Essay Writing Worksheets
When authors write a lengthened body of work that brings forth a suggestion or hypothesis this is referred to as an essay. This is a formal writing piece that centers around a single subject or topic. When you create an essay, the focus is on finding all the facts and expressing them to support your assertion with quantifiable evidence. Essays follow a fixed pattern like many other works. They begin with an introduction that is aimed at bringing the argument up to the reader and provide a little background information. The body of an essay explores all the evidence and attempts the reader to persuade the reader to accept the authors viewpoint. This middle section can be brief or very extensive it depends on the topic and how much evidence that we must use with it. Essays end with summarized conclusion which is the authors last effort to convince readers to recognize their argument as fact. In this series of worksheets, you will look at the qualities that make a well-designed essay. This will help students get a good handle on how to prepare high quality essays.
Essay Writing Worksheets To Print:
Persuasive Prep - This is a great way to create an outline for this particular purpose.
My Opinion - This is used to create less formal bodies of work..
Flowchart - This is great framework to look at all the major aspects of a project like this.
Concept Map - Use the concept map below as a graphic organizer to plan your essay.
My Thesis
- This worksheet will help you create the perfect thesis.
Topics to Explore - We give you a whole bunch of topics to spark some thought. Examples: Is social media good or bad for friendship? Is virtual school good or bad for kids?
What kind of student excels at virtual school? It it easy or hard to make healthy food choices?
Should kids have to do chores? Are people responsible for their own health?
Is it important to do work that you love? What is the definition of success?
My Claims
- How will grab the reader's attention and keep it through the life of your work?
Along the Way
- This really looks at the key aspects that require your focus.
My Opinion
- Choose one of the topics below for your essay. Then get after it. Each thought can go in either direction. You decide which.
Parts of an Essay - The Conclusion should reiterate your main idea in a different and interesting way. It should end
with a closing statement that remind your reader of your main idea.
Ways to Start an Essay - Decide how you are going to begin your essay. You may choose one of
the methods described above that is suitable for your topic, or you may describe
another method that you think will quickly hook your reader. On the lines, write the
opening sentence or two of your essay. Why do you think this will hook your reader?
The Process of Essay Writing
These are not your everyday basic forms of writing. A great deal of planning should go into your work before you even write your first word. In many cases, you will be assigned a topic to write about, but that is not always true. You may be given area or aspect that you may need to build off of. Either way, you will need to clearly define the topic of your essay before you can begin. Once you have established a title for your work, you will need determine the type of essay that you will compose. There are four main categories that this type of writing. When we are exploring a process will often write in the expository manner which creates a series of steps for readers to comprehend. The narrative form tells a story in an uncomplicated sequential manner. When we want to be super detailed with entire environment that people are surrounded with, we push a more descriptive form of our essay. The last major essay form, persuasive, is used when we are trying to convince readers of some viewpoint or another.
Once we have a good understanding of what we are going to write about and then how we want to share this with readers, it is time to do some research. Obviously, it begins with a search about your topic online, but make sure that you are cover all bases. Even if you are writing a persuasive piece, it is good to know all the pros and cons of your topic. The more information that you have to work with, the easier that the piece will be to compose. Also realize that as you compile your resources, you will need to cite them within your work. Make note of where you find all of the resources and all of the salient information about those sources.
Once we have done all of our research it is time to develop our thesis. This is a simple statement about what we are going to attempt to do with this work. This is also the basic purpose of your work. This is often found in the introductory section of first paragraph. Make sure to clearly state this in a concise and easy to follow manner. It is then time to develop an outline for your work. I often begin this by writing my thesis and then jotting down what ideas I would need to get out there to substantiate the thesis. The outline should then be organized into an introduction, body, and closing.
We lean on the outline to begin to compose our work. Begin by writing a well thought out thesis that covers all that we were trying to assert. This should lead us to write a natural body of work that endeavors to satisfy that thesis and elevate it to a point where our readers are able to reside with our thesis.
Once our skeleton for our work is complete, we begin to make sure that this work flows well. We need decide on good transitional sentence that help the work boast a robust and comprehensive exploration into the topic. Make sure to reread your work and make certain that it reflects the outline. Proofreading and editing is the last stage. It is often helpful to get a second set of eyes on your work.