Writing Book 6 · Lesson 10

Structure

Structure is the arrangement of the parts, decided before any sentence is written.

What you read today

Essay Voyage, pages 23–27 — the chapter Structure.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.

Ask yourself: “What is this paragraph FOR?”

An essay has parts, and each part has one job.