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HINTS ON ESSAY-WRITING : HINTS ON ESSAY-WRITING
Slide 3 : One of the chief difficulties young people feel in essay writing is lack of matter.They do not easily find anything to say about a subject.But it may be remedied by reading,and by training the power of observation. general preparation
Let us see the three points of general preparation : Let us see the three points of general preparation Reading
If you want to write good essays you must acquire a love of reading-not simply reading stories for amusement, but reading good books of history,travel,biographyand science.Fill your mind with fine thoughts and accurate information.
Slide 5 : Observation
But all knowledge does not come from books.We may learn much from the life around us.One should keep our eyes and ears open,and learn from our own experience.It is surprising what a lot may be learnt from personal observation.
Slide 6 : Conversation
Listening to people’s conversation;get them to talk to us about the things they know,and discussing subjects that interest us goes a long way to craft a perfect essay.
Slide 7 : The special preparation needed for writing an essay is defining the subject. special preparation
Defining the subject : Defining the subject It is very important that one should have a clear and accurate conception of the subject of the essay before one attempts to write on it –what exactly it is and (equally important) what it is not.It is therefore very necessary that oneshould define the subject very clearly in one’s own mind.
Collecting materials : Collecting materials Reading up the subject
When one has got a clear idea of a subject,the next step will be to think of what one can say about it.One should not attempt to write the essay before one has given some time to thinking over what one can say on the subject.
Slide 10 : Collection
As one thinks over the subject,ideas,facts,and illustrations will pass through one’s mind.One should catch these fleeting thoughts by jotting them down a piece of paper just as they come into our head without troubling ourselves anout their order or suitability.
Slide 11 : selection
When one has collected enough material for the essay,one should select the points most suitable for one’s purpose.This process of selection will suggest to us in a general way the line of thought one may follow in the essay.
Slide 12 : Now one should be ready to decide on the line of thought of the essay.The logical order in whichone can arrange the points one has selected.Without it,the essay will probably be badly arranged,disproportioned,and full of repetitions and irrelevancies. logical arrangement
Slide 13 : Making the outline
Bearing the subject definitely in one’s mind with the purpose clearly ,one should sketch out a bare putline of the main heads,under which one will arrange various materials in natural,logical and convincing order- from a brief introduction to an effective conclusion.
Slide 14 : Filling the outline
Having thus mapped out the main points with which one is going to deal,one has to arrange the ideas thus collected each under its proper main head,rejecting all those not really relevant to the subject or which simply repeat other thoughts,and taking care that each really belongs to the division in which one places it.
Slide 15 : Finally, one will have a full outline.which is to be a guide in writing the essay.But this is not the essay,but only its well-articulated skeleton.One must now clothe the skeleton with flesh,and( most difficult of all) breathe into it the breath of life,before one can call the production an essay essay essay essay