PART I: INTRODUCTION

Why are we need to learn how to write an essay?

  • Writing an essay is to think by writing, formulate and organize ideas.
  • Writing an essay is also to learn or explore a new topic.

How to get things done?

If you don’t have a big chunk of time in your daily life, then don’t relay your success on it, take 15 minutes every day is still powerful: 「日拱一卒，功不唐捐」.

PART II: LEVELS OF RESOUTION

  • Word
  • Sentence
  • Paragraph: 100 words or 10 sentences, rule is the rule
    • A single idea.
    • Less than 100 words a paragraph looks like a bad idea
    • More than 300 words a paragraph may contain multiple ideas
  • Forth Level: Proper Order of Paragraph
  • Fifth Level: Whole Essay
  • Context
  • Culture

PART III: THE TOPIC AND THE READING LIST

Topic: question try to answer.

If you already have potential topics to choose, start with Topics, otherwise start with Reading List.

PART IV: THE OUTLINE

First Draft: Should be 25% longer than the final version.

Write 10 - 15 sentences outline for serval thousand words Essay.

PART V: PARAGRAPHS

PART VI: EDITING AND ARRANGING OF SENTENCES WITHIN PARAGRAPHS

PART VII: RE-ORDERING THE PARAGRAPHS

PART VIII: GENERATING A NEW OUTLINE

PART IX: REPEAT

PART X: REFERENCES AND BIBLIGRAPHY