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WRITING AN essay

Essays as a genre of composition

An essay as a genre of essay actively invades school life. And in many universities, essays are offered as final or entrance examinations, and not only where the subject area is literature but also history and foreign languages. For a competent, interesting essay, it is necessary to observe certain rules and recommendations with which this memo will introduce you. The genre of essays implies creative freedom. All its charm is that it can be written on any topic and in any style, i.e. about anything and whatever, because an essay is your reflection on what you hear, read, viewed. In the foreground, the essay is the personality of the author, his thoughts, feelings, attitude to the world. This is the main installation of the composition. However, we must remember that despite the freedom of creativity, writing in the genre of essays is not easy at all, since you need to find an original idea (even on traditional material), a non-standard look at any problem.

What is an essay like a genre of literary work?

An essay is a prosaic composition of a small volume and free composition, expressing individual impressions and thoughts on a specific occasion or question and not claiming an exhaustive answer. This is a new, subjectively colored word about something that has a philosophical, historical, biographical, journalistic, literary, critical, popular science, or fictional character.

Essay style is different:

• imagery
• aphoristic
• paradoxical

For the transfer of personal perception, development of the world, the author of the essay

• attracted by numerous examples
• draws parallels
• picks up analogies
• uses all kinds of associations.

The essay is characterized by the use of numerous means of artistic expression:

• metaphors
• allegorical and parable images
• characters
• comparisons

An essay will look richer and more interesting if it contains:

• unpredictable findings
• unexpected turns
• interesting clutch

In terms of speech construction, an essay is a dynamic alternation of polemical statements, questions, installation of colloquial intonation and vocabulary.

Stages of writing an essay

If it’s hard for you to start writing an essay, then you can heed our advice. They may be useful to you in practice.

• Start writing an essay by analyzing the essence of the issue, try to make up your own opinion about it. The more you learn about the topic of an essay from books and articles, the more accurately you will be able to understand what is being discussed.
• Use various literature to find different opinions on your subject. So you can consider it in more detail. And most importantly, from different angles.
• It will also be useful to view additional literature. This is necessary for you to be able to find suitable examples and quotes for yourself, with the help of which you can confirm your point of view or critically analyze those author's positions that do not match yours.
• In the final part of your essay, you should formulate a general conclusion with which you could put a bright final point.

Writing an essay requires the student, first of all, a certain amount of perseverance, as well as the systematic work with additional materials. Also, when writing an essay on a philosophical topic, you will have to think carefully about the so-called eternal questions. It is worth noting that in this case, the essay can be represented by reflection on a specific topic. You can also reflect on the concrete dictum of a famous thinker. 

Fast Essay Writing Algorithm

Although, as we said earlier, the essay does not have a clear structure, in terms of content it is still divided into three parts: the introductory part, the main part, the final part. To write an essay quickly you need to know what exactly needs to be done, and most importantly, in what sequence. Especially for readers of our blog, we have compiled a simple, understandable algorithm that should make it easier for you to work on this task:

• Start writing work with an introduction. In it, you should introduce the reader to the problem that you decided to consider in your essay. In this case, a problem means a difficult practical or theoretical question, which requires a certain solution.
• Then comes the main part, which should contain an analysis of the topic of an essay or a specific utterance. In this part, you need to show how well you know this material, as well as how logically you can express your thoughts. It is the main part that will be able to show the teacher how correctly you understand the topic. You can start writing this part of the essay with a thesis, that is, with the position that you are going to prove. Next, you need to bring two or three arguments in favor of your thesis.
• Having finished the main part, you need to summarize everything written earlier. The conclusion should be short but at the same time capacious, as well as related to what was said earlier. In some situations, it is perfectly acceptable to express one's own opinion about the problem considered in the essay. It is worth noting that the author's opinion must be expressed carefully while avoiding excessive emotionality in their assessments.

Conclusions

I would like to say that to write an  English essay on philosophy quickly, you first need to know what it is and what parts it consists of. It is important to have an idea of ​​what you need to write in each of the parts. With this information, you can properly organize your work, spending literally from one to several days on it. When working on an essay, try to get acquainted with various information on your subject. So you can better understand the topic, and will also have a fairly broad idea of ​​a certain phenomenon.