Creating A Brilliant 9th Grade Literary Essay: A Step-By-Step Guide

Are you a 9th grade student ready to tackle a literary essay? This may be the first but certainly won’t be the last paper you will have to write. It’s a great help to have a guide to follow so you can perform the writing steps one by one in order. It helps the work to go by quickly and before you know it, you will have written a brilliant essay? Are you ready to get started?

The literary paper should be insightful and contain critical interpretations rather than just be a summary of characters, plot or environment. It is an opportunity for you to explore your own understanding of the work you are writing about and present it to your reader in a structured way.

1. Have a brainstorming session. Think and write down as many of your ideas as you can. It’s helpful to talk to other people at this stage as well, and bounce your ideas off them and see what ideas they can give you.
2. Evaluate your ideas. See which ones you think will be useful for making a great topic. Eliminate the ideas that don’t look like they will make a significant contribution. Once you’ve chosen a main topic, see which ideas can be used for supporting statements.
3. Conduct any research you will need. Let your original notes guide you but if you find the perfect pathway to follow to support your topic, go for it even if it deviates from your original plan.
4. Now you can make a flow chart or outline. This is a way of connecting all the dots. The ideas and evidence and information you’ve gathered can all be organized into a pattern. Each main idea becomes its own paragraph. This helps you to write the essay in a focused way.
5. The introduction should tell the reader what your literary paper is all about. It should also capture the reader’s attention and direct it toward the body of the paper.
6. Each paragraph in the body of the paper will support the main thought you are trying to get across. There should be a minimum of three supporting paragraphs.
7. The conclusion is the final and perhaps most memorable part of the paper. It should be a summary of the points you made and not contain any new information you haven’t already presented.