By Julianna Dotten
I know. It’s a big step. The days of elementary school stories and paragraph-writing are over. Your student is ready to take the leap into the world of theses, propositions, and MLA. Where do you begin? Let me share the tips that have fed my passion for the essay.
1. Write to a thesis.
I was writing essays and even inserting thesis statements for years before I really grasped the foundation of persuasive writing. In my first college class, my professor handed us an overview of a thesis and said, “In this college, you’re expected to write to a thesis.” Suddenly, it all clicked. This is what my writing teacher (my mother) had been trying to tell me all along.
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