How to Write a Researched Essay: A Beginner’s Guide What is a researched essay? To begin, an essay is a composition consisting of three major parts: an introduction, the main body, and the conclusion, and uses various rhetorical modes to describe, define, or classify a subject. A researched essay goes a step further, by adding material from outside sources in the form of direct quotes or paraphrases that support the claims you have made in your essay. The researched portion of the essay gives credibility to your essay argument and provides validity for your thesis.How to Write a Researched Essay: A Beginner’s Guide provides the writer with some techniques to help get those ideas floating around in your head onto paper, or in a word processor, if you will. With a little preparation and planning and a lot of practice and hard work, you too can write a well-written researched essay.About the Author--Katrina Parker Williams teaches English grammar and composition at a community college. She is the author of the following titles available at Amazon.Read Katrina Parker Williams’ works:Fiction TitlesThe Dust Storm—A Short Story (Trouble Down South Series)Rock—A Short Story (Trouble Down South Series)Grandpa's Courtship—A Short Story (Trouble Down South Series)Slave Auction—A Short Story (Trouble Down South Series)Missus Buck—A Short Story (Trouble Down South Series)The Hankering—A Short Story (Trouble Down South Series)Trouble Down South and Other Stories—A Collection of Short StoriesNewest Works from The Girlfriend Tales Series at AmazonGirlfriend Tales: “Excess Baggage”Girlfriend Tales: “The ‘Other’ Other Woman”Girlfriend Tales: “Toxic Lies”Girlfriend Tales: "The Ties That Kill"The Girlfriend Tales Series (Volume I)The Girlfriend Tales is a series of short stories that addresses issues women grapple with from relationships to family to work and everything in between. Sprinkled with a dash of humor, these short stories offer a bit of mischief, mayhem, and even a murder or two. The short stories are of varied lengths from 3000-11,000 words.Nonfiction TitlesHow to Write a Great Short Story: A Beginner's GuideHow to Write a Basic Essay in Seven Easy Steps: A Beginner's GuideHow to Write a Researched Essay: A Beginner's GuideHow to Write an Argumentative Essay