What exactly is an Essay?

Classify

• Informal Essay
  You can easily guess the essence of informal essay. It involves informal matters that are somehow relevant only to the writer, the reader and the subject. It may be given as an extra-curriculum assignment by a psychologist to evaluate some of the traits of the student; or by a teacher to determine the final grade with the help of this type of an assignment.  Read More

• Compare and Contrast Essay
  A compare and contrast essay provides a person who reads with a thorough analysis of the issue you were given as a topic. Thus your job is to evaluate the facts or any other matters and discover similarities or distinctions.  Read More

• Research Paper
  The research type of paper mainly teaches the author to work with the great load of information. The key points to keep in mind when writing research paper are the following: You have to find the relevant text to the studied subject and evaluate this information.  Read More

• Expository Essay
   An expository essay is a kind of a project that is intended to determine, describe and explain the subject you choose for a paper. IT is probably the most common types of essays required for all academic levels.  Read More

• Persuasive Essay
  Persuasive essay writing is all about making others think the way you do. This type of essays is supposed to present your own views on a particular issue backed up by details and facts. In order to write a good persuasive essay you need to have the following parts.   Read More

• Explanation Essay
  The primary goal of an explanation essay is to clarify the issue of the research, describe it and disclose the core of the matter in a brief and rational manner. In order to make the writer’s work more productive one must apply the following questions to your thesis statemen.   Read More

• Descriptive Essay
  This type of essay is represented by a written task describing the case to the reader so that it becomes clear to them. The case of the essay can be a place, a person, a famous building or a any generic object.    Read More

• Review
  Reviews are generally referred to as the short descriptions of literary pieces, motion pictures, theatrical plays, TV programs and such. They are written in order to enlighten readers about news in different cultural areas and to give them recommendations, opinions and suggestions about movie, books, exhibitions, etc.     Read More

• Classification Essay
  Classification essay is a kind of paper that aims at classifying material or evaluating it under various categories. Classification type of essay is usually a combination of a few other kinds of essay.     Read More

• Evaluation Essay
  The main goal and intent of the evaluation essay to provide your opinion on the book, article or any other material you have seen or read. You can also criticize the object of your essay in case you totally disagree or dislike mentioned book/play.   Read More

• Books and Articles 
  When studying in college and graduate schools students are challenged in many ways. You do not only record your ideas in an ordinary composition class but you are required to deeply investigate and examine some matters taught at school.   Read More

• Using the World Wide Web
  These days humanity can hardly imagine that Internet has not always been a part of our everyday life. We cannot comprehend the possibility of doing research for a school project without this almighty machine.    Read More

• Journals, Newspapers, Magazines
  Such sources as journals, newspaper and magazines are effective tools for improving your writing and adding fresh information to your research paper. Newspapers are especially great in providing latest news and helping to prove a point, argue a statement or simply make your writing more sophisticated.     Read More

• Doing Research and Presenting Evidence
  Writing an essay is not a simple process of putting your thoughts on paper, major research has to be completed before anything is put down as part of the paper. If you want your essay to be an effective and convincing piece of writing you need to develop a certain strategy.   Read More

• Evaluating Your Sources – Online Versus Publishing
  In the modern world huge volumes of information attack us everywhere. Finding relevant information when you need it becomes more and more complex task.   Read More

Organize

• Draft Draft is one of the most important steps in your writing process. Any type of paper starts with draft and only after every possible idea is included in the rough draft you can move on to the next level. Draft is a sort of sketch of your future essay which can gather all thoughts and ideas relevant or even irrelevant to your topic.    Read More

• Outline Outline is wonderful tool in composing a good essay or paper of any kind. It is your guide showing you in which direction you should proceed with your writing. Many time writers get lost in their thoughts and forget the initial point and outline helps them find the way back to the “main road”, keeping your thesis in sight.   Read More

• Thesis Statement Thesis is the main point of your paper and the reason you are writing a particular essay. It should answer a couple of questions, such as: “What is the subject matter of the essay?   Read More

• Methods of the Outline There are a number of methods to write a helpful outline for your essay. These are the most widely used and easy to remember outline techniques: Mind-mapping, traditional, and the box.   Read More

• Essay Format Styles When writing papers or essays you are most likely to use other sources other than your own ideas. Every time you want to use information taken from another source, you must acknowledge the author. Sometimes you are not directly quoting from the book or an article, however material that helped you to write your essay was written by someone else thus needs to be recognized in a citation.   Read More

• Academic STYLE- Clear Style Well organized and logical writing does not come easily and no one can learn writing like that overnight. Clearly one has to do it systematically, constantly practicing in improving your skills.    Read More

• Types of Modern Styles-MLA, Harvard, APA, Turabian, Chicago This page is introducing a few most common citation styles used for writing research papers and essays.    Read More

 

Structure

• Introduction Introduction of the paper is your way and chance to get the readers interested in what you have to say. It serves as a catching tool as well as a short insight into what they will discover later in your paper.   Read More

• Structure of Introduction  A well organized writer knows that the most genius ideas put in random sentences will never reach a reader’s mind in the form it was supposed to. You need a structure. Structured introduction will cause a desire to read further and discover new information that the paper offers.   Read More

• Length of Introduction The entire purpose of the introduction is to give some basic facts about the rest of the paper to the reader. Please be reminded that it should not be a lengthy and boring paragraph full of statements and ideas.   Read More

• Body  The main body of the essay is supposed to describe your main idea. For the reader to believe that it is a trusted piece of information you need to use relevant facts and evidence.    Read More

• Supporting Paragraph  Supporting paragraph is the essence of your essay; it contains the key to explaining your thesis. It presents information you have found while doing your research and contains evidence of your idea’s worth.   Read More

• Connection of the Paragraphs A couple of well written paragraphs is not enough to constitute a well written solid essay. Separate paragraphs have to be connected to each other to form a logical chain of thought in order for the reader to understand the main idea and supporting evidence of the paper.   Read More

• Conclusion  The main task of the concluding paragraph is to sum up all the major ideas presented in the body of the essay therefore leading the reader to believe that your writing is reliable and legit overall.   Read More

• Bibliography  In composing a research paper or a simple 5 paragraph essay you use outside sources all of which have to be recorded accordingly to a required standard. The list of all your sources is called bibliography and is presented in the end on your essay on a separate piece of paper.   Read More

Present

• Proofreading  Proofreading is not a mere act of making sure there are no visible grammar or spelling mistakes. Your essay should be an easy readable logically connected sequence of sentences. Being an objective and judging reader is a key to successfully proofread your own writing.    Read More

• Intended Reader In a dialogue with any given person you will have to think about your responses in terms of that person’s frame of reference. The same approach is used in composing any essay or research paper.   Read More

• Presentation Great speaking skills, informative and witty paper, new and interesting facts- these are qualities of a successful public speaker. One more thing however is as important as all of the mentioned above. It is speaker’s appearance.    Read More

• Title Page  Title page is a face of your entire work. Such a huge responsibility is a blessing and a curse at the same time. You must make you title page error-free, pleasant looking and without any unnecessary objects on it. As a writer you need to remember that people often judge the book by its cover therefore you have to scrupulously check your title page before submitting your essay.   Read More