In my last post here on Thoughts on Thinking, I discussed 7 Tips for Integrating Critical Thinking into your Writing and one of those tips was to develop an organized structure. In writing, not a ...

Review the structure of an introduction (for instance "inverted funnel," i.e., general to specific topics). An introduction should teach readers enough about the subject to read the paper, and should ...

In this lesson, Joe explains how to write an introduction and conclusion for an opinion essay. Hi I'm Joe and today we're looking at how to write an introduction and conclusion in an essay. For this ...

There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

In his blog The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher, Ray Salazar argues that the five-paragraph essay should be tossed out the window. The Chicago public school teacher writes that the ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...

In my last post here on Thoughts on Thinking, I discussed 7 Tips for Integrating Critical Thinking into your Writing and one of those tips was to develop an organised structure. In writing, not a ...