Recommendations for writing an essay in French

The goals of an essay may be different, but the structure remains the same, regardless of the subject matter.

Plan of work for the essay

- choose a topic

- prepare an outline or an outline of your ideas

- express the main thesis

- identify the main ideas, additional ideas, develop them

- write an introduction

- write a conclusion

- check up

Choose a topic

Even if you are offered only one topic for writing an essay, it is necessary to prepare mentally for its presentation. Think about what is expected of you. If there are several topics, study each one carefully and analyze your associations and preferences.

Whatever the form of your argument, it is important that the paper has three parts: the introduction, the main body, and the conclusion.

Your essay should be domywriting according to a plan, which should correspond to the main and secondary ideas - the arguments of your paper. In the plan reflect two or three main ideas, for each of them - additional ideas that will help confirm your arguments; for each idea, choose an example-illustration.

Organize the ideas

Making a plan or outline will help in organizing your ideas. Begin them with the topic of your essay. Then, in a numbered list, identify the three main ideas of your chosen topic. If you are going to be persuasive about something, write down the best arguments. If you want to explain something, identify the main steps and sequence of the explanation. If you want to communicate something, write down the main categories into which your message will fall.

Around each main idea, give paper writing services examples to support it.

Write an Introduction

The introduction is meant to give the reader an idea of the main direction of your thoughts in the essay. The introduction is not broken up into paragraphs and presents a single block. The introduction should be neither too long nor too short: a few lines are enough to outline the main points of your work. The introduction does not express a personal opinion. It only highlights the topic and the way in which you are going to develop it, i.e. it sets the problem.

The introduction has three parts:

1) retell the topic proposed for the essay in your own words. You can put the topic in a temporal and spatial framework, such as relating it to your era or cultural/geographical context;

2) highlight the main problem of the proposed topic;

3) summarize your plan: list in one sentence two or three main ideas that will be developed in the essay: Nous débuterons cette argumentation pas... pour démonter que... Enfin, nous nous penchons sur...

The introduction can also be composed after writing the main body of the essay.

Write the main part

Divide the main part into two or three, according to your main ideas that you have already highlighted in the plan/chart in the prewriting phase. Each part corresponds to one idea and represents a separate paragraph. Each part should be consistent in meaning, but different from the other. The different parts should be balanced, i.e. they should be about the same length. each paragraph should address the arguments for/against, the cause-and-effect relationships. The main ideas should be argued and illustrated with examples.

Each paragraph should be written following a unified structure:

- begin the paragraph by stating the main idea;

- expand on the main idea, backing it up with examples, explanations, and arguments;

- If you wish, each paragraph could end with a conclusion.

Write a conclusion

The conclusion is the last part of your paper. It is important to give it special attention. The conclusion is a synthesis of everything you wrote earlier, but worded differently, without repetition. In the conclusion, you can express your personal opinion on the topic of the essay.

Check

After writing the essay, read it again and check the logic of the presentation, compliance of the word count with the requirements, spelling and punctuation, agreement in gender, persons and numbers