Writing Process

How to Write a Paper Everyone has written a paper before, rather it followed the guidelines for the writing process or not. The paper writing process consists of steps that must be followed in order to have a fully developed paper. This process can relate to anyone because at one point in a person’s lifetime, he or she will have to write a paper. For example, he or she may have to write a paper for a scholarship or for a job assignment. But, many people forget important steps that hinders them from a fully developed paper. Three parts necessary to include when writing a paper are the introduction, body paragraph, and closing paragraph.
Introduction
First, the introduction should consist of three to five sentences. Within these three to five sentences, the writer should provide the reader with what he or she is writing about, the relevancy of the topic, and the audience for the paper. This paragraph should start off with an opening statement, which is the first sentence of the introduction. The opening statement is used to hook the reader by providing an interesting fact or a startling statement. For example, a good opening statement would be a statistic of how many people died from cancer last year. A number …show more content…
The importance of this paragraph is to draw the paper together by summarizing the three topics. This paragraph should end with a clincher sentence. A clincher sentence could restate the thesis or it could ask the reader a question about the topic that will leave the reader pondering. An example of this would be the one used in this essay, “Once an individual learns the correct way to write a paper, he or she will survive in any course.” Therefore, this leaves the reader with a statement that will make him or her process the correct way to write a paper and then will challenge him or her to follow the process so he or she will survive in any given