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Make something you yourself want.

The reader is not entirely unlike you. If you write about a topic that is important to you, it will seem important to many readers as well.

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How to Write an Essay - The Jordan Peterson Writing Template

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Learning how to write an essay is a very difficult task. In school, it's often not taught in any systematic way. Students are left to either find their way by intuition or flounder. To address this problem, Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor at The University of Toronto, created a template for his students that takes them step by step through the detailed process of writing an essay.

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"Thinking makes you act effectively in the world. Thinking makes you win the battles you undertake...If you ..."

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The Levels of Resolution

An essay exists at multiple levels:

The choice of words
The formation of sentences
The arrangement of sentences in a paragraph
The arrangement of paragraphs in a logical progression, beginning to end
The essay as a whole

A good essay works at every one of those levels simultaneously.

Step 1: Choose Topic, Read & Take Notes

Writing begins with these 3 steps:

Pick a topic: because your essay should answer a central question.
Make a reading list: You should aim to read 5-10 books before you write an essay. And plenty of online sources.
Take Notes: of everything that catches your attention.

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5 Tips on How to Write a Speech for Any Occasion

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When figuring out how to write a speech, the essay form can offer a good foundation for the process. Just like essays, all speeches have three main sections: the introduction, the body, and the conclusion. However, unlike essays, speeches must be written to be heard as opposed to read.

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What is a speech?

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Just like essays, speeches have three main sections:

Introduction
Body
Conclusion

However, unlike essays, speeches must be written to ...

Tips on How to Write a Speech Essay

Determine the type of speech you're writing. Is it to inform people? Persuade? Entertain?
Craft a creative speech introduction with an attention-grabber, statement on your topic and a strong transition to the body.
Determine the flow of the body of the speech depending on the information consisting the body.
Write a memorable speech conclusion by restating the main points and ending with a memorable speech.
Address the key objectives by using some clever quotes, inspirational stories, meaningful transitions and a good ending.

Types of Speeches

Informative and Instructional Speech - Used to inform people about a certain topic, event or area of knowledge.
Persuasive Speech - Used to persuade people to join one side of an argument.
Entertaining Speech - Used to entertain audience, and topics may not be practical.
Special Occasion Speech - Used in special occasions to entertain or inform audience such as graduation, toasts, etc.

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Mind Mapping as a Tool for the Writing Process

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When I worked as a peer writing consultant at my university, students would often bring in drafts of essays that met all of the formal requirements of their assignments but lacked creativity and complexity. While these students were receptive to minor, sentence-level suggestions from me, related to grammar, word choice, or formatting guidelines, I found that they were uninterested in discussing the ideas behind their writing.

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Writing with good formatting ≠ good writing.

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Formatting with paragraphs, an introduction and a conclusion is not the central component of good writing.

The underlying purpose behind writing is to communicate information and is co...

Mind mapping: A tool for all writers

Mind Mapping is a tool to support writing processes. It provides a space for negotiating the tension between form and formlessness—the negotiation that is at the heart of the creative process.