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Essay

Writing an academic essay means fashioning a coherent set of ideas into an argument
Essays are essentially linear—they offer one idea at a time
Present their ideas in the order that makes most sense to a reader
Successfully structuring an essay means attending to a reader's logic
Parts of an Essay
- Introducing the argument
  - Start of essay
- Analyzing data
- Concluding
  - End of essay
- Raising counterarguments
  - May appear within a paragraph, as a free-standing section, as part of the beginning, or before the ending
- Questions your reader might ask when encountering your thesis
  - What
    - What evidence shows that the phenomenon described by your thesis is true
  - How
    - The claims of the thesis are true in all cases
    - How does the thesis stand up to the challenge of a counterargument
    - How does the introduction of new material
  - Why
    - Why does your interpretation of a phenomenon matter to anyone beside you
    - This question addresses the larger implications of your thes
    - It allows your readers to understand your essay within a larger context