The title of your first essay

Open with the claim, not with throat-clearing. The reason a page like this works is that there is nothing on it to look at except the sentences, so the sentences have to carry it.

A second paragraph. You can put a bold phrase in the middle of a line, or an emphasised one, or a link out to a source. Footnotes work too¹ — click the number and the page jumps to the bottom.

A section heading

Break a long piece into sections. Readers scan before they commit, and headings are what they scan.

• A list item, when the structure really is a list
• Another one
• A third

A pulled quotation, set off from the rest. Use it rarely — it loses its force if every third paragraph is one.

Another section

Close with the thing you want remembered. Then stop.

Thanks to A, B, and C for reading drafts.