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Step by step guide to writing an essay

Putting ideas into your own words

• RIP
  • Read and Understand
  • Identify Main Ideas
  • Put Ideas Down in Your Own Words

• One way to identify main ideas is to look for the Who, What, When, Where, How and Why of a passage.
• Often, a paragraph's topic sentence will give you a hint about its main idea.

Outlining - An example of a five paragraph essay, an outline format, and a sample outline.