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Essay writing is a daunting affair for most working students today.
Read the essay prompt carefully and understand the question.
Pick a topic. .
Create an outline.
Sample outline:
Write your essay: Create a thesis statement.
Write the introductory paragraph.
write the body paragraphs
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First essays need a new name, something like “Magnificent Thoughts That Come Out of People’s Heads, Including Mine”! People hear “essay” and they groan. But some of the most remarkable writing out there is in the form of essays. They are like journals on steroids and come in four delicious major flavored (narration, exposition, description and argument/persuasion).
Now that your mindset might be changing a bit about the stodgy old essay…
READ some great ones. John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Joan Didion and more. So, Gourmet Magazine published this essay on the Maine Lobster Festival in 2004. You think that combination is going to be all about the yummy goings-on at the Fest, right? No, David Foster Wallace writes an essay called, “Consider the Lobster.” You might imagine where THAT’S going to go! Read Jane Goodall talking about dung beetles or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Both of those will hit you square in “the feels.”
Need some nice simple examples? Do an online search. I know YourDictionary dot com has some brief excerpts from different types of essays. Purdue University has an Online Writing Lab that is helpful. ReadWriteThink dot org has nice graphics that spell out differences among the essay types.
Now that you have some resources…
ANALYZE what makes an essay good. They grab your attention. They tell you in the first paragraph what they are about. They hold your interest. Note what parts of the essay fit the structure of which type of essay. Are they trying to get you to see their point of view? Make you understand the day they stopped taking it from a bully? Explain why a nation seceded from another nation? Make you experience fall in Yosemite National Park?
Ooh, yeah, write down your answers!
How did they hold your attention? What was their final point? Yeah! write that down, too. Just a few notes, I’m certainly not going to read and grade those. Some of the stuff you’ll be reading is just plain inspiring, so you need to keep your head with those notes to understand how they made your heart leap to the sky. And now…
WRITE, Peter, Write! (Apologies to F. Gump). You’ll be practicing, but with direction, understanding the organization of the various essay types and how they are applied. You can gets lots of essay writing prompts via online searches, from library books, or your own head/observations/passions. You can jot a little outline before you begin to help you keep your thoughts flowing, like:
Why Italian Food Is Better Than Chinese Food
Attention Getter
Thesis/Assertion
Three points to prove my point
Conclusion
Now, go write an essay that is the OPPOSITE of what you just wrote.
Then write a narrative essay about the day you realized you (fill in the blank).
And on it goes. Focus on a type, then switch to another, or do all four and then repeat the round. Whichever works for you.
Now that your mindset might be changing a bit about the stodgy old essay…
READ some great ones. John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Joan Didion and more. So, Gourmet Magazine published this essay on the Maine Lobster Festival in 2004. You think that combination is going to be all about the yummy goings-on at the Fest, right? No, David Foster Wallace writes an essay called, “Consider the Lobster.” You might imagine where THAT’S going to go! Read Jane Goodall talking about dung beetles or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Both of those will hit you square in “the feels.”
Need some nice simple examples? Do an online search. I know YourDictionary dot com has some brief excerpts from different types of essays. Purdue University has an Online Writing Lab that is helpful. ReadWriteThink dot org has nice graphics that spell out differences among the essay types.
Now that you have some resources…
ANALYZE what makes an essay good. They grab your attention. They tell you in the first paragraph what they are about. They hold your interest. Note what parts of the essay fit the structure of which type of essay. Are they trying to get you to see their point of view? Make you understand the day they stopped taking it from a bully? Explain why a nation seceded from another nation? Make you experience fall in Yosemite National Park?
Ooh, yeah, write down your answers!
How did they hold your attention? What was their final point? Yeah! write that down, too. Just a few notes, I’m certainly not going to read and grade those. Some of the stuff you’ll be reading is just plain inspiring, so you need to keep your head with those notes to understand how they made your heart leap to the sky. And now…
WRITE, Peter, Write! (Apologies to F. Gump). You’ll be practicing, but with direction, understanding the organization of the various essay types and how they are applied. You can gets lots of essay writing prompts via online searches, from library books, or your own head/observations/passions. You can jot a little outline before you begin to help you keep your thoughts flowing, like:
Why Italian Food Is Better Than Chinese Food
Attention Getter
Thesis/Assertion
Three points to prove my point
Conclusion
Now, go write an essay that is the OPPOSITE of what you just wrote.
Then write a narrative essay about the day you realized you (fill in the blank).
And on it goes. Focus on a type, then switch to another, or do all four and then repeat the round. Whichever works for you.
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