2. Quickly Outline Your Major Points
Before started writing essay, outlining your major points would save time.
Second, you should outline your major points before you begin writing your essay. When you were in junior high, you may have been required to turn in formal outlines with papers that you submitted for a grade.
While writing essay don’t bother to use roman numerals. Just jot down your points bulleted.
So, in the above example; If you've been asked to write an essay dealing with the topic of whether cities should put legal limits on the size of population that is widely growing, you should first sketch some major points. If you're using the six-paragraph essay structure, you should make four- major points, for example.
If you follow this step of outlining, you will be able to form the roadmap towards your essay and would not required to think that what to write as your points would help you.
3. Write Your Introduction and Conclusion Last
The third step you need to follow is to give the introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph as well after you've written main body paragraphs of your essay. It is very useful to save time as you would move forward to 2nd and the next paragraphs according to the situation you have created in the introductory paragraph .
As the weather forecaster predicts about weather lies ahead. Your strong introduction to any essay would give the prediction to test checker that what your further paragraphs are all about. Similarly, in your concluding paragraph, you can just sum up all the discussion you have just stated in the main paragraphing bodies.
4. Save Time to Edit Your Essay
Editing your essay will help you to make your essay error free. So, you are advised to be sure to edit essay after writing it. Though you have shortage of time while writing but you must try to set aside few minutes for proof reading. To check for spelling, grammar, and sentence structure mistakes, you should check for one other major thing: does each paragraph serve a clear function that supports the thesis of your essay?
If any paragraph does not seem correct, then try to make changes according to the other paragraphs rhythm and style.
Summary
O, we can summarize our discussion that in a short span of time when we are asked to write and essay, we can follow the four steps to write it effectively. Hence, first re-read the prompt or reading prompt more the once, then outlining paragraphs into major , using introductory and concluding paragraphs and finally making editing to would not only help us in saving time but also in writing the most appropriate essay.
Lesson Objective
The lesson have taught you that you can write an effective essay even in a short crunch of time if you follow the above explained four basic steps.