2. INTRODUCTION
• An essay is a formal and focused piece of writing. It is composed to
develops an argument or narrative based on evidence, analysis and
interpretation.
• The content and length of an essay depends on your level, subject of study,
and course requirements
• Its main purpose is to persuade readers about given topic with formal tone,
knowledge in it, arguments and logic.
3. STAGES IN THE ESSAY
To write an essay, there are three main stages:
1. Preparation: Decide on your topic, do your research, and create an essay outline.
2. Writing: Set out your argument in the introduction, develop it with evidence in the
main body, and wrap it up with a conclusion.
3. Revision: Check the content, organization, grammar, spelling, and formatting of your
essay.
Preparation Writing Revision
• Choose your essay topic
• Do your research
• Come up with a thesis
• Create an essay outline
• Write the introduction
• Write the main body,
organized into paragraphs
• Write the conclusion
• Evaluate the overall structure
• Check the content of the
essay
• Proofread for language errors
• Check for plagiarism
5. Narrative Essays
• Are written to narrate an event, or series of events. Narrative essays may be:
• historical stories or legends like: the reign of Akbar, the story of
(b) Biographies like life of Holy Prophet, or of Babar)
(c) Incidents like a street quarrel, a festival, a marriage
(d) an accident or natural disaster like a flood, a fire, a ship-wreck,
an earthquake
(e) a journey or voyage
(f) a story (real or imaginary)
6. Descriptive Essays
• A descriptive essay consists of a description of some place or thing. Like:
(a) animals, plants, minerals (such as the elephant, the pipal tree, coal)
(b) towns, countries, buildings, etc., (e.g., Mumbai, Italy, the Taj Mahal)
(c) aspects and phenomena of nature (volcanoes, the monsoon, sunlight)
(d) manufactured articles (such as motor-cars, steam-engines, silk, paper, etc.).
7. Expository Essays
• An expository (or explanatory) essay consists of an explanation of some subject.
(a) institutions, industries, occupations {e.g., parliament, the press)
(b) scientific topics (such as gravitation, evolution, astronomy,
(c) literary topics (such as the nature of poetry, prose styles, the genius of
Shakespeare, the novels of Scott)
8. Imaginative Essays
• In these essays the feelings and experiences are expressed.
• the writer places himself/herself into that position of which he has had no actual
experience. Like:
(a)If I were a king
(b)The autobiography of a horse
(c)The autobiography of a mobile phone
