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Writing a good essay can be a lot of work. People may think that it's not so difficult to talk about a subject, but giving logical reasons and persuading your reader into understanding your point of view, might be a little tougher. As students, we've already seen many ways on how to write a good essay, although it's extremely necessary to carefully follow the steps that are shown here: a thesis for the introduction, reasons for the body paragraphs and a conclusion to your thesis. I haven't heard about the term "hook" before, even though I now think it can be one of the most important parts on your text -- getting the reader's attention. 

As for resources on how to write an essay, I don't have any recommendations, but I'm sure that just a quick search on the internet will show you tons of different materials. Even some accounts on Instagram for example, are willing to help people on this matter, with tips and suggestions. Concerning the videos above, despite that they're pretty simple, they're indeed helpful.

Writing an essay may seem easy at first, but it involves several subtle nuances that are very easy to be overlooked — and that's where the danger lies. This task follows one since high school, perhaps in a more simplified manner, and maybe that's why it's easily taken for granted or understood. In order to develop a quality work, though, the recipe is simple: keeping an eye to the fundamental characteristics of each part of the essay's structure is essential. Actually, not only is the structure of the essay important — which involves the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion — but also is the use of transitions. The usage of this artifice is what strikes me the most since it's fundamental to keep the text organic, palatable, and fluid to the reader — which is the writer's goal.

I must confess: I'm not a big fan of ESSAYS. They tend to be . I know: it is central in our academic world. Important for science. You can share ideas for a broad audience. And it is a rite EVERY student must pass through . So... I dig that.

These four videos summarize perfectly the main aspects on "HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY". I would like to point out the importance of the THESIS STATEMENT and TRANSITIONS. The first one may be the most crucial thing in an essay because summarizes the main point of your writing (the subject you are bringing about). In order you have to be concise, clear and careful (I like to call it "The C Method"... See?). You cannot fool around. And TRANSITIONS leave the text more flexible. It is something that gives motion to your writing (and put away the monotony). 

Of course, me, an avid explorer of KNOWLEDGE would look up for more resources (to add new perspectives and so on). And I can say that Ariel

I learned many things from the videos, more than I thought I would. This series of videos brought the most thorough and complete content I have seen. I always loved writing, but I started studying about the structure when I was studying to get into college. The first time I encountered good content about essay structure was by coincidence, and I remember it was Ariel Bissett’s video, which was already mentioned here by one of my colleagues.  I also had an English teacher who prepared a whole class about academic essay structure even though this was not obligatory in the course syllabus. Studying essay structure is essential for every student and made me realize that I had already known some elements unconsciously, but learning about each detail of the structure helps to keep good quality in our writings and to be able to understand why an essay was considered good or not so good.  

As someone who has been out of high school for a long time, I have not had to write many essays in the past decade, so these videos really helped me out in remembering the basic structure of an essay. I specially liked watching the video on transitions which gives straightforward examples on how to better link the essay paragraphs.

I don't have any recommendations on online resources about how to write an essay but coincidentally the other day I stumbled upon a buzzfeed quizz about essays, so here it is: https://www.buzzfeed.com/shelbyheinrich/basic-essay-components