What is an essay?

What is an essay?

By: Adi Rosenkrantz 6B

An essay is a written composition on any topic. There are many different kinds of essays which I’m going to tell you about in this essay. I also will be telling you about how you plan and write essay. Also what the parts of an essay are, and what are they used for.

The parts on an essay are the introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction is the opening paragraph. It tells us what the rest on the essay is going to be about, and the main idea. The body part is a bunch of paragraphs that discuss, explain, tell your opinion, and compare. They each have a topic sentence about the sub-subjects the paragraph is about. The conclusion raps up the essay. There is no new information in it, and it is just reviewing what your essay was about.

There are a few simple and useful ways to plan an essay. You can analyze your topic. For example you can do more research about your topic. Also brainstorming is an excellent way to get more ideas. If you run out ideas you should always brainstorm with friends, it will help. When you are done brainstorming and analyzing you need you choose the best ideas.

There are four different kinds of essays. They are discuss, example, opinion, and compare. In a discussion essay, you’d discuss within the essay. In an example essay you’d give examples of the subject. Let’s say my subject was electricity I would give an example of the kids of electricity and in what ways we use them. In an opinion paragraph you’d say yours and others opinion. In a comparison essay you’d compare two subjects. Let’s say you had to write an essay about Japanese and Canadian society, you would use a comparison essay to compare the two subjects.