Jasmine Cheatham

English 304

Lesson 8

Your introduction should draw your readers in. You should motivate your readers by stating something that they care about and are interested in. Also, state key points and concepts that you will further discuss in your paper. When writing you should make sure that all of your writing goes together. You shouldn’t bounce around from topic to topic because not only is the writing unorganized but it will confuse the reader. Doing it in a structural sense will help your readers get a clear picture of what you are trying to say as well as lead them up to what you are going to talk about next. In class you asked us if it would be more beneficial to us if we used subheadings. Subheadings will help organize the paper as well as give the reader a hint as to what you will be talking about in the section. Always make sure that there is a point being made in your body paragraphs. I used to ramble when I didn’t know what else to say. In some cases it worked well because I was repeating some of my main points but too much repetition can damage a paper.

            Papers need coherence. As a writer you should make sure that your paper is relevant to your thesis and main points. With being relevant as I mentioned before you have to be organized. You can organize your paper so that it is chronological which a sequence of events is from earlier to recent or vice versa. Coordinating your paper you have two or more sections are equally supporting a common topic. A logical paper is the most complex order, the example and generalization. I have more experience using chronological order because that is what I have been taught to do since grade school. For me it is the most helpful because it helps me build me ideas off of one another.

            Clarity should always be an author’s goal. You want to make your ideas and points as clear and to the point as possible. You don’t want to give your readers a confused idea because that makes your paper less desirable to read and understand.