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Essay Writing. Lecture 17. Recap. What is a Paragraph? Paragraph structure How to write a well organized paragraph? Examples. What is an Essay?. An essay is an organized collection of your thoughts on a particular topic. An essay consists of three major parts: Introduction
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Essay Writing Lecture 17
Recap • What is a Paragraph? • Paragraph structure • How to write a well organized paragraph? • Examples
What is an Essay? • An essay is an organized collection of your thoughts on a particular topic. • An essay consists of three major parts: • Introduction • Main body • Conclusion
Writing Process • Pre-writing Stage • Pre-writing • Free-writing • Note keeping • Brain storming • Mind Mapping • Writing Stage • Re-writing
What is an Essay? • Essays can be either: • Long or Short • Serious or Humorous • Formal or Informal • Can describe your opinions or be a synopsis of expert opinions.
What is an Essay? Writers use essays to: • Describe or define a subject (What is an Essay?) • Compare related items in a subject (The Difference Between Apples and Oranges) • Show cause and effect (If You Write It, They Will Read) • Write a narrative (My Summer Vacation) • Explain a process (How to Write an Essay) • Deliver an argument (The Case Against Essay Questions) • Critique (My Least Favorite Movie)
How to write an Essay?
how to write an essay? • An essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. • E.g. You may be writing an essay to argue for a particular point of view or to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. • Either way, your essay will have the same basic format. • If you follow a few simple steps, you will find that the essay almost writes itself. You will be responsible only for supplying ideas, which are the important part of the essay anyway. Don't let the thought of putting pen to paper daunt you. Get started!
Essay Format These simple steps will guide you through the essay writing process: • Decide on your topic. • Prepare an outline or diagram of your ideas. • Write your thesis statement. • Write the body. • Write the main points. • Write the subpoints. • Elaborate on the subpoints. • Write the introduction. • Write the conclusion. • Add the finishing touches.
Choosing a Topic You may have no choice as to your topic. If this is the case, you still may not be ready to jump to the next step. Think about the type of paper you are expected to produce. Should it be a general overview, or a specific analysis of the topic? If it should be an overview, then you are probably ready to move to the next step. If it should be a specific analysis, make sure your topic is fairly specific. If it is too general, you must choose a narrower subtopic to discuss. For example, the topic "KENYA" is a general one. If your objective is to write an overview, this topic is suitable. If your objective is to write a specific analysis, this topic is too general. You must narrow it to something like "Politics in Kenya" or "Kenya's Culture”. Once you have determined that your topic will be suitable, you can move on.
Organizing Your Ideas
Writing Your Outline • Begin your outline by writing your topic at the top of the page. • Next, write the Roman numerals I, II, and III, on left side of the page. • Next to each Roman numeral, write the main ideas that you have about your topic, or the main points that you want to make. • If you are trying to persuade, you want to write your best arguments. • If you are trying to explain a process, you want to write the steps that should be followed. • If you are trying to inform, you want to write the major categories into which your information can be divided. • Under each Roman numeral, write A, B, and C down the left side of the page. • Next to each letter, write the facts or information that support that main idea. • When you have finished, you have the basic structure for your essay and are ready to continue.
Composing a Thesis Statement • The thesis statement tells the reader what the essay will be about, and what point you, the author, will be making. • You know what the essay will be about. • That was your topic. • Now you must look at your outline or diagram and decide what point you will be making. • What do the main ideas and supporting ideas that you listed say about your topic?
Writing the Body Paragraphs • The topic you have chosen must now be: • explained • described, or • argued. • Each main idea that you wrote down in your diagram or outline will become one of the body paragraphs. • If you had three or four main ideas, you will have three or four body paragraphs. • Each body paragraph will have the same basic structure of writing a paragraph
Write the Introduction and Conclusion Your essay lacks only two paragraphs now: the introduction and the conclusion. These paragraphs will give the reader a point of entry to and a point of exit from your essay. Don't stop just yet! One more step remains before your essay is truly finished.
Conclusion • The conclusion brings closure to the reader, summing up your points or providing a final perspective on your topic. All the conclusion needs is three or four strong sentences which do not need to follow any set formula. Simply review the main points (being careful not to restate them exactly) or briefly describe your feelings about the topic. Even an anecdote can end your essay in a useful way. The introduction and conclusion complete the paragraphs of your essay.
Add the Finishing Touches • You have now completed all of the paragraphs of your essay. • Before you can consider this a finished product, however, you must give some thought to the formatting of your paper. • Check the order of your paragraphs. • Check the instructions for the assignment. • Check your writing.
Once you have checked your work and perfected your formatting,your essay is finished.Congratulations!
Types of Essays There are many different kinds of essays. The following are a some of the most common ones: • Descriptive Essay • Definition Essay • Compare and Contrast Essay • Cause and Effect Essay • Narrative Essay • Argumentative Essay • Critical Essay • Evaluation Essay • Analysis Essay • Reflective Essay • Expository Essay
Descriptive Essay The descriptive essay provides details about how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, makes one feel, or sounds. It can also describe what something is, or how something happened. These essays generally use a lot of sensory details. The essay could be a list-like description that provides point by point details. Examples:A descriptive essay could describe . . . * a tree in my backyard; * a visit to the children's ward of a hospital;
2. Definition Essay A definition essay attempts to define a specific term. It could try to pin down the meaning of a specific word, or define an abstract concept. Examples:A definition essay may try and define . . . * the meaning of an abstract concept, like love; * the true meaning and importance of honesty; * how the meaning of family goes deeper than just your blood relatives.
Compare/Contrast Essay The compare/contrast essay discusses the similarities and differences between two things, people, concepts, places, etc. • A comparison essay usually discusses the similarities between two things • the contrast essay discusses the differences. Examples: A compare/contrast essay may discuss … * the likenesses and differences between two places, like New York City and Los Angeles; * the similarities and differences between two religions, like Christianity and Islam; * two people, like my brother and myself
Cause/Effect Essay The cause/effect essay explains why or how some event happened, and what resulted from the event. • A cause essay usually discusses the reasons why something happened • An effect essay discusses what happens after a specific event or circumstance. Examples: A cause/effect essay may explain . . . * why a volcano erupts, and what happens afterwards;
Narrative Essay The narrative essay tells a story. It can also be called a "short story." • Conversational in style • Tells of a personal experience Examples:A narrative essay could tell of ... * my brother's and my fishing trips; * a boring trip to the grocery store; * my near-death experience at the beach.
Argumentative Essay An argumentative essay is one that attempts to persuade the reader to the writer's point of view. The writer can either be serious or funny, but always tries to convince the reader of the validity of his or her opinion. Examples: An argumentative essay may persuade a reader that . . . * he or she should use public transportation instead of driving * cats are better than dogs
Critical Essay A critical essay analyzes the strengths, weaknesses and methods of someone else's work. A critical essay can be written about another essay, story, book, poem, movie, or work of art. Examples: A critical essay may analyze . . . * how Shakespeare presents the character, Hamlet, in his play, Hamlet; * the strengths and weaknesses of the movie, Bol; * the use of color in Monet's painting, Sunflowers.
Evaluation Essay • Each day we face various facts and scenes, and to act adequately we need to develop our assessment of them. • Writing an evaluation essay is a good way to size up a certain item, phenomenon, entity, or any other object. Examples: • a vacation spot; • a new restaurant; • an educational website;
Reflective Essay • In reflective essay, you express your thoughts and emotions about certain events or phenomena. • Writing this type of essay is good training to sharpen your critical thinking skills, as well as your ability to develop and express opinions on a particular topic. Examples: • a trip to an exotic place; • a book that you have recently read;
Analysis Essay • An analysis essay assumes that you break a larger subject into subcategories • then examine each subcategory to form an opinion about the whole • explain how each subcategory is interrelated and come up with your own conclusions Examples: • Economic crisis and the rate of unemployment; • Replacing School Textbooks With Laptops
Expository Essay • They are pieces of scholarly writing which describe or examine a process of some kind in a comprehensive way: • analyze a concept • describe and explore a written work or an event; • explain detailed instructions or a description of a method or procedure Examples: • The Influences of Culture and Environment • The Internet and Society
Common methods of beginning: Cohesion and Coherence • The introduction and the conclusion, although very important, are often relatively short • The bulk of an essay, both in form and substance, is contained in the main body
The introduction is intended to lead the reader into the topic and clarify what the essay will specifically deal with; • usually consists of one paragraph • the amount of background information the context requires • Introduction will contain a key sentence (or, if necessary, more than one). • The main body deals with the major ideas that support the statement; • Each main idea is presented in a separate paragraph • developed with supporting ideas in the form of explanations, definitions, or similar, and illustrated with examples where appropriate or necessary. 3. The conclusion brings the reader back to the purpose of the essay and draws all the points together before making a final comment on the result of the discussion.
Coherence and Cohesion Ultimately an essay will show a progression from a general level (in the introduction) down to the specific (the statement and body) and back up to the general level again(conclusion). The reader will be expecting this so it gives your essay a sense of completion. In other words, the essay must have Coherence and Cohesion • Coherence means connecting your ideas together in a logical way, depending on the type of essay you are writing. • Cohesion means using pronouns, conjunctions etc. to tie the ideas in your essay together.
Scratching outline for an Essay
What is an Outline? • An outline is a way of organizing key ideas • An outline helps to set up an essay • An outline is a tool to help revise an essay
What is it? • An outline is a general plan of the material that is to be presented on a paper. • The outline shows the order of the various topics, the relative importance of each, and the relationship between the various parts.
Types of Outlines Topic outline Sentence outline the headings are given in single words or brief phrases all the headings are expressed in complete sentences
Rules for Outlining 1. Subdivide topics by a system of numbers and letters, followed by a period. Example: I. A. B. 1. 2. a. b. II. A. B.
Rules for Outlining 2. Each heading and subheading must have at least two parts. 3. Headings for parts of the paper such as, Introduction and Conclusion, should not be used. 4. Be consistent. Do not mix up the two types of outlines. Use either whole sentences of brief phrases, but not both.
Sentence Outline“Choices in College and After”
Thesis:The decisions I have to make in choosing college courses, depend on larger questions I am beginning to ask myself about my life’s work. I. I have two decisions to make with respect to choosing college courses in the immediate future. A. One is whether to select a course in art history or in chemistry. 1. One time in my life, I planned to be a chemical engineer professionally. 2. On the other hand, I enjoy art and plan to travel and see more of it. B. The second decision is whether to continue a third year of French beyond the basic college requirement. 1. French might be useful both in engineering and travel. 2. Furthermore, I am eager to read good books which are written in French. 3. How necessary are these considerations in the light of other courses I might take instead? II. My problem can be put in the form of a dilemma involving larger questions about my whole future. A. On the one hand I want to hold a highly-trained position in a money-making profession. B. On the other hand I want to lead a certain kind of life, with capacities for values not connected with the making of money. III. I will have to make a decision balancing the conflicting needs I have described. A. I will hold open the professional possibilities by selecting chemistry. B. I will improve and solidify what cultural proficiency in another language I have already gained, by electing French.
Topic Outline “Choices in College and After”
Thesis: The decisions I have to make in choosing college courses, depend on larger questions I am beginning to ask myself about my life’s work. I. Two decisions described A. Art history or chemistry 1. Professional considerations 2. Personal considerations B. A third year of French? 1. Practical advantages of knowing a foreign language 2. Intellectual advantages 3. The issue of necessity II. Definition of the problem A. Decisions about occupation B. Decisions about a kind of life to lead III. Temporary resolution of the problem A. To hold open a professional possibility: chemistry B. To take advantage of cultural gains already made: French
So How to Make and Use an Essay Outline??? • An essay outline is probably the most important friend you will have while writing your essay. • It is the skeleton of your ideas. • It is the framework by which you will write a killer essay. And frankly, it is difficult to write one without an outline.
When you begin writing an essay outline, use the following model as a guide:I. INTRODUCTION:Thesis:_____________________________________________________.II. BODY PARAGRAPH 1:Opening Sentence:___________________________________________.Detail 1:____________________________________________________.Detail 2:____________________________________________________.Detail 3:____________________________________________________.III. BODY PARAGRAPH II:Transition/Opening Sentence:__________________________________.Detail 1:____________________________________________________.Detail 2:____________________________________________________.Detail 3:____________________________________________________.IV. BODY PARAGRAPH III:Transition/Opening Sentence:__________________________________.Detail 1:____________________________________________________.Detail 2:____________________________________________________.Detail 3:____________________________________________________.V. BODY PARAGRAPH IV:Transition/Opening Sentence:__________________________________.Detail 1:____________________________________________________.Detail 2:____________________________________________________.Detail 3:____________________________________________________.VI. CONCLUSION:Reconfirmed Thesis:_________________________________________.
How does it do that? An Outline Organizes The Major Parts Of Your Essay: • Thesis Statement- The sentence that tells your reader your ultimate point and what they should expect. • Major Points- The facts that you are using to prove your main point. • Supporting Details- The examples, facts, quotations, etc. • Transitions- The statement or information you will use to transition form one major point to the next. • Concluding Thoughts- Any thoughts that you would like to include at the close of your paper to wrap things up and tie it all together. NEVER INCLUDE NEW FACTS OR INFORMATION IN YOUR CONCLUSION!
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