: Re: How Important are essay writing conventions in the university level and above? I go to a CEGEP, which is basically pre-university in Montreal. In my Introduction to English class, I had a teacher

Ultimately, your format is still the same as a 3 pronged essay so to speak. You start with your opener/thesis and then go into the body starting with point a, then point b, then point C, then conclude your thesis based on the body of work. All 3 points SHOULD flow together and if they do not, it will be really hard to follow.

If you are writing a paper about a topic in which you are trying to assert that the Holocaust was bad, you would not start with your first topic being total deaths, what methods were used to torture/kill people, why that particular group(s) of people were gathered. That sequence of prongs does not make sense in that order.

Just because it is a 3 pronged essay, that does not mean you throw out logical flow of the essay. You will start out by stating why those people were gathered up. Okay cool now we have an understanding for why this guy did these things. As a result of him gathering these people, these techniques were used to torture and slaughter them. Okay cool, now we understand what he did with those people and the techniques he used against them. Then we end it with the statistics of how many were killed/captured/ etc. okay cool, now we can see the results of him capturing and torturing people and we can agree that because of this flow, your thesis makes sense and agree with your conclusions.

You always want to have a logical flow. You always want to tie in one point to the next.

So what you are doing is correct, but it is still that "conventional" essay writing. You have your opener, thesis, prong 1, prong 2, prong 3, restate thesis, conclusion. How you make them flow together is what makes the art and skill of an essay come to life. If you do not make it flow well together, it will not make sense or enough sense for people to follow along and the essay fails it's job.

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