When writing a paper, organizing your thoughts and arguments is critical to getting your point across clearly and effectively. The first step is to form a tentative thesis with which you state your central idea. After you have written a rough draft based on your thesis you may want to revise your thesis to broaden or narrow your idea. The rest of the paper is all about supporting your thesis, and the first step is organizing your evidence. It is suggested to sketch an informal plan that organizes your ideas in bold points so you can expand on each later in separate paragraphs.
The best way to support your thesis is to use sources to inform and support your argument. To get your ideas across to the reader clearly, you must provide a background and explain terms that you use in your paper. It is always important to support you’re the claims you make in your paper with facts, examples or an experts opinion. It is also important to consider and/or anticipate countering objections and you should address them as part of your paper.
This is a very helpful chapter as I’m going to rewrite my paper. I was unsure how to organize my paper originally and it came out very unorganized. I had main points that I was trying to get across and there was a lot more information I wanted to include and I could not figure out how to piece it all together. This article shows how to really layout a paper and what to do with all of the evidence I gathered to prove my point.
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