Minimum steps to write an essay

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Minimum steps to write an essay

1. Selection of the topic: while the essayist has the power to express their views on the subject in question, no one can talk about what I don't know, so it is absolutely necessary that the theme chosen is of your knowledge. If this is not the case, then you will need to complete an investigation that will allow you to know him objectively, before thinking in its drafting.
2.  Search for the information: Once you've determined the topic, looking for the necessary information. Develops a questionnaire first considering your previous knowledge, as well as the consultation of bibliographic sources and of another type.
3. Organization: For properly organizing your ideas, decides that you are interested in say and how you want to do it. On the basis of the above: what and how, performs a plan or sketch that display the desired structure. Don't lose sight of the objective of your essay, because of this also depends on how motivating yourself your ideas.
4. Drafting, according to the order provided for: Writes while respecting the order that you've determined; develop your ideas the best you can, and when you're done reviews that your sentences and paragraphs are consistent and coherent. Notes link elements that these using and make sure that fulfill their missions. Don't let ideas unfinished or without relation to the other.

Essay must be submitted in a particular order

1. Home: this is the first sheet, and corresponds to the presentation of the test. They must be considered in the following points: institution, subject, title or theme of the essay, author, date and place. All distributed in the whole sheet with uppercase letters.
2. Introduction: it is the 10% of the test and covers more or less half-sheet. It is composed of three parts, a paragraph for each one of them. The justification for why he chose the theme of the essay and that was developed by the same. The content of the test, or, for that matter. And finally the limitations that had to do.
3. Development: constitutes 80% of the test; it covers more or less than 4 to 5 pages. In  the theme developed, using the internal structure: 60% of synthesis, 20% of summary and 20% of commentary.
4. Conclusions: contemplate the other 10% of the test, about half a page. They expressed the relevance of the topic, the importance, how to carry out the recommendations or contributions.
5. Adding the bibliography, which includes the sources from which the test basis. They are placed in alphabetical order, starting with the last name and first name of the author, then the title of the book consulted, the publishing house, country or city and the date of printing.

1. Types of information

1. Primary: constitute the purpose of the research and bibliographic data delivered to the reader at first hand. Example: books, monographs, theses, official documents, testimonies, documentaries
2. Secondary: in this type is already carried out a work of interpretation, i.e. it is reprocessed information first-hand. Example: compilations, abstracts, list of published references in an area of knowledge in particular.
3. Tertiary: are those documents that gather names and titles of journals and other periodicals, as well as the name of newsletters, conferences and symposia, web sites, among others.

Detection of the main idea

The writer must expose if idea in a paragraph that usually has three parts: the main prayer, the prayers and the prayer argumentative conclusive; all of them contain the same keyword or key idea that controls the information in the rest of the paragraph.

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