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essay on what is essay(2000 words)

Answer 1

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal. Formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length," whereas the informal essay is characterized by "the personal element (self-revelation, individual tastes and experiences, confidential manner), humor, graceful style, rambling structure, unconventionality or novelty of theme," etc. The concept of an "essay" has been extended to other mediums beyond writing. A film essay is a movie that often incorporates documentary film making styles, and focuses more on the evolution of a theme or idea. A photographic essay covers a topic with a linked series of photographs that may have accompanying text or captions. An essay has been defined in a variety of ways. One definition is a "prose composition with a focused subject of discussion" in which essays fall. Aldous Huxley, a leading essayist, gives guidance on the subject. He notes that "the essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything", and adds that "by tradition, almost by definition, the essay is a short piece". Furthermore, Huxley argues that "essays belong to a literary species whose extreme variability can be studied most effectively within a three-poled frame of reference". These three poles (or worlds in which the essay may exist) are: The personal and the autobiographical: The essayists that feel most comfortable in this pole "write fragments of reflective autobiography and look at the world through the keyhole of anecdote and description". The objective, the factual, and the concrete-particular: The essayists that write from this pole "do not speak directly of themselves, but turn their attention outward to some literary or scientific or political theme. Their art consists on setting forth, passing judgement upon, and drawing general conclusions from the relevant data". The abstract-universal: In this pole "we find those essayists who do their work in the world of high abstractions", who are never personal and who seldom mention the particular facts of experience. Huxley adds that the most satisfying essays "...make the best not of one, not of two, but of all the three worlds in which it is possible for the essay to exist." The word essay derives from the French infinitive essayer, "to try" or "to attempt". In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing, and his essays grew out of his commonplacing. Inspired in particular by the works of Plutarch, a translation of whose Œuvres Morales (Moral works) into French had just been published by Jacques Amyot, Montaigne began to compose his essays in 1572; the first edition, entitled Essais, was published in two volumes in 1580. For the rest of his life he continued revising previously published essays and composing new ones. Francis Bacon's essays, published in book form in 1597, 1612, and 1625, were the first works in English that described themselves as essays. Ben Jonson first used the word essayist in English in 1609, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. These forms and styles are used by an array of authors, including university students and professional essayists. Cause and effect The defining features of a "cause and effect" essay are causal chains that connect from a cause to an effect, careful language, and chronological or emphatic order. A writer using this rhetorical method must consider the subject, determine the purpose, consider the audience, think critically about different causes or consequences, consider a thesis statement, arrange the parts, consider the language, and decide on a conclusion. Classification and division classification is the categorization of objects into a larger whole while division is the breaking of a larger whole into smaller parts. point.

Answer 2

ᴀɴ ᴇꜱꜱᴀʏ ɪꜱ ᴀɴ ᴇxᴛᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴡʀɪᴛɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴘʀᴇꜱᴇɴᴛꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛꜱ ᴀ ᴛʜᴇꜱɪꜱ ᴏʀ ᴘʀᴏᴘᴏꜱɪᴛɪᴏɴ. ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀᴅ ‘ᴇꜱꜱᴀʏ’ ᴅᴇʀɪᴠᴇꜱ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀᴛɪɴ ᴡᴏʀᴅ ‘ᴇxᴀɢɪᴜᴍ’, ᴍᴇᴀɴɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴇꜱᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ᴄᴀꜱᴇ.

ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡʀɪᴛᴇ ᴀɴ ᴇꜱꜱᴀʏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴄᴀꜱᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴀʟɪᴅɪᴛʏ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ᴘᴀʀᴛɪᴄᴜʟᴀʀ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴠɪᴇᴡ, ᴀɴᴀʟʏꜱɪꜱ, ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴘʀᴇᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴏʀ ꜱᴇᴛ ᴏꜰ ꜰᴀᴄᴛꜱ ᴏʀ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇᴅᴜʀᴇꜱ.

ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴍᴀɴʏ ᴛʏᴘᴇꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴇꜱꜱᴀʏꜱ…

   ᴀʀɢᴜᴍᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ,

   ᴅᴇꜱᴄʀɪᴘᴛɪᴠᴇ,

   ꜱʏɴᴏᴘᴛɪᴄ,

   ᴀɴᴀʟʏᴛɪᴄᴀʟ,

   ᴇxᴘʟᴏʀᴀᴛᴏʀʏ,

   ʀᴇᴠɪᴇᴡ,

 ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴏ ᴏɴ

… ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴏɴ ᴏʙᴊᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴘʀᴇꜱᴇɴᴛɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴅᴇꜰᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴛᴏᴘɪᴄ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ꜱᴛᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ.

ᴄᴏɴꜱᴇQᴜᴇɴᴛʟʏ, ᴇꜱꜱᴀʏꜱ ᴀʟʟ ʀᴇʟʏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴀʟɪᴅɪᴛʏ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴀᴄᴛꜱ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴɪᴄᴀᴛᴇ ʙᴜᴛ ᴀʟꜱᴏ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇʟᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴄʀɪᴛɪᴄᴀʟ ᴇᴠᴀʟᴜᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴏʀɢᴀɴɪꜱᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀᴇꜱᴇɴᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇꜱᴇ ꜰᴀᴄᴛꜱ.