Tuesday, March 20, 2012

How to Write an Essay

Every time a writer creates an essay there are specific formats, and processes that are used in order to get not only the information of the essay out, but to also get out the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of the writer, so that the reader can see through the writer's perspective. Every essay format has classification and division, which helps to structure the essay by first introducing the topic at hand, then dividing that topic into sub points which become the body of the essay. The sub points are then elaborated on and can be either compared or contrasted to bring the points together, or set them apart through various descriptions. When the writer elaborates on the sub points he or she also uses writing aids such as visual rhetoric, visual gazing, and cause and effect to help build the essay. The use of visual rhetoric helps with the descriptions of certain points by describing the taste, touch, smell, feel, and sounds of the item being discussed. The use of Visual Gazing allows the writer to connect and  appeal to the reader's feelings, and emotions through familiarity of family, travels, cultures, consumer appeal, and national familiarity. The writer also uses cause and effect to help move the essay along in a cognitive chronological format. This gives the essay a nice flow that is smooth and neat like a road map that takes the reader from point A to point B without any detours. Finally the essay is ended with  a conclusion that summarizes the basis and strengths of the essay to reiterate the main idea, and convey the thoughts of the writer to a simple ending.

1 comment:

  1. Well done. You put all the information in there with out making it sound like an encyclopedia. it was a good idea to bold those few words so the reader saw the organization.

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