Outline or diagram on paper ideas to show the essay's shape of ideas and organize thoughts that clearly represent the body of the paper's foundation. To construct a diagram, write your thesis statement in the middle of a piece of paper and draw three to five lines branching off the thesis statement. At the end of those lines, write down your main ideas and draw more lines off the main ones to reflect other thoughts and see how bits of information relate to one another (See Reference 3). Each main idea drawn on the diagram represents a separate section within your paper's body (See Reference 3).
Compose each body paragraph with the same basic structure by writing one of your main ideas as the paragraph's first sentence. Then, compose all the substantial supporting ideas in sentence format, omitting a few lines in between each main point---to return and fill in with relative support to associate smaller thoughts together (See Reference 3). Make sure that each individual body paragraph makes sense if it stands alone but ties together with each combined paragraph relating to the thesis (See Reference 3). Try to formulate reasonable counterarguments to prove false in the body's composition before composing the introduction (See Reference 1).
Check the paragraph order in the paper's body to assure the strongest points lie in the first and last paragraphs, with all other supporting paragraphs in the body's middle section (See Reference 3). Add phrases within those paragraphs to link thoughts and ideas and accentuate sentence flow. Order of difficulty, order of significance and time order are fundamental and logical ways to form thoughts that help the reader follow the body's flow of ideas (See Reference 4).