How to Write an Essay By Brian Vogt At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

I'm going to share with you a method of writing essays that is easier to understand and quicker than probably just about any other method you'll come across. It consists of three simple steps that anyone can follow.

The first part of this method involves how you collect information and gather your thoughts. For research papers this means RESEARCH. For opinion essays, critical thinking, etc it may mean some research and some essential "collecting of thoughts".

Step one is simple: COLLECT. That's right, COLLECT. Collect your thoughts, notes, text clips and ideas. Collect photos, sounds, videos… literally anything and everything that deals with your topic and will help you write your essay. The purpose at this stage isn't to do any analyzing or thinking-through of things. Just collect.

The next step is to take everything you collected in step one and organize, arrange, and CATEGORIZE it into an order that makes sense. Put pieces of supporting data with their main ideas, and arrange each section and category of data into an order that works. Once you finish this step, you will have what amounts to an outline for your essay.

The final step is to simply COMMUNICATE the information that was organized in step 2, by writing it down. Just go through the organize information that you collected in the previous step (probably on note cards or in software or an outline, etc.) and write right off your notes. When you finish this step you should have a good quality rough draft, ready for proof reading and cleaning up.

A quick how-to on the actual writing part of this seems like a good idea here. Do you know how simple it is to communicate something either in speech or in writing? It's quite simple really. I'll give you an outline right now that you can use in virtually anything you write or any speech you give. Here it is:

1. Tell them what you're going to tell them (your intro).

2. Tell them (the body).

3. Tell them what you told them (conclusion).

This may seem too simple but it's really not. For your introduction just tell people what they are about to read. Give them a taste of what you have to share. Next, give them the meat of your story, straight from your notes collected above. Finally, just review what it was you just told them and you're done! It is really as simple as that!

I have just given you, in this article, a complete system of writing that you can use to write an essay of 10 pages or even write a book of thousands of pages. Don't be intimidated by the scope of a project. Just use this method to break it down and organize your thoughts and research, and tackle it head on. You'll probably find after practicing writing with this method that writing becomes more easy and enjoyable than it ever has been before.

You may or may not have noticed but I used this method of writing on this very article! You have a live example and a complete road map. It's up to you to put this information to work, and get writing!

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