Writing Book 8 · Lesson 19

Three-Part Essay Structure

The three-part structure is the default shape, departed from only on purpose.

What you read today

Advanced Academic Writing, pages 6–6 — the chapter Three-Part Essay 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 does this part do that no other part does?”

Remember

Beginning, middle, end — and each part has a job it alone does.

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