Do you have to write an article or essay? Do you lack experience and know-how regarding how to organize your thoughts into an easily digestible article? If so, then look no further.
Here are some tips about how to write a persuasive or expository five-paragraph article in an easy-to-remember format consisting of twenty-five sentences.
Before writing your article according to those 25 steps, it helps to write down your thesis (or main point), and the three strongest arguments that show that that thesis is true.
It may help to envision those arguments, and the introduction and conclusion, as the columns that are supporting your main point.
Here are some tips about how to write a persuasive or expository five-paragraph article in an easy-to-remember format consisting of twenty-five sentences.
Before writing your article according to those 25 steps, it helps to write down your thesis (or main point), and the three strongest arguments that show that that thesis is true.
It may help to envision those arguments, and the introduction and conclusion, as the columns that are supporting your main point.
Sentence #1: State the thesis (or main point) of your article. Do this in a way that hooks the reader, by making it clear that they stand to benefit, in some way, from reading it.
Sentence #2: Summarize the first argument that supports your thesis.
Sentence #3: Summarize the second argument that supports your thesis.
Sentence #4: Summarize the third argument that supports your thesis.
Sentence #5: Re-state the main point of the article, in a way that exposes your conclusion, but without revealing so much information that it makes the reader want to stop reading.
Sentence #6: Remind the reader what the first supporting argument of the thesis is, but avoid making this sentence too similar to Sentence #2.
Sentence #7: Explain a fact that proves the first supporting argument. (This could be a hypothesis, a question, or a statement of fact necessary to understand the topic.)
Sentence #8: Explain a second fact that proves the first supporting argument. (This could be a statement of fact, an observation or thought-experiment, or a comment about how to perform an experiment which will help determine the truth about something.)
Sentence #9: Explain a third fact that proves the first supporting argument. (This could be a statement about facts that we can draw from our observations.)
Sentence #10: Re-state the first supporting argument, in a way that integrates the information from the previous three sentences.
Sentence #11: Remind the reader what the second supporting argument of the thesis is, but avoid making this sentence too similar to Sentence #3.
Sentence #12: Explain a fact that proves the second supporting argument. (This could be a hypothesis, a question, or a statement of fact necessary to understand the topic.)
Sentence #13: Explain a second fact that proves the second supporting argument. (This could be a statement of fact, an observation or thought-experiment, or a comment about how to perform an experiment which will help determine the truth about something.)
Sentence #14: Explain a third fact that proves the second supporting argument. (This could be a statement about facts that we can draw from our observations.)
Sentence #15: Re-state the second supporting argument, in a way that integrates the information from the previous three sentences.
Sentence #16: Remind the reader what the third supporting argument of the thesis is, but avoid making this sentence too similar to Sentence #4.
Sentence #17: Explain a fact that proves the third supporting argument. (This could be a hypothesis, a question, or a statement of fact necessary to understand the topic.)
Sentence #18: Explain a second fact that proves the third supporting argument. (This could be a statement of fact, an observation or thought-experiment, or a comment about how to perform an experiment which will help determine the truth about something.)
Sentence #19: Explain a third fact that proves the third supporting argument. (This could be a statement about facts that we can draw from our observations.)
Sentence #20: Re-state the third supporting argument, in a way that integrates the information from the previous three sentences.
Sentence #21: Re-state the main thesis in a way that profoundly integrates the information from the three previous paragraphs.
Sentence #22: Re-state the first supporting argument, in a way that profoundly integrates the information from the second paragraph.
Sentence #23: Re-state the second supporting argument, in a way that profoundly integrates the information from the third paragraph.
Sentence #24: Re-state the third supporting argument, in a way that profoundly integrates the information from the fourth paragraph.
Sentence #25: Write a final sentence that summarizes the key message that you want the reader to take away from reading the article; for example, a new way of thinking about the main topic.
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Based on what I learned in English class at
Lake Bluff, Illinois public school District #65
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