The Five-Paragraph Essay

Introductory paragraph

This is regarded as the first paragraph out of the five paragraphs of the essay. This section of the essay should contain a thesis statement, which can be said as the entire summary of the paper which defines what things are going to be jot down in the essay. It is important that you should add some hook up lines as well in order to engage the reader.

Second Paragraph

The second paragraph of the essay is of body and it should contain the strongest arguments, out of the box example and a great starting point of the details of the paper, and this is because if your reader gets engaged in this section than he would surely go to the next one too. It is also important that this paragraph should complement the first paragraph and should also contain the hook up lines which would engage the reader towards the third paragraph.

Third paragraph

The examples and illustrations in the third paragraph should be weaker than the second and should also have weaker arguments as compared to the first one, besides that it must contain a proper follow up of the second paragraph, you can keep this paragraph weaker, but the last sentence should be strong enough to transit the reader towards the fourth paragraph.

Fourth paragraph

This paragraph should be kept as the weakest as compared to others. It should be weak in terms of examples, illustrations etc. it should also have that traditional “hook up lines” and it should also compliment the previous paragraph so that the reader would not be distracted from the focal point. However it is important that the traditional transactional hook up lines should be added in order to over the reader towards concluding part.

Fifth paragraph (Conclusion)

This paragraph should contain the summary of the entire essay and it should also give the proper ending lines with the solution of the problem.