Essay structure boot camp -- Collecting ideas as essayists -- Writing to learn -- Using elaboration prompts to grow ideas -- Mining our writing -- Boxes and bullets: framing essays -- Return to boot camp -- Composing and sorting mini-stories -- Creating parallelism in lists -- Organizing for drafting -- Paragraphing to organize our drafts -- Developing our own systems -- Writing introductions and conclusions -- Revising our work with goals in mind -- Correcting our writing for clarity by correcting run-on sentences and sentence fragments -- Moving from personal to persuasive -- Inquiry into persuasive essay -- Broader evidence -- Illuminating the relationship between evidence, reason, and thesis statement -- Getting ready to put our opinions into the world -- Hey world, listen up!