A Brief History
Today, we ask, “Are you trying to write a really good historical essay?” You will not be the first. Writing a historical essay that is meaningful, and yet avoiding errors can be somewhat daunting for a new content creator, writer or students who want to begin a career as freelancers by helping their friends write some essays for cash.
It can be mystifying going about the start of writing your essay. Although many articles online exhaustively deal with this issue, yet it still seems complicated to practically enact. In this article, we will expound a better, more vivid and easier way on how to write great pieces with actionable, easily followed steps. Our approach will incorporate the character analysis essay and APA outline guide.
Digging Deeper
Steps to take to avoid mistakes
- First study your question, story or topic
It’s a usual thing for many beginner writers to jump into answering or writing on a topic after only one ‘glance reading’. This is where the error begins. You are expected to take time out to read, understand and assimilate your question topic or the story you are working on because sometimes there might be hidden meanings to it. Therefore, you don’t want to jump into or rush things.
- Know your audience
When writing a historical essay, one thing you should bear in mind is who your audience is. This is in order to know how to efficiently lay out your content and character analysis to them. Your audience can be children or adults, and there are different methods of writing your essay to meet each level of understanding. You don’t want to write an essay for kids with an adult vocabulary.
- Start with a plan (Using APA research paper outline)
Properly laying a groundwork or a plan on how to construct your story is a great way to prevent you from getting lost in the middle of your story, and this is where the APA guide comes in. This guide helps you to design a perfect writing plan and makes this blueprint easier to stick to. According to papersowl.com, APA research paper outline has stages for the perfect essay:
- Introduction: the first stage is the introduction of your essay; this is more like an overview of what your audience should expect. This should be about 2 to 5 paragraphs; it should brief and straight to the point to prevent your reader from loss of interest. Your essay introduction will keep your reader invested in the main content or body of the essay.
- Main content: also known as the body. This is the central thrust of your essay. Here, you are expected to take your time and express what your essay is all about. This entails delving into detail after detail, sometimes with proper illustration as well as credible evidence. The points in your main content must be well organized to avoid cluttering since this can also result in your audience’s attention drifting away. You should also start with the more important points and then move to the less important details, for easy understanding. Paragraphs should be used to begin each new point. Though there is not a particular number of paragraphs that should be employed, there shouldn’t be too many of them.
- Conclusion: This is the final stage of the essay and it should not be pushed aside or rushed. This part of your essay restates what your essay is all about, starting from your introduction and the body content, in case your audience is a bit lost. It’s also important that the audience is made aware that your essay is approaching its conclusion so as to prepare their mind. This ending should be in a summed up in a statement of one to two paragraphs.
With the structure above we can see how perfectly effective an outline can be in historical writing essay.
Using a character analysis essay to prevent mistakes when writing a historical essay
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Character analysis is an effective approach in essay writing that is helpful in efficiently explaining and describing who the characters in our essays are. As a content writer or student writer, this part may not be as hard as it looks. And it is also required for your audience’s better assimilation of the characters’ personalities, and helps to widen their imagination. As a writer, it helps you to consign your analysis of your character role to either Antagonist or Protagonist specifics.
In writing a character analysis essay you have to define your character as;
- Static Character: this is a character that never changes but has a static role throughout your story.
- Flat Character: they have two personalities that do not change but remain the same throughout the essay.
- Round character: this is a character that has multiple personalities.
- Dynamic character is a character that changes as the story develops, opposite to the static character.
Obviously, we can see that writing a historical essay without a mistake is possible and doable, provided that the above steps are effectively followed and implemented.
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Rampolla, Mary Lynn. A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017.
The featured image in this article, SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (Sept. 26, 2011), sailors assigned to USS Constitution teach naval history to students at Agawam Junior High School during New England Navy Week, one of 21 Navy weeks planned across America for 2011, was released by the United States Navy with the ID 110926-N-AU127-045 (next). This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. Navy weeks are intended to show the investment Americans have made in their Navy and increase awareness in cities that do not have a significant Navy presence. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Shannon Heavin/Released)
