Link: How to organize an essay

I'm writing today because I'm trying to organize my desk.
My ordinary way to deal with "things" is to take them out of my pocket and throw them on my desk.
Today's one of those rare days when I try to deal with the accumulation of stuff on my desk.

No. I can't throw any of it away.
My problem (as I see it) is that I don't know where to put the stuff.
(I'm tying to organize, remember.)

After an hour, I'm on my third "thing". It's a small page of scribbled notes. Here's what it says:

thesis statement sets the course

a topic sentence for each paragraph

thesis or argument

topic sentence offers a preview of the paragraph

logic, flow, and argument

Part of my problem is I don't know the difference between a thesis and a topic. That's why I take notes like that.

In my on-line notes dated November of last year, this file in first draft, I have

https://www.wikihow.com/Organize-an-Essay

and nothing else. Turns out, that's the source of my scribbled notes. (So yeah, that page of scribbled notes sat on my desk for two months. Now you know how disorganized I really am.)

Okay, it's all in the computer now. I can throw away that page of notes and move on to thing 4.