This article should help you get an excellent grade on your next report.
Step 1
Write down all the details of the assignment, including the topic, when it is due, length, and specific format instructions (such as heading).
Step 2
Brainstorm your ideas about that particular topic.
Step 3
Write down how you will present your ideas in a specific order.
Step 4
Construct your first sentence.
Step 5
Write down your main ideas to be presented; depending on the length of the paper, five should be sufficient.
Step 6
Write your concluding sentences.
Step 7
Write down the title of the report.
Step 8
Evaluate and revise your paper (reread paper, correcting spelling, grammar and punctuation. Make sure you get the facts relating to Who, What, Why, Where, When, and How.
Step 9
Answer the following questions (if you answer negatively to any of them, consider revising again):
- Does my title catch my reader's attention?
- Does my introduction draw my reader into the paper?
- Is the opening paragraph easy to understand?
- Is every group of words a complete sentence?, Do all the sentences in each paragraph support the main idea?
- Should I take out any sentences?
- Is each paragraph clearly linked to the paragraph before and after?
- Does my conclusion restate my main idea?
- Does my report leave my reader with a sense of completeness?
- Does my last sentence remind my reader of my opening sentence?
Tips
Warnings
Things You'll Need
- pencils
- highlighters
- pens
- paper
- disks if using a computer
- dictionary
- thesaurus
- English grammar book
- note cards
