How do you write an academic essay without confusion?

Answer 1

First of all you need to write down your ideas about the topic. You can't write a good essay without doing planning.

Write a word map or spider diagram of everything you can think of regarding the topic. As you write down your thoughts group together similar ideas. When you have your ideas and thoughts in groups try to think about how many paragraphs you are going to have in the 'body' of your essay.

If you only need three or four paragraphs in the body of your essay you may have too many groups/thoughts so you can regroup your ideas or leave some out.

Each paragraph should have a topic sentence which states the main idea of the paragraph then the rest of the paragraph explains or gives examples of the topic sentence. Each paragraph should be about a different 'point' in your essay.

Don't repeat things you write about, present you ideas logically and in order use words like firstly, secondly to introduce each paragraph (idea).

You also need to have a good introduction and a good conclusion