Steps for Writing a Paper Portland OR

Steps

1. - First, think about what you're writing about. The idea of the first sentence is to explain what you're writing about and introduce the topic.
2. - Once you think about that, you have to think of the best way to write it.
3. - The problem is, not many people want to write a paper or an essay for school. People tend to think about not wanting to write the paper, instead of just thinking about writing the paper.
4. - Think of the most simple way to put your topic into words. After you do that, go back and try to think of creative ideas to give your topic sentence more flavor.
5. - Be positive about it. Writing papers aren't fun, but after you get your topic sentence down, the rest is easy. Once you get it over with, you'll feel a lot better.

Tips

• Try to avoid is. Is makes your topic sentence boring, and doesn't normally get people to want to read the rest. You can use is in rest of the paragraph, but I wouldn't use it too often.
• If you want, you can use circular thinking to start your paragraph. It gets the paragraph started and makes people want to find out more. An example would be, this video game is boring because it is not exciting.
• Don't use "the" to start your first paragraph. Use it to get your idea down, but when you go back, get rid of it.
• Try not to dread writing a paragraph too much. Try to have fun and think of the positive things.

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