Writing my essay

At first I was wondering how I was going to be able to make my essay different from my research proposal while maintaining the same topic. However, this proved to be easy and they turned out very different. In fact some of the additional research I did for the essay has caused me to revisit my proposal and alter it a bit based on the new information. The first half of my essay is loosely modeled after the more narrative style essays we read, and the second half is mostly analytical for the purpose of providing information to support my original statements. I struggled to make the essay flow smoothly, since I had a rather drastic stylistic change. The method that I found to be most successful was to continually refer back to the main point of the introduction, hence reminding my readers of the thesis and maintaining their interest by leading them to the conclusion rather than presenting it to them.