An ideally complete essay needs a proper topic title, a descriptive introduction, a thorough body with the main content, and a valuable conclusion to wrap things up. Right now, we’re going to discuss just what elements make up the most crucial part of the essay: the body itself.

The body of the essay is the boiling pot where all your ingredients come to mix and cook, metaphorically speaking. All the preparation, facts, arguments, research etc that you’ve conducted are to be incorporated into the body of the essay. When you’re writing the body of the essay, you will be required to now provide a thorough explanation of the topic you’ve chosen, your reasons for either agreeing or disagreeing with the topic in question (if it is persuasive) or provide a detailed explanation including steps to accomplish a particular goal or task (if it is explanatory) etc.

If you’ve already done your homework by penning down an outline for your essay, you’ll find that each main idea in your outline will become a part of the body paragraphs. That is to say, if you had three or four main ideas, you will obviously be writing three or four body paragraphs.

Once you refer to your ideas in the outline, you can write each body paragraph with the same basic structure. Here are a few tips on just what kind of structure should the body paragraphs of your essay follow:

• Write down one of your main ideas in the form of a sentence. Following this, write down each of your supporting points for that specific idea, but leave 4-5 lines between each point.

• You can elaborate further over each point in the space you left in between. The elaboration can be a further description, explanation or discussion of the idea.

• While your supporting point can be equal to one or two lines, the elaborations will be pretty descriptive. It may take 3-4 points, but since you’ve already left 4-5 lines in between each idea, you shouldn’t have a problem of space when writing the elaboration. Nevertheless, your elaboration must be substantial enough to provide valid insights.

• You may also include a summary sentence for each paragraph. While it’s normally not a requirement, you’ll find that such summary sentences may be useful. Of course, they may also sound redundant at times, so be careful while using them.

This will help you creating ‘juicier’ paragraphs for your essay’s body (and particularly one for each main point).