Admore Tshuma Work - Essay Structure

When writing an essay, it is important to keep a good structure and pacing to your writing. You don't to be explaining and expressing your thoughts too fast because this wont entice the reader and make things seem more confusing than they need to be. Another reason you want to keep a nice pace and structure is because you don't want to take too long explaining yourself, nor go off on a tangent about something with little relevance to your piece of work originally.

The structure of essays i will be talking about is split up into 3 parts. The first one being your introduction. Like the rest of your essay, the introduction is just important. Your introduction should be used to, well, introduce your reader to whatever your essay is about but it is also good to provoke the reader's interest into what you're writing. Set the scene and let any viewer know what your essay is about with a short sentence that either explains what your essay will be on, the questions you've been asked and how you're going to tackle them.

• Entice the reader
• Set the scene - a bland and boring introduction leaves for a bland and boring essay
• If needed, explain key terminology to the viewer before getting onto your main body 
• Identify and inform your reader of the issues you'll be exploring through the essay
• Provide information saying how you will deal with each issue you wish to dicuss and tackle

 Main body text is going to be the largest part of your essay and should contain all the points you make in your introduction but written more descriptively whilst still relevant to your work as a whole. Your main body of text should be split up into different paragraphs, this includes a paragraph for each topic. The first paragraph to your essay would consist of the main point and topic you wish to express which was written in your introduction and your first sentence should contain the main idea behind the entire paragraph. After you have done this, the rest of your sentences should be a follow up to your first sentence but also include example, details, evidence, quotations and references where possible and needed,

This brings us onto our second paragraph and others which follow later on if required. There isn't much to say about your second and paragraphs to come which can't be taken from the paragraph above except your first sentence this time should link to the paragraph previously and then go onto introduce the main topic for your new paragraph.

Conclusions tie in everything together, you come towards a summary in your work and conclude what you've written about. Make sure you don't introduce any new material at all no matter what, adding new content leaves it unexplained and may as well become another paragraph in your work instead of making your conclusion overly long and trailing away from what a conclusion should be.

• Tie everything in together
• Create a summary of everything you have written about
• Provide conclusions to what you've said
• Do NOT introduce new material
• Link your last sentence to your title