This weeks reading is all about writing rough drafts. In the previous chapter we had to learn how to come up with a thesis statement and outline an essay. This is the next step after that. It talks mainly about the structure of rough drafts and hooking things to your thesis statement. It goes further into detail about your introduction that you would write.
I learned that it is a good strategy to start out your essay with a sentence to get the readers attention. This could be stating an interesting fact, starting out with an interesting question that would make the reader think, or even open it up with a shocking story. After that it is important to make a clear thesis statement. This statement has to explain the main points and opinions of your essay. From what i read in this book, a thesis is usually a statement followed by backed up examples that will later be explained in the rest of the essay. After your done with your introduction, your body paragraphs are suppose to be the examples that support your thesis, going into full detail and bringing up true statistics and facts. The conclusion ties it all together and summarizes your whole essay.
I really took a lot from this chapter because essay writing is one of my weakest writing skill. I am very bad at organizing my thoughts, and when I want to get out an idea, it does not come out on paper like it should. I have a tendency to jumble everything about the topic onto paper all at once, and when I try to organize it to match my thesis statement, which is hard for me to write in the first place, everything starts to make even less sense. This chapters points about organization really showed me really what an essay should look like. It should be organized by a hook, a thesis statement, a body backing it up, and a conclusion that ties it together.
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