Your written report, whether it is a creative, three-paragraph essay, or it is an extensive research paper, must be organized in a way that presents a satisfying experience for the reader. Sometimes it just seems impossible to make a paper flow—but that generally happens because your paragraphs aren’t arranged in the best possible order.
Two essential features of a great-reading report are logical order and smart transitions.
Create Flow With Better Paragraph Order
The first step toward making creating flow is making sure your paragraphs are put together in a logical order. Many times, the first draft of a report or essay is a little choppy and out of sequence.
The good news about writing an essay of any length is that you can use cut and paste to rearrange your paragraphs. At first this might sound terrifying: when you finish a draft of an essay it feels much like you have given birth—and cutting and pasting sounds pretty brutal. Don’t worry.
Once you have finished a draft of your paper, save it and name it. Then make a second version by selecting the entire first draft and pasting it into a new document.
1. Now that you have a draft to experiment with, print it out and read it over. Read the rest of this entry »

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