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English writing and reading skills have a universal value since it is an international language. One should have a good knowledge of both written and spoken English to be able to communicate effectively in any country. Written English skills are closely associated with spoken English skills. If you have good written English skills, you will be able to express your views to the outside world effectively through your writing. Good written English skills will be useful for you in different situations.
Having excellent written English skill is very much essential... Read more...
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Many of us like essays. We like reading essays and also we have a special interest in writing essays. The word “essay” has been originated from the French word “essai” which means effort, attempt.
Many of us might have written essay on some other day. In school days many of us might have participated in essay writing competitions. Essay writing improves the usage of language. This makes us to develop innovative ideas. Essay writing makes people more familiar with the language; it keeps us close to the language. Essay writing is a platform where we can express our views on the topics. Essay makes creative thinking on the topic on which the essay is being written and also makes the writer to analyze the topic in all possible directions. You can write your own point of view on any topic that you might have heard, seen or read. You can write an essay with controversy of some other writers by having a reasonable controversy.
Essay denotes your way of thinking, your feelings, your personality and also your life position too. Many find it interest in writing essays, some express their ideas and opinions boldly and c... Read more...
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There may be times when you need to add or alter words in a quotation, so that it will make sense in the context of your essay. For example, here we rave added a character’s name to help the quotation make sense: Malcolm muggeridge said that ‘[Macmillan] exuded a flavor of mothballs’. Square brackets are used around the interpolated matter. You might also need to alter a quotation if you are using a quotation with a lower-case letter at the [outset, but want to use it to start a sentence:
(T]he lady’s not for turning’ is just one example of Margaret Thatcher’s striking use of literary allusions for political ends.
Square brackets show that material has been added or altered. As we have noted above, ellipsis marks (three stops) have the opposite function, indicating an omission from a quotation:
a man … is so in the way in the house. (Elizabeth Gaskell)
If you want to omit a line or several lines from a poem you are quoting, you put an ellipsis at the end of the previous line before the omission, as in this example from Donne:
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Most examiners make tremendous allowances for work done under pressure and don’t expect a perfect performance, but a student who can turn in a measured, controlled piece of writing always impresses in examinations. The same applies, curiously, to word-processed essays. These are usually very professional in appearance, but what matters is the weight of the argument and how that is executed from beginning to end.
But let’s look at how the advice applies in other areas. If you were studying politics, or taking a general studies paper, you might have to write an essay about the victory of the Labor Party in the 1997 General Election, and the humiliation of the Conservative Party in that election. In an unplanned essay, you might start by saying that Labor had been out of office for 18 years, then wander on to the part that Tony Blair played, perhaps touching on the divisions within the Conservative Party. But it would be a loose collection of Ideas in which you were looking for a shape and direction. It seems to make a lot more sense to establish some opening propositions, then to see what happened next, and finally ... Read more...
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Such a method seems to be readily applicable to a scientific experiment, where there is usually a set order for doing things, but is it going to have any relevance for an essay on, say, the life of Florence Nightingale? We think it is again a good idea to think in terms of ‘a rule of three’. The temptation in writing about someone’s life in a history essay might be just to produce an endless list on the lines of ‘she did this, then she did this, and then she did this’. But if we divide the core of the essay into three stages we start to impose a shape on the raw material; we begin to have an idea of the argument, of setting the issue up, pushing the issue along, and then seeing where we arrive. The essay immediately begins to acquire some shape and direction, and this is true even before we have considered what we are going to include in each section of the essay. In an essay on Florence Nightingale, we could follow the eight-paragraph format we described above. An introductory paragraph might give a very brief outline of her life. The first stage of the essay (paragraphs 2 and 3) could describe the con... Read more...
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Style starts with being aware of your reader. This is why we have stressed the importance of presenting your ideas in an orderly way in an essay, and why you should always be striving for correctness. You should never be prepared to tolerate sloppiness or laziness in the composition of your work. Every essay you write is the equivalent of a job interview. It is a performance where you have to put on your best clothes, if only for the day, and behave in a way that is designed to impress. You want to be seen at your best. Just as turning up in your most comfortable old clothes for a job interview would be inappropriate behavior, certain fussiness over making sure that sentences are well constructed and well presented is essential in an essay. In this way you will ensure that your writing fits in with the pattern of standard English, the norm in education, business and the professions. Your reader expects to be able to understand what you write, and also expects that you will be trying to communicate efficiently. None of these points, however, should be worrying, for, as we have stressed throughout, there are a very small number of rul... Read more...
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Far too many students have very little idea quite where they are heading in any paragraph of an essay, but the fact is that every paragraph can and should be tightly, and even self-consciously, organized. Just as an essay as a whole sets up an issue, deviances, and arrives somewhere, so each paragraph of an essay needs to locate itself, advance, and arrive somewhere new.
If you look back at the opening paragraph of a Thackeray essay in the last section you should be able to see that it conforms to this pattern. It actually consists of three sentences which fulfill these three functions. In a rather similar way, this opening paragraph of an essay on Mary Kinsley, a Victorian traveler and writer, and the problem of ‘place’ starts with a ‘topic’ sentence that locates the issue, then advances by elaborating on that, finally arriving somewhere new. We have marked (/) the three steps of the paragraph:
The life and works of Mary Kingsley illustrate the different relationship men and women often experience towards ‘place’. / For men, the image of home is likely to suggest security, confidenc... Read more...
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Can you see anything wrong with this paragraph?
The risk of damnation is made clear in Kyd’s “The Spanish Tragedy” by the use of a ghost from hell, called Revenge, who acts as a chorus to the play. This provides a formal framework which contrasts with the violent actions of the characters. There’s also something rather spooky about a ghost.
If you feel that the last sentence struck the wrong note, it is because the word ‘spooky’ is inappropriate. But why? Isn’t it a perfectly good word? It probably is, but the problem is that it’s an informal word, the kind of word that might be used in conversation, but which jars with the formal tone required in an essay. You might also feel that it is a rather lightweight word. Up until that point the writer has achieved a good level of analysis, but the final sentence unintentionally trivializes the subject For a moment the writer takes his/her eye off the topic and makes a rather vague, colloquial point. It is important in writing an essay to strive for a fairly formal tone. Contractions such as didn’t, wasn... Read more...
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