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1. Write a draft of your essay.
2. Go through it a paragraph at a time. Write one simple sentence expressing the claim that the paragraph is making. Be sure you write the claim - ie the point it is making - and not just the topic. Your summary sentence must be a complete sentence saying just one thing.
3. If you find a paragraph where you can't do this, find a way of splitting the paragraph or rewriting it so you can.
4. Review your list of sentences.
See if they make logical sense. Usually in a philosophical essay they will be steps of an argument. Check the logic - is there a step missing? (Write a new para to make good the gap.) Is there an irrelevant point? (Ditch it, or put it somewhere else where it fits better.) Are all the points in the correct logical order? (Re-order as necessary.)
5. Put in subheadings to make clear the structure of your essay - eg
6. When you have worked on your list of sentences (ie your synopsis) in this way rewrite the essay following the changes you have seen you need to make. Include the subheadings you have decided divide the essay into chunks that make sense.
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Revised 15:01:08 | Prepared by VP Centre for Professional Ethics | University of Central Lancashire | |
