Effective Essay Writing Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide

This essay delves into the essential techniques of essay writing, providing a comprehensive guide for students. It explores various methods for crafting effective introductions, including storytelling, using surprising facts, and providing background information. The essay also outlines the key components of a strong conclusion, emphasizing the importance of restating the thesis, summarizing arguments, and expressing the essay's purpose. Furthermore, it examines the role of thesis statements and topic sentences in structuring an essay, clarifying their distinct functions. The essay also covers the use of transition words to enhance coherence and flow. References to academic sources support the discussed techniques, offering a practical resource for students seeking to improve their writing skills. This assignment is available on Desklib, where you can find more academic resources.

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1. Different techniques of writing essay introduction can be followed to initiate an essay.
One of them is telling a story. It has been found that readers like reading more about
people more than certain ideas and issues. The audiences would be able to connect with
the topic if it is shown to them about how it had affected people in the story (Harris). The
interest that would be grown in the audience would compel them to continue reading it.
Another would be using a surprising fact or statistic. If the writer of the essay goes
through surprising piece of information while writing or performing research, there
remains a high chance that the information would surprise and interest the audience as
well. For example, if it is stated that 50% of women in USA suffer from heart disorders,
the audience would feel interested in knowing about the care of cardiovascular disorders.
Another way is to providing background information. Often incorporating a brief
history of the essay topic can help the audience by providing background information
about the various discussions that would be done in the essay. It helps the audience gain
an idea about what they could expect in the rest of the essay.
I would use the technique of providing background information in the first essay. This
would help my readers to develop a brief idea about the concept I would be talking on
and how it had acted or had been present in the past.
2. The conclusion should have three important aspects.
 The conclusion should be restating the thesis. The reader should be reminded that
the writer had proven the thesis over the course of time, revised the statement so
that it reflects the relationship developed with the reader in the essay and the
thesis should not be reaped ted word for word (Noorozi et al.).

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 List of major arguments for the thesis should be given, explaining how the
different parts are connected
 The conclusion should clearly express the purpose of representing the essay to the
reader. It should have clear question to the reader like a call to action also
describing why the essay had been important to be represented or why the topic
should matter to the reader personally (Redman, Peter and Wendy).
3. Arguing students should be able to get their license at 16 years old.
A. A sample thesis statement: Students should not be given license to safeguard
them from potential harms and injuries
B. A topic sentence for two body paragraphs in that essay:
(a) Researchers have found out potential negative impacts on students who have
got license before 18 year. It has been found that ……
(b) Physical harms and emotional harms are found to have been associated with
students who have got license before 18 years. The physical harms mainly
noted were…..
4. The thesis statement tells the reader what the rest of the essay is all about. A thesis
statement can be described as the fact that the writer wants to prove or a fact that the
writer wants to explain. The rest of the job of the paper is to explain or prove what the
writer had written in the thesis statement (Roscoe). For example if the thesis statement is
“there are various ways for the college students in improving their study habits”. Here the
thesis statement would be telling us about study habits of college students and the rest of
the paper would be showing ways for improving the study habits. So the thesis statement
would be the big idea of the whole paper.

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However, the topic sentence is different from the thesis statement. The thesis statement
tells what the whole paper is all about. The topic sentence on the other hand shows only
about what the paragraph it is attached to be all about (Miller and Silvia). This can be
explained in the following way. The thesis statement for the essay was taken “there are
various ways for the college students in improving their study habits”. The ideas that
would be discussed in the essay are studying in quite environment, paying attention in
class and managing their time in a proper manner. The topic sentence would be “studying
in a quiet and calm environment would help students in improving their study habits”.
5. Transition words are mainly utilized for linking different words, phrases or sentences.
They are found to be helpful for the reader to progress from one idea to that of the next
ideas and thereby they help in building up coherent relationships within the texts.
Transitions mainly help in finding the right expression within the essay (Rohim).
Transitions are essential because they not only help in connecting idea but also help in
introducing a certain shift as well as contrast or opposition, emphasis as well as
agreement purpose, result or conclusion and others (Lipson). Some of the examples of
transitions are “in addition”, “not only”
Before using “transitions” – therapeutic communication helps the patients feel
respected and increases patient satisfaction. It helps in ensuring positive outcomes on
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After using “transitions” - therapeutic communication not only helps in making the
patients feel respected but it also helps in ensuring patient satisfaction and positive health
outcomes on the patients.

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References:
Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: How to do things with texts. University Press of Colorado, 2017.
Lipson, Charles. How to write a BA thesis: A practical guide from your first ideas to your
finished paper. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Miller, Ryan T., and Silvia Pessoa. "Where's your thesis statement and what happened to your
topic sentences? Identifying organizational challenges in undergraduate student argumentative
writing." TESOL Journal 7.4 (2016): 847-873.
Noroozi, Omid, Harm Biemans, and Martin Mulder. "Relations between scripted online peer
feedback processes and quality of written argumentative essay." The Internet and Higher
Education 31 (2016): 20-31.
Redman, Peter, and Wendy Maples. Good essay writing: a social sciences guide. Sage, 2017.
Rohim, Abdul. Essay writing how to write an essay. Deepublish, 2017.
Roscoe, Rod D., et al. "Automated detection of essay revising patterns: Applications for
intelligent feedback in a writing tutor." Grantee Submission 10.1 (2015): 59-79.