| Essentially, the ESSAY is a piece of writing in prose on any subject-matter in which the author aims at presenting his or her personal view 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 endeavour of a writer to express in writing any point containing general thoughts of a writer on a certain subject-matter. Essays are thought to be endevors of authors to comprehend their own ideas and to express their ideas to others. A great number of essays have been written on every topic in the press. Moreover, the essay is a preferable type of advanced writing practice at school.
Essays may vary in size. nonetheless, a school essay averages out at 500 words. In accordance with the manner in which the subject-matter is presented, essays can be divided into the following: ARGUMENTATION, NARRATION and DESCRIPTION.
The argumentative essay is a piece of writing in which writers bring forward their thoughts and provide arguments for or against a particular point of view.
The narrative essay is a description of events following one another. The material is arranged in keeping with the actual order of happenings.
The descriptive essay differs from the narrative essay in the order in which thoughts and facts follow one another. It does not depend upon the actual sequence of events but rather upon typical characteristics of events or the author's pattern of the presentation.
The essay contains 3 main obligatory structural parts: the introductory part, the main body and the conclusion. It is worth remembering that a perfect essay is characterised by coherence, clarity, logic and consistence.
Here are some useful recommendations on how to create a clear-cut essay. Before creating an essay it is important to gather, observe, analyse and combine facts pertaining to the subject-matter of an essay. To put it differently, data-base and a clear-cut scheme of the future work are essential for writing a perfect essay.
Given a topic, set up facts in an order appropriate for the purpose of your essay and pick out the method of your data set-up (comparison, contrast, analogy on facts, classification). Make a detailed outline which will help you keep to your plan as you write. Keep to the specified limits of space and learn not to exceed them. Define your aims in the written form by making a thesis statement that will express a topic. Jot down a preliminary draft to insure that you have organised your essay logically and that your introductory part and conclusion are clear-cut to make your piece of writing more effective. Your final draft should be formatted in accordance with the specified requirements.
Thus, to develop the skill of writing an essay one should be knowledgeable about its basic principles, types and features and keep practising, because practice makes perfect. |
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