Next you’ll want to work on your introduction and closing. Normally you’ll want to work on your paper in order, but since the closing is your selling part as well as a kind of review of the entire essay, you can finish this as well as the introduction before getting started on the body of the essay. It would help if you knew how strong your essay is to build your closing on, but by doing the closing first, it takes the pressure of doing a strong body for the essay off of you. It doesn’t regulate the body of the essay to merely fluff or filling since the important facts that support your point are all here, but getting the two important parts out of the way will give you time to focus on structuring the rest of your paper.