What is an Essay?Essay is a specific form of writing that allows the essay writer to express his personal and valid point of view about the topic which is being discussed in that piece of write up. Essays are of many types such as analytical or descriptive essays, narrative and critical essays, argumentative essays, process essays, custom essays, cause and effect relating essays, compare and contrast essays, persuasive essays and other types of essays. I will share some of the typical essays of different types while blogging in future on this blog.Before writing an essay, it is important to understand the essential elements of an essay which are the focus of the essay, its content, and the proper organization or flow of the content. Once you gain command over these three major elements of an essay, you will find it pretty easy to write an essay.The Focus of an EssayThe focus is the beginning of an essay which outlines the content discussed while offering a brief and attractive introduction of the topic and content of the essay to its reader. The Focus of a well written essay outlines and answers the following queries:
- What is the goal of the writer which he is trying to achieve through this essay, how efficiently he succeeded in explaining the purpose of his essay through the content, has the writer communicated well while writing the essay?
- Is the essay an academic project? If it is, how does the writer justify the authenticity of the essay?
- Are the goals of the essay have been discussed inconsequently or with limits, or have the writer exaggerated the issue?
- Is the essay able to fulfil the expected requirements of the reader? Will the reader enrich himself with valid and important information about the issue after reading the essay?
- Is the essay succeeding in supporting the purpose it was started with? How does the essay accomplish the obligations and evidences that were made in Focus to explain the purpose of the essay?
- Is the essay contains enough evidences, supporting details, references and approved data to validate and rationalize the most important explanations and generalizations of the main issues of the essay?
- What external references, details, evidences or counter evidences and further reading may offer more strength and validity to the essay?
- Does the essay have gone wayward at some points where some content have been offered which is totally irrelevant to the major purposes and issues of the essay for which it was written?
- Have the writer tested the used strategy while summarizing or outlining the essay?
- Does the flow or presentation of content succeed in rationally supporting major purposes of the essay throughout the essay from start to end?
- Have the writer used an appropriate strategy to organize the essay so that it may simplify the content and does it conveys the message of the essay clearly to its readers?
