How to organize your academic essay properly: effective tips for beginners

Organizing the academic essay is crucial to academic success. All academic essays follow a very singular format—you cannot ever try to invent your own format or to switch the parts around just to be different. You have to follow the specific essay structure which is

  • Introduction (optional)
  • Introduction with thesis statement at the end of it
  • Body paragraphs full of research, quotes, paraphrases, and your own evidence related statements
  • A good closing paragraph

Remember, all essays have these elements no matter how inventive the essay.

Academic Essays that Are Reflective: Organizing Personal Experience and Narrative academic essays

Narrative academic essays still follow the same format. For example, personal reflection essays still have an introductory paragraph and a closing paragraph, it is merely that your evidence paragraphs will act as evidence of your thesis. For example, “the experience that most certainly shaped me into an adult, was when I spent a full year helping my sister learn to run and walk again after she had polio. Now you would have to prove these through solid evidence, it would just not be research based evidence.

The Organization of an Academic Argumentative or Academic Persuasive Essay

Argumentative and persuasive academic essays follow a similar structure. They have one chief difference to the other kinds though. They acknowledge the most important arguments of their opponent and overcome them . This process is called “refutation.” It is a common technique in argumentation from Aristotle that is still used today.

Therefore Academic Argumentative Essays follow the following format (you use as many body of evidence paragraphs as you need to take up the pages of your essay, leaving three paragraphs—one for the acknowledgement of their most stringent oppositions, one to refute their opposition, and one for the closing paragraph.

Structure

  • Introduction
  • Body of Evidence Paragraph
  • Body of Evidence Paragraph
  • Body of Evidence Paragraph
  • Acknowledge the Opposition’s Chief Opposition to Our arguments
  • Refute their opposing arguments
  • Write the Closing Paragraph

The art of introductions

The chief goal of an introductory paragraph is not only to get to the thesis statement, the statement which tells your reader exactly what you plan to do in your academic essay but also to lure your reader in with one after another of interesting sentences that make them want to really yearn and long to read your academic essay.

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