无论是小essay仍是长篇大论的thesis，都有固定的逻辑结构，学术性文章特别如此。弄懂这些不仅对写作有益，也可以做到在阅览时对文章结构有预期，利于速读和了解，一篇文章无非以下几个部分：
1.introducing the argument（引入主要观点）；
2.analyzing data（分析事例）；
3.raising counter-arguments（提出反论）；
4.concluding（总结）；
1和4明显位于文章的首位，其他部分则视需求有所不同。写文章时，把自己放在一个答复问题者的方位上，文章的不同部分用来答复读者阅览你文章或许提出的不同问题。
第一、尽量让essay的内容愈加自我一点。
第二、不要扯谎。我们或许都以为自己可以奉告招生官你是谁，其实实在展现自己的时分，你并没有遗忘实在的自己。这儿并不是指作价简历、夸大自己的效果……而是说，夸大你的政策。你可以说你去了物理夏令营，在AP考试中得到5分。但是不要说你想成为下一个居里夫人。在这个阶段很少有学生可以做到这一点，假定你不知道自己要什么，不要紧，在做世界上，许多成功人士不知道自己想要什么。但是，你仍是要写你的方案，最好有满足的吸引力，甚至让人有激动与你同行。
第三、essay的写作比方一个“出去喝酒”的检验。当然，这儿所说的喝酒并不是真的喝酒，而是说假定奉告你想和你一同喝酒，阐明你对我来说有吸引力。写essay也是相同，你需求向对方展现，你是一个诙谐的人，一个有吸引力的人，那么你就优异了。
第四、essay亮出你的创造力。当你静下来看这个世界的时分，你可以看到时刻间断的一刻，然后很想知道为什么人们看待作业的方法和视点如此不同。当你某一次向你最好的朋友说明自己的时分，他们将你当疯子相同看着，那么你就成功了。想要招生官读你的essay，那么你应该先自己读下，甚至会忽然目光放光，大声一句“啊，我从没想过我可以这么优异”。
第五、essay可以鼓动某些人。相逢何必曾相识，你的essay需求表达出这样一种意境和感觉。想一想你想要入学的大学需求什么样的学生。一般美国大学希望招受可以鼓动其他同学的学生，可以给校园带来改动的你，会在结业后做出一些让人形象深化的作业，然后回到校园回馈校园，或许捐款，或许花时刻和校友们一同同享，至少可以做一两个结业讲演。当年我做招生面试官的时分，遇到这样一个申请者，我会遗忘自己是一名招生官，狂呼，这个学生多让人形象深化，我很愿意和她成为朋友。
终究，哈佛写作中心的铭信同享给我们：
Essay Structure Writing an academic essay means fashioning a coherent set of ideas into an argument. Because essays are essentially linear—they offer one idea at a time—they must present their ideas in the order that makes most sense to a reader. Successfully structuring an essay means attending to a reader’s logic. The focus of such an essay predicts its structure. It dictates the information readers need to know and the order in which they need to receive it. Thus your essay’s structure is necessarily unique to the main claim you’re making. Although there are guidelines for constructing certain classic essay types (e.g., comparative analysis), there are no set formulas.
Answering Questions: The Parts of an Essay A typical essay contains many different kinds of information, often located in specialized parts or sections. Even short essays perform several different operations: introducing the argument, analyzing data, raising counter-arguments, concluding. Introductions and conclusions have fixed places, but other parts don’t. Counter-argument, for example, may appear within a paragraph, as a free-standing section, as part of the beginning, or before the ending. Background material (historical context or biographical information, a summary of relevant theory or criticism, the definition of a key term) often appears at the beginning of the essay, between the introduction and the first analytical section, but might also appear near the beginning of the specific section to which it’s relevant.
It’s helpful to think of the different essay sections as answering a series of questions your reader might ask when encountering your thesis. (Readers should have questions. If they don’t, your thesis is most likely simply an observation of fact, not an arguable claim.) “What The first question to anticipate from a reader is “what”: What evidence shows that the phenomenon described by your thesis is true? To answer the question you must examine your evidence, thus demonstrating.
