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TOPICEssay Writing

DEFINITION

DEFINITION

The word essay is defined in “The concise oxford dictionary” as “a literary composition (usually prose and short) on any subject”. Properly speaking, it is written composition giving expression to one’s own personal ideas or opinion on some topic; but the term usually covers also any written compisition, it expresses personal opinions, or gives informatin on any given subject, or details of a narrative or description.

HISTORYThe first known system of writing is Sumerian cuneiform, which dates back to c. 3300 BCE. It began as a system of simple pictographs (images that represented a single word).

Recorded history or written history is a historical narrative based on a written record or other documented communication. Recorded history can be contrasted with other narratives of the past such as mythological or oral traditions.

This new way of interpreting signs is called the rebus principle. Only a few examples of its use exist in the earliest stages of cuneiform from between 3200 and 3000 B.C. The consistent use of this type of phonetic writing only becomes apparent after 2600 B.C. It constitutes the beginning of a true writing system characterized by a complex combination of word-signs and phonograms—signs for vowels and syllables—that allowed the scribe to express ideas. By the middle of the third millennium B.C., cuneiform primarily written on clay tablets was used for a vast array of economic, religious, political, literary, and scholarly documents

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CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD ESSAY

CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD ESSAY

1.Unity 2.Order3.Brevity4.Style

UNITY An essay must be unity, developing one theme with definite purpose. The subject must be clearly define in the mind and kept in view throughout. Nothing that is not relevant to it should be admitted essay.

ORDER The essay should follow the certain ordered line of thought and come to definite conclusion .It should not consist of haphazard reflections put down anyhow. There should be not only unity of subject but also unity of treatment.

BREVITY

A good essay should be not too long or short. The limit should be about 700 to 900 words. But an essay should be a brief exercise, concisely expressed.

STYLES

In friendly letters, the style should be conversational-essay natural and familiar.

CLASSIFICATION

CLASSIFICATIONEssays may be classified as Narrative Essays, Descriptive Essays, Reflective Essays, Imaginative Essays and Expository Essays.

1. Reflective Essay2. Narrative Essays3. Descriptive Essays4. Expository Essays5. Imaginative Essays

REFLEXIVE ESSAY

A reflection is a thought on some subject on an idea arising in the mind. So a reflective essay consist of reflections or thoughts on some topic, which is generally of an abstract nature, For example 1. Habits, qualities, such as

truthfulness, thrift, temperance, heroism, industry.

2. Social, political and. domestic topics such as riches and poverty, cast, democracy. Liberty.

3. Religion and theological topics.

NARRATIVE ESSAYSA narrative essay consists mainly in the narration of some event, or series of events. I say “mainly” because a narrative essay must not be confused with short story bits of history. Narrative essay treat as: 1. Historical stories of legends. 2. Biographies. 3. Incident. 4. An accident or natural disaster. 5. A journey. 6. A story (real or imaginary).

DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

A descriptive essay consists of a description of a thing or place.1. Animal, plants, minerals.2. Towns, countries, Buildings.3. Aspects and phenomena of nature.4. Manufactured articles.

EXPOSITORY ESSAYAn expository essay consist of an

exposition or expiation or some subject as

1. Institution, industries, occupation.

2. Scientific topics as gravitation, evolution, astronomy.

3. Literary topics as nature or poetry.

IMAGINATIVE ESSAY

An essay on subject such as the feelings and experiences of the sailor wrecked on Desert Island may be called imaginative essays. In such as the writer is called to place himself in imagination in a position of which he has no actual experience. Such subject as “if I were a king”, or “The autobiography of a horse” would call for imaginative essay.

STRUCTURE OF ESSAY

STRUCTURE OF ESSAY

1. The introduction2. The body of essay3. The conclusion

THE SUMMARY OF ESSAY

STRUCTURE OF ESSAY

1.Clearly define the subject in your own mind.

2.Think over it , until ideas about it come in your mind and jot the points write down on the paper as they occur to you- numbering them.

3.Classify these points in groups under suitable heading, rejected any that are not suitable.

4.Arranges these headings in bare outline.

5.Fill in outline, making a full outline.

1. Now being to write essay, dividing into paragraphs .

2. The essay should consist of introduction ,body and conclusion as .

3. make the introduction arresting .4. keep the part of body of essay in proper

way and take pains in choosing of words, constructing sentences and building up paragraphs

5. Make the conclusion effective and satisfying.

6. Write in simple concise , clear , and natural style.

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