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Essay: Types, Features & Basic Principles |
| Date Added: August 04, 2009 01:25:52 AM |
| Author: Angela |
| Category: Computers: Internet |
| Basically, the essay is a piece of writing in prose on any certain subject-matter in which the author purpose to present an individual interpretation of material. The word 'essay' is originated from a French word meaning 'act of weighing' and came to denote 'attempt, effort or its product'. Therefore, the essay signifies a trial or endeavor of an author to illustrate in the written form any point containing general ideas of a writer on a topic. Essays are believed to be endevours of writers to comprehend their own ideas and to share their ideas with others. Every day a lot of essays on various subjects appear in magazines and newspapers all over the world. Moreover, the essay is a preferable form of advanced writing practice at school. Essays may differ in size. But a school essay averages out at 500 words. In accordance with the manner in which the topic is treated, essays are divided into the following: reasoning, narration and description. The argumentative essay is a piece of writing in which writers put across their thoughts and provide arguments for or against a specified idea. The narrative essay is a description of events following one another. Facts are organised in keeping with the actual succession of happenings. The descriptive essay differs from the narrative essay in the order in which ideas and facts follow one another. It is not determined by the actual sequence of happenings but rather by typical characteristics of happenings or the author's arrangement of the presentation. The essay has three major obligatory structural parts: the introduction, the main body and the conclusion. It is worth remembering that coherence, clarity, consistence and logic are features of a perfectly written essay. Here are a few valuable tips on how to write a good essay. Before you get down to writing an essay it is necessary to collect, observe, analyse and combine facts relating to the subject-matter of an essay. In other words, data-base and a clear-cut plan of the future work are the prerequisites of a good essay. As soon as you have decided on a subject, organize facts in an order appropriate for the purpose of your essay and decide on the method of your data arrangement (comparison, contrast, analogy on facts, classification). Make a detailed outline that will help you keep to your scheme as you write. Keep to the assigned limits of space and learn not to exceed them. Determine your aims in the written form by making a thesis statement that will express a topic. Write down a preliminary draft to insure that you have organized your essay logically and that your introduction and conclusion are clear-cut to make your piece of creative writing more dynamic. Format your final draft in accordance with the specified requirements. As seen from the above mentioned, to develop the skill of creating an essay one should be knowledgeable about its peculiarities, types and features and keep practising, as practice makes perfect. |
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