How do I write a strong body paragraph for analysis?
I’ve been staring at blank pages for years now, watching students panic over body paragraphs, watching professors mark them up with red ink, watching the same mistakes repeat themselves across hundreds of submissions. The thing about body paragraphs is that they’re not actually mysterious. They’re just misunderstood. When I started teaching writing at the university […]
What Structure Works Best for Compare-and-Contrast Essays?
I’ve spent the better part of a decade reading student essays, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that compare-and-contrast essays break people in ways other assignments don’t. Not because they’re inherently difficult, but because students approach them without a clear structural framework. They wander. They meander. They compare one thing to another, then […]