February 22, 2009

Steps in writing a discussion essay


There are some useful steps to make an effective discussion essay. The steps are also important in the real exam where you can manage your time effectively. The first step is to build a home consisting our main ideas or mind map in which the topic sentence are expanded into more details to support the author's arguments. As an example, this post will try to respond to the following question:


Can a country keep its traditional way of life and develop? Or does development necessarily mean a change in traditions?
The picture below shows how we can develop a home to respond to that question.



Now we can expand those ideas to write an essay. We will present the results on the next postings..

Question and discussion:

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