The Many Facets Of Essay Writing
You read it on short articles posted on the Internet, you read it in newspaper and magazine columns, you often write one on your personal journal entries or blogs, and you surely have written one during your college days. These are the many facets of essay writing. Basically, and essay is a short piece of work written based on the writer's point of view. It can be about anything under the sun and may take the form of a criticism about a piece of work; a literary essay, an observation about the going-on's from the writer's perspective; a personal reflection, or a collection of thoughts about a particular topic. No matter which form it takes or which genre it discusses, the main idea is for the essay writing to present the idea, story or observation in a well-structured manner.
In essay writing, there should be a smooth flow of ideas. More importantly, it should reflect the thought of the author in such a way that will prove interesting to the readers. Thus, readability is the key in coming up with a successful piece of essay writing. Since an essay is a non-fiction type of written material, it does not involve characters or dialogues. With essay writing, the key is to be as descriptive as possible but still work around a central theme or a main idea. Technically, an essay needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end to achieve readability and help build up the interest of the readers.
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In school, for example, if you are asked to write an essay about a play that you have seen - what you will do is take notes while you are watching the play so that you can remember the names of the characters and remember the main plot, as well as the twists and highlights of the story. Basically, your essay writing will be a summary of what you have seen, interspersed with your own personal views about the way that the play has ran. You would most probably follow the basic flow where you have an introduction, a body and a conclusion - so you would have a three to five paragraph essay. As a whole, the product of the essay writing activity based on your school play should be summed up in one general question, like "What have you learned from the play?"
One of the most interesting points to be raised about essay writing is that there should be a completeness and a wholeness about the piece of work. It should reflect, in its entirety, the author's point of view without missing out on the finer details which will give the reader an insight into what the author really thinks and how he or she perceives the topic that is being written about All in all, essay writing should be an fascinating reflection of the mood, heart, and thinking of the author for the purpose of describing, narrating, persuading or arguing a point about the general theme of the essay.
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