The main contents of the chapter consist of the following: What is an outline? sentence outline, topic outline, purpose for using an outline, to help organize key ideas in writing an essay or research paper, to help summarize key ideas in reading, to help you develop subtopics.
Lecture Types of Essays Recap I What is an Outline? A Sentence outline B Topic Outline II Purpose for Using an Outline A To help organize key ideas in writing an essay or research paper B To help summarize key ideas in reading C To help you develop subtopics 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 o Pre-writing o Free-writing o Note keeping o Brain storming o Mind Mapping § Writing Stage § Re-writing What is an Essay? • Essays can be either: o Long or Short o Serious or Humorous o Formal or Informal o Can describe your opinions or be a synopsis of expert 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) How to Write an Essay A successful essay should meet a number of other criteria Consider these points to perfect your essay 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 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; Definition Essay A definitio 10 Compare/Contrast Essay The compare/co ntrast essay 11 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 12 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; 13 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 14 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; 15 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; 16 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; 17 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 18 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: 19 Common methods of beginning: Cohesion and Coherence • The introducti 20 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 The conclusion brings the reader back to the purpose of the essay and draws all the points together before making a final 21 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 22 References • http://academichelp.net/academic-assignment 23 ... 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. .. An essay consists of three major parts: Introduction Main body Conclusion Writing Process • Pre -writing Stage o Pre -writing o Free -writing o Note keeping o Brain storming o Mind Mapping § Writing. .. an Essay) • Deliver an argument (The Case Against Essay Questions) How to Write an Essay A successful essay should meet a number of other criteria Consider these points to perfect your essay Types