Academic Essay WritingFor many high school students, the academic essay is a merciless monster that terrorizes their campus, a nightmarish beast that can tear out GPAs' hearts and wipe out all the hopes of admission to university. . Yet others tame this friend with ease, subjugating his cruel will to theirs as if it were nothing, as if they possessed a secret weapon. Well, guess what? They do it! Successful essayists succeed because they are armed with knowledge of exactly what an essay is and how it is written; they know that an essay is an organized group of paragraphs that forcefully assert and vividly support a central idea. Additionally, they know that organizing an academic essay is as simple as one, two, three: the introduction, body, and conclusion are the three essential parts. To begin, let's start with the introduction. Their job is to move from the general to the specific, introducing the topic of the essay, clarifying its central idea, and detailing its thesis statement. Yet, before he can do this, he should attempt to “hook” the reader by arousing their interest with an appropriate bait. The first way to hook a reader is to center an original title above the introduction. Please note the original word in this last sentence. Lazy and generic titles like “English Essay” or “Crucible Essay” are not effective because they are neither informative nor interesting. After an original title, a good introduction begins with one or two interesting sentences that serve to focus the general topic of the essay. Once this is done, the author becomes more specific and introduces the central idea of ​​the essay. A central idea is simply a clear statement of the author's opinion or position on a general topic. In my introduction to this...... middle of paper ...... that's not to say it's as unstoppable as Godzilla. Indeed, the curse of the essay is quite manageable if one keeps in mind its underlying characteristics. The basic academic essay is made up of five logically linked paragraphs that argue and defend a central idea, and the way it is structured is simplicity itself. When the writer keeps in mind the three parts of an essay – the introduction, the body and the conclusion – then much of the anxiety and confusion associated with writing an essay can be overcome . Like Frankenstein's creature, essays are written from distinct parts, but because they are composed of logically related ideas, they constitute an invention that can be tamed by organized thought. Indeed, writers who plan carefully and follow their plan are happy to find that their idea is not a scary monster, but rather a creation that reveals their true genius..