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How to Write an Essay

Being able to write an essay is a very important skill to have in 6th grade. There are a few important steps. Those are the brainstorm, the rough draft, revising, and the final draft. You’ll also need some supplies to help with those big ideas. __**//STEP: 2//**__ Next you have to write a rough draft. A rough draft is a writing piece that you make before your final piece. You usually write rough drafts by hand. When you’re writing a rough draft you really don’t need to think about corrections. That’s why it’s called a rough draft. In a rough draft you take your ideas from your brainstorm and turn them into sentences. //**__STEP: 3__**// After your rough draft you can’t just go into your final draft. You have to revise it. Revising has a few different steps. First, you should correct all of your spelling mistakes. If you are unsure about a word, you should look it up. Next, is adding more details. Every time a sentence is very short you should add more details. The last step in revising is the grammar. The only time you usually fix grammar is when you’re using improper grammar such as “the cat walkded to the one parks.” One more thing that you should revise is the verbs. Try to make them more descriptive and invigorating. //Example//: Took <> Stole, Grabbed, Snatched
 * //__STEP:1__//** Before you start writing, you need to make a brainstorm. There’s a lot of different ways to brainstorm. One way is with a four square. That’s when you make four squares and put details from each paragraph in a separate square. Another good brainstorm is a web. In a web you make bubbles with main ideas for each paragraph and then you make little bubbles with details coming out of those. You can use resources from your binder, for instance, topic sentences and conclusion sentences.
 * __//STEP: 4//__** The last step of writing an essay is the final draft. The final draft is when you put everything from your rough draft, including the revisions, into one writing piece. You need to make sure that this step is the best you can make it because it is what your teacher will be grading you on. Final drafts are usually typed on computers. Before you hand it in you have to double space it by highlighting it and then pressing control and two at the same time. You also have to justify it. To justify you go to the arrow in the right corner and there is a small button with all even lines. That’s the justify button. You should also reread it before you hand it in. There’s a great chance that you messed something up.

Next time you have to write an essay you should think about this writing piece. It will surely help you if you’ve never written one before. This will also help if you forget how to write these. **Good luck** on the essays you’re going to have in the future.