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2. Help:Referencing for beginners - Wikipedia

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   To use it, click on at the top of the edit window, having already positioned your cursor after the sentence or fact you wish to reference. Then select one of the 'Templates' from the dropdown menu that best suits the type of source. These are: { {cite web}} for references to general websites.

3. Essay - Wikipedia

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   An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length ...

4. Help:Your first article - Wikipedia

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   Once you are familiar with the basics of Wikipedia editing, this page will guide you through the process of creating your first article! Specifically, you will learn how to: Determine whether Wikipedia should have a new article on the given subject. Identify and use reliable sources to support assertions in the article.

5. Five-paragraph essay - Wikipedia

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   The five-paragraph essay is a form of essay having five paragraphs: one concluding paragraph. The introduction serves to inform the reader of the basic premises, and then to state the author's thesis, or central idea. A thesis can also be used to point out the subject of each body paragraph. When a thesis essay is applied to this format, the ...

6. Wikipedia:Essays - Wikipedia

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   Essays, as used by Wikipedia editors, typically contain advice or opinions of one or more editors. The purpose of an essay is to aid or comment on the encyclopedia but not on any unrelated causes. Essays have no official status and do not speak for the Wikipedia community because they may be created and edited without overall community oversight.

7. Free writing - Wikipedia

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   Free writing is traditionally regarded as a prewriting technique practiced in academic environments, in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time with limited concern for rhetoric, conventions, and mechanics, sometimes working from a specific prompt provided by a teacher. [1] While free writing often produces raw, or even ...