Essay writing guide Essay Writing Guide You can use this word document to write an excellent essay from beginning to end using a ten-step process Most of the time students or would-be essay writers are provided only with basic information about how to wri

Essay Writing Guide You can use this word document to write an excellent essay from beginning to end using a ten-step process Most of the time students or would-be essay writers are provided only with basic information about how to write and most of that information concentrates on the details of formatting These are necessary details but writing is obviously far more than mere formatting If you write your essay according to this plan and you complete every step you will produce an essay that is at least very good You will also learn exactly how to write an essay which is something very valuable to learn To start writing your essay go to the next page for Part One Introduction Jordan B Peterson CPART ONE INTRODUCTION What is an essay An essay is a relatively short piece of writing on a particular topic However the word essay also means attempt or try An essay is therefore a short piece written by someone attempting to explore a topic or answer a question Why bother writing an essay Most of the time students write essays only because they are required to do so by a classroom instructor Thus students come to believe that essays are important primarily to demonstrate their knowledge to a teacher or professor This is simply and dangerously wrong even though such writing for demonstration may be practically necessary The primary reason to write an essay is so that the writer can formulate and organize an informed coherent and sophisticated set of ideas about something important Why is it important to bother with developing sophisticated ideas in turn It ? s because there is no di ?erence between doing so and thinking for starters It is important to think because action based on thinking is likely to be far less painful and more productive than action based upon ignorance So if you want to have a life characterized by competence productivity security originality and engagement rather than one that is nasty brutish and short you need to think carefully about important issues There is no better way to do so than to write This is because writing extends your memory facilitates editing and clari ?es your thinking You can write down more than you can easily remember so that your capacity to consider a number of ideas at the same time is broadened Furthermore once those ideas are written down you can move them around and change them word by word sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph You can also reject ideas that appear substandard after you consider them more carefully If you reject substandard ideas then all that you will have left will be good ideas You can keep those and use them Then you will have good original ideas at your ?ngertips and you will be able to organize and communicate them Consider your success over the course of a lifetime Here is something to think about the person who can formulate and communicate the

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