What is an essay?
Have you really ever taken the time to think about what an essay is? Well, today you will have a chance to find out. An essay is a written composition on ANY subject. In my essay I am going to explain what an essay is, what are its parts, what does each part do, how you plan/write an essay and what are some different types of essays.
An essay has three parts, there is an introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction is the first paragraph in your essay. This part of the essay basically introduces your topic and explains what your are going to be speaking about. The ‘body’ is the part of the essay where you explain in farther detail about your topic. The very last part of an essay is the conclusion. A conclusion sums up the whole essay and ties it all together.
When planning out an essay think of it as if you were planning out a story. Just like when writing a story, in an essay you don’t jump to the first draft you start at square one. Square one is to ANALYZE: determine what kind of essay you are going to be doing, is it a explanation? Opinion? Comparing/contrasting? Or discussing? (etc). The next step is to BRAINSTORM: Brainstorming is a synonym for thinking of all the clever and witty ideas related to your topic. The final footstep before taking out your pen and paper is to CHOOSE. Choosing is primarily like narrowing down all your ideas and choosing the ones best suited for your topic.
Once you have finished all of those steps, it is time to get started on writing your essay. There are actually a lot of key points to writing an essay. Probably, one of the most important rules when writing an essay is to make sure you are only focusing on one topic per paragraph, otherwise your essay could become very sloppy and confusing. The next item to think about is choosing a topic sentence. A topic sentence is usually the first or second sentence in your essay explaining your main idea in your paragraph. After you have written your topic sentence, finish off the paragraph with other sentences to support or that are related to your topic sentence.
Your probably wondering why I took all this time to make a thought-out essay about essays, well, knowing how to write an essay is a very important skill. When you grow older you will have to write essays for schools, jobs and much, much more. By now I hope you know the basics of writing an essay and can apply these rules into your own life!
thank you,
Hana
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