AWL/Reading Level & Essay Flow

In class today, we learned about improving our overall essays and the finishing touches since the final draft is due tomorrow. First, he reminded us about how to use better vocabulary in our academic essay. By copying each second draft of each paragraph (intro, body paragraph 1/2/3, conclusion) and pasting it into one of the online tools he provided, we can find out its AWL percentage. AWL means the Academic Word List, and he explained that we should moderate amount of these. Making sure that they're not overused or underused, can help improve the quality of our paragraphs. After checking each paragraph separately, he suggested that we put the paragraphs together into one entire essay, then repeat the same process as a whole. By doing so, we can check if our essay overall is balanced. Then, he taught us that all of our paragraphs should be around 8 to 11 sentences, and that they should all be abut the same. Lastly, once we put all the paragraphs together into one academic essay, we must check the flow of our paragraphs. He explained to us that they should be in chronological order, for example from big to small or from strong to weak. In addition, we should make sure that the essay has coherence. If something seems out of place or not related to the one theme, we must fix it. With these in mind, I'd like to polish up my essay and make it the best it can be!