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Essay: Types, Features & Basic Principles |
| Date Added: August 03, 2009 01:06:03 AM |
| Author: Angela |
| Category: Education And Reference |
| Essentially, the essay is a piece of writing in prose on any topic in which the author aims to give an individual understanding of a subject. The word 'essay' is derived from a French word meaning 'act of weighing' and denotes 'attempt, effort or its product'. Thus, the essay is a trial or endeavour of an author to present in the written form any opinion containing general thoughts of a writer on a subject. Essays are thought to be endevours of authors to comprehend their own ideas and to express their thoughts to others. Countless essays have been published on every topic in the press. More than that, the essay is the most common type of advanced writing practice at school. Essays differ in size. nonetheless, a school essay normally contains five hundred words on average. According to the manner in which the subject-matter is treated, essays can be divided into the following: reasoning, narration and description. The argumentative essay is a piece of writing in which writers communicate their views or opinions and argue for or against a specified idea. The narrative essay is a description of happenings sequencing one another. The material is organised in keeping with the real sequence of happenings. The descriptive essay differs from the narrative type in the order in which thoughts and facts follow one another. It does not depend on the actual succession of events but rather on features of happenings or the author's set-up of the presentation. The essay has 3 main 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 some tips on how to write a clear-cut essay. Before starting an essay it is important to collect, observe, analyze and combine facts relevant to the topic of an essay. To put it differently, data-base and a clear-cut scheme of the future work are essential for writing an excellent essay. Given a topic, arrange facts in an order appropriate to the goals of your essay and choose the method of your data set-up (comparison, contrast, analogy on facts, classification). Make a detailed outline that will help you keep to your plan as you write. Stick to the specified limits of space and learn not to exceed them. Determine your aims in the written form by making a thesis statement that expresses a topic. Write a preliminary draft to assure that you have set up your essay logically and that your introductory part and conclusion are clear-cut to make your piece of writing more dynamic. Your final draft should be formatted in line with the assigned requirements. As seen from the above mentioned, to acquire the skill of writing an essay one should be well aware of its peculiarities, types and features and keep practising, as practice makes perfect. |
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