to make readers feel interesting from the introduction. The startling information have to be fact and provable because if it is not fact, the article would be fiction not the essay. It can be a proper fact that obviously illustrates the point writer wishes to make. The anecdote is a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical. (Dictionary.com) When writer uses the anecdote, it should be short because it can make the introduction too long and boring, if it is too long. It also has to be related to the essay’s topic.

Thesis statement is the most important thing in the introduction, in my personal opinion, because it is a summary of the story of essay. It really affects readers to understand and expect what writer tries to say. The thesis statement usually comes at the end of the first paragraph, and it is one sentence in length. Therefore, if there is not a perfect thesis statement, the essay cannot be started.

Each body paragraph should explain, argue, or describe the topic with personal experience or data. The personal experience or data can support the writer’s main ideas, which it means the essay is written by fact information. However, when writer get some data from books or web-site, writer must put work-cited on the last page of the essay to not be plagiarism. If writer has two or three main ideas, the essay usually will include two or three body paragraph.
The last one is the conclusion, which comes at after the last body paragraph. I personally think the conclusion is the easiest step of writing essay because it just needs to sum up writer’s points and ideas. It also can help readers to clearly and strongly understand the essay’s summery, so the conclusion is better to have a few sentences.

Usually, when writers start to write essay, they choose firstly a topic and think about some ideas. Writers write the introduction with startling information and anecdote to grab readers’ attention. The body paragraphs are usually written by main ideas with supporting data and personal experience. When writers get data or information from book or web-site, they must put the work-cited because of the plagiarism. The conclusion is the last step of writing essay, which is summing up. Now you can make fluent structure in essay.

"Anecdote." Dictionary.com. 2006. 16 Dec. 2008 .