ESSAYSource: Introduction to Humanities, Lamucho; Philippine

Literature, Dones

What is Essay?•Non-fiction

•Writer’s opinion or explanation about a certain topic.

•Essay is from Michel de Montague’s collection of short prose writings – Essais (or attempts).

•Assay means to test or to evaluate.

Other noted English writers of formal essays:•Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism (1771)

•William Hazlitt: Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays (1871)

•Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature (1836)

•Susan Sontag: Styles of Radical Will (1969)

Elements of Essay:

Style

•Mode or tone

•Attitude

•Sensibility

Design

•Unfold and

explain the

truth

Sequence

•Logical order

of details

Two General Types of EssayFormal (Impersonal Essay)

•Serious and important topics

•Teach and instruct

Informal(Familiar Essay)

•Ordinary subjects

•Emotion than intellect

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