Article is a piece of writing that focuses on collection of ideas of the writer on a
particular topic in an organised manner. It should give opinions and thoughts
as well as facts. It is in a less formal style than a report. Following points
should be kept in mind while writing an article.
Provide a brief introduction to the topic. It can be general
Gradually move to description covering all aspects of the topic.
Conclude the article with a suitable suggestions, keeping in mind the
points discussed in the main body.
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How to Structure & Organize
Your Paper
Organizing Your Thoughts
Making sense out of your observations about a text is a difficult task. Even once you've
figured out what it is that you want to say, you are left with the problem of how to say it.
With which idea should you begin? Should you address the opinions of other thinkers? As to
that stubborn contradiction you've uncovered in your own thinking: what do you do with
that?
Writing papers in college requires that you come up with sophisticated, complex, and even
creative ways of structuring your ideas. Accordingly, there are no simple formulae that we
can offer you that will work for every paper, every time. We can, however, give you some
things to think about that will help you as you consider how to structure your paper.
Let Your Thesis Direct You
Begin by listening to your thesis. If it is well-written, it will tell you which way to go with
your paper. Suppose, for example, that in responding to Richard Pipes' book, The Russian
Revolution, you have written a thesis that says:
The purpose of the Russian Revolution was not only to revise Russia's class system, but to
create a new world, and within that world, a new kind of human being.
This thesis provides the writer (and the reader) with several clues about how best to
structure the paper. First, the thesis promises the reader that it will argue that the Russian
Revolution was not simply a matter of class. The paper will therefore begin by saying that
although the destruction of the Russian class system was important to the heart of this
revolution, it was not its final goal. The rest of the paper will be broken into two parts: the
revolution's vision of world communism, and (even more important) its vision of the new
homo sovieticus - or soviet human being.
I say that this idea of the homo sovieticus is more important than the idea of a new world
order not because the Russian revolutionaries thought so, but because the writer seems to
say so in her thesis. Read the thesis sentence again. Note how the emphasis falls on the last
phrase: "A new kind of human being." The emphasis in this sentence dictates the emphasis
of the entire paper. We expect, as readers, that the other issues taken up in this paper - the
destruction of class, the invention of a new world order - will be discussed in terms of
creating a new kind of human being. In other words, we won't be given simply a description
of how this revolution intended to affect world economy; we will be given a description of
how this revolution intended to manipulate economic conditions so that they would be more
favorable to the evolution of the new Soviet person.
Sketching Your Argument
While your thesis will provide you with your paper's general direction, it will not necessarily
provide you with a plan for how to organize all of your points, large and small. Here it might
be helpful to make a diagram or a sketch of your argument.
In sketching your argument your goal is to fill the page with your ideas. Begin by writing
your thesis. Put it where your instincts tell you to: at the top of the page, in the center, at