Sometimes, writing an essay would be difficult for students. This assignment looks for making this topic more dynamic and easier to learn.

1. University of Panama
Faculty of Art
English School
Advanced Composition
“Components to Write a Good Essay and
The Process of Writing”
By: García, Ana 2-740-1253
López, Rubén 2-742-393

2. Have you ever taken a lot of time
writing an essay, but at the end
the grade is not as good as you
wanted?
Don’t worry, we had
the same problem as
you. We didn’t know
about the components
of writing and its
process.
Probably, your ideas are not
the problem. The real
problem is not following the
steps.
My name is Ana and he is
Rubén. We are here to
explain you in a briefly way
about those topics, so take
a seat and keep with us till
the end.

3. Writing Process
First of all, you need to know
how the writing process is
divided and the components
that are in.
Pre-writing
During- writing
Post- writing
Remember! Each process
has components.
Central Idea Organization
Supporting Material
Word Choice Punctuation
Components
In the next slide we
explain you more about it!

4. Components to Write a Good Essay
Good essays for us are
pieces of writing which
are understandable for
readers. They should
have organization and
their ideas must have
coherence. Let's see
the components to
write good essays.

5. 1. Pre-writing:
They prepare the students for a final writing. Those
activities allow students focus on the audience, the
content, the ideas, and the vocabulary necessary for the
task. Some Prewriting techniques are:
Outline
Writing for an specific
time different ideas
without worries about
the punctuation and
grammar.
Writing down every
single word related
to the topic that
come to your mind.
Writing definitions,
main ideas and
organizing them in a
list.
In pre-writing we can find
components as the central
idea.

6. ● Central Idea:
After you read what the central idea
means, Can you identify the best central
idea for the topic “no homework”?
A. We should do our work at
school because we have better
equipment there.
If you want to
know the
answer, go to the
next slide!
It is the heart of your writing. It should be interesting and
important because it is what you are writing l about. All the
information you place in the essay or in the paragraph must be
related to the central idea.
B. We should not have homework.

7. The best option for the topic “no homework” is
the letter B because it is related to homework.
Why cannot the letter
A be the best option?
It cannot be the best option because it
says about doing the assignments in the
school and about equipments. It does
not talk about homework.
B. We should not have homework.

8. 2. During-writing:
This is a self-editing and revisions part. In this
stage, the students are guided through writing and
rewriting. The professor gives the necessary advices
to improve the paragraph. The most important here
are the ideas, the coherence, the supporting details
and the structure of the paragraph.
this part would include the
organization, supporting material
and the word choice.
We are making
progress! keep it up.

9. Does it make sense?
Analyse this example:
I hope you agree with me that we should not have homework.
Finally, it is hard to concentrate when you want to be outside
playing on a sunny day. Also, we should do it at school because we
can´t ask questions to our teacher when we do it at home.
.
Let’s see what
the organization
is about!
Organization is the order of your ideas. It is the way you move from one idea
to another one. Also, it refers to the logical sequence and coherence.
It means your paragraph should be
in chronological order (one idea
following the other one) and the
sentences must be related.
● Organization

10. Remember, the
paragraphs are for
reader and it is
important that they
understand them.
❖ Look at the Organize
Example
We should do the assignments at school
because we can´t ask questions to our teacher
when we do it at home. Finally, it is hard to
concentrate when you want to be outside
playing on a sunny day. I hope you agree with
me that we should not have homework.
Better!
Right?

11. Supporting material is composed by the details and sentences that will support the
central idea. They can be explanations, statistics, examples and information.
● Supporting Material:
This is an important part of
paragraphs and essays because it is
like the body of them. We should not have homework.
Central Idea
Supporting Material
● It takes away from family
time.
● You have to do your
homework instead of playing
a family board game or
playing catch.
As you can see each
supporting material is
linked to the central idea.

12. Word choice is select the appropriate language or words to
express our ideas, purposes and point of view in order to
catch the attention of your readers.
The words and expressions
that you use in a paragraph
are important because they
should be clear and
appropriate according to
your audience and purpose
of your writing.
● Word Choice:
Imagine you are a singer and
you have a teenager audience.
You cannot sing songs from the
80s because they would not like
those songs. The same happens
with paragraphs and essays.
You will have different kinds of
readers.
Let’s take a look
to this
Nice
Lovely

13. The punctuation, the spelling, the grammar rules are essential to understand the
message. The comma, semicolon, period, quotation mark, etc...
● Punctuation (Grammar):
Moreover you, cannot goes outside
for playing. So you will getting fat.
Moreover, you cannot go outside to
play, so you will get fat.
Probably, you can understand both,
but the first one is incorrect because it
does not have the punctuation mark
correctly and it has some grammatical
mistakes

14. 3. Post-writing:
It helps students reflect on and revise their writing
based on feedback from the readers, such as
classmates or professors. In this stage the ideas
should be clear. The mistakes can be misspelling,
punctuation.
And last but not least, in post writing
the last corrections are made.
Punctuation and misspellings are
examples.

15. Final Paragraph
No Homework
We should not have homework. It takes away from family time. You have to do your homework
instead of playing a family board game or playing catch. Moreover, you cannot go outside to play,
so you will get fat. If you bring it home you will rush through it, so you can play video games. We
should do our work at school because we have better equipment there. Also, we should do it at
school because we can´t ask questions to our teacher when we do it at home. Finally, it is hard to
concentrate when you want to be outside playing on a sunny day. I hope you agree with me that
we should not have homework.
After you following all the
step you obtain a good
writing!
It's not that
difficult now, is
it?

16. Take notes of every
single detail and you will
be a good writer.
Put into practice
the techniques
and components.
All the components and steps
are the complements for
good writing. It isn’t that
hard to tell whether a piece of
writing is good or bad. You
just have to read it.
Follow the techniques to have
a good one!
Thanks for staying until
the end and good luck for
your next essay!