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BUILDING THE ESSAY An essay is a piece of writing that consists of several parts or paragraphs. The length of an essay will often depend on the nature of the assignment or your instructor's specifications. The parts of an essay correspond to the parts of the paragraph: the essay has a thesis statement and the paragraph has a topic sentence, and an essay has support paragraphs like a paragraph has support sentences. Understanding the Writing Process for Essays There is a basic process that one must follow in order to write an acceptable essay. This process consists of four stages: 1.) Prewriting explore and narrow your topic find a main point and write a thesis statement find and select support details 2.) Drafting arrange your ideas in an outline write a draft using complete sentences and paragraphs write an introduction and conclusion 3.) Revising improve the unity, support, and coherence of your essay 4.) Editing find and correct errors in grammar, word use, punctuation, and mechanics Prewriting Explore and Narrow Your Topic The first thing that you must do in the prewriting stage of the writing process is explore your topic.
Approximate Word count = 616
Approximate Pages = 2.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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