How to write an essay

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HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY
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The very first thing you should do is to
understand what an essay is?
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Essay is an organized collection of YOUR IDEAS
about literary texts nicely written and
professionally presented.
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What do we mean by saying nicely written?
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Essay must be well organized and presented in a
way that the reader finds easy to follow.
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What is the purpose of an essay?
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It shows your ability to talk, to think, and to
write. This is where you learn to write
professionally.
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How to do it?
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Organize and make the structure clearly visible
that reader can easily follow and understand the
way of your thoughts
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Make in the way that can be adduced in the form
of quotations to back up your arguments.
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Make it look tidy!
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Where to start?
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The very first task is collecting material
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How to collect material?
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Firstly they are divided into two sources.
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Primary sources are literary texts the actual
material that you work on.
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Secondary sources are works of criticism.
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RememberIt is always better to read an original
text and refer to it than to read and refer to a
critic.
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Why to use critics then?
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The answer is to be disagreed with
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Do not re-invent the wheel. It was already done
years ago.
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Remember never quote a critic just to agree with
him or her!
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Develop your ideas relaying on thoughts of
critic.
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Books are not usually much use.You gain no
special merit points for having read them,
because so has everyone else.
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Use articles!They are full of interesting,
original, and up-to-date ideas about literary
texts, that, maybe, your examiner won't even have
heard.
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Use the Web!It's easily available, full of
material, and answers to every question.
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When you have found all the materials and you are
going to read them, follow next rules
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Always make notes.
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Write only one idea per page.
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File and rewrite the notes so you can find them
again
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Make a bibliography.
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Every single book and article you read should be
in this list!
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In a year or two you will say thanks to this
booklist.
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Now you have done all the preparations.
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Great! Grab a cookie!
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What to do next?
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Write the essay.Easy and painlessly because
you've done most of the thinking already.
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How should an essay look like?
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The plan you construct should be in the form of
an indented outline.
Main heading subheading 1 notes on
subheading 1
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The paragraph should

• be at least a ? to half a page
• have a topic sentence, near the beginning

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An essay should be 1500-2000 words long.
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Now you are ready for presentation.
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And remember
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YOUR IDEAS about literary texts are what
matters.And
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Always put the reader first.
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