After you have built your thesis statement...you have now built your paper.

Introductions serve to grab readers’ interest, introduce your topic, and explain specifically what you will be focusing on in your essay.

Conclusions need to wrap up all of the main ideas talked about in the essay and show how all of the main points relate back to the thesis to help prove the claim that the thesis suggests.

Learning to write good paragraphs will help you as a writer stay on track during your drafting and revision stages. 

Good paragraphing also greatly assists your readers in following a piece of writing. 

You can have fantastic ideas, but if those ideas aren’t presented in an organized fashion, you will lose your readers.

An effective summary condenses the original text and provides the author’s thesis (an overarching idea/ theme/ purpose) and the key points.

Sometimes it can be hard to find the most fitting phrase to transition one idea into another. 

Get used to using some of the most common transitions and it will become easier and easier each new time you write.