This document discusses the key aspects of essays, including:
1. Essays are analytical compositions intended to explain an idea or impression through prose.
2. They can cover a variety of topics and genres, from diaries to reviews.
3. Essays are crafted to share opinions, insights, experiences or observations on a given topic.
This document discusses the key aspects of essays, including:
1. Essays are analytical compositions intended to explain an idea or impression through prose.
2. They can cover a variety of topics and genres, from diaries to reviews.
3. Essays are crafted to share opinions, insights, experiences or observations on a given topic.
This document discusses the key aspects of essays, including:
1. Essays are analytical compositions intended to explain an idea or impression through prose.
2. They can cover a variety of topics and genres, from diaries to reviews.
3. Essays are crafted to share opinions, insights, experiences or observations on a given topic.
This document discusses the key aspects of essays, including:
1. Essays are analytical compositions intended to explain an idea or impression through prose.
2. They can cover a variety of topics and genres, from diaries to reviews.
3. Essays are crafted to share opinions, insights, experiences or observations on a given topic.
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LESSON 13:
EXPLORING ESSAY Here are some important descriptions about the essay form that you should bear in mind:
“Essay”, as a term, is taken from the word “essays” literally means
attempts mainly attributed to Michael de Montaigne.
A. THE NATURE It is classified as a composition in prose form, of enough length and is typically intended to explain an idea, theory, or an impression.
AND It covers a variety of text like diaries, journals, letters, newspaper
CONVENTIONS editorials, reports, and review.
OF ESSAY It is an analytical or interpretative literary composition that discloses a person’s thoughts, opinions, or personal point of view about a certain topic. (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
Essays are crafted for purposes of Sharing an opinion, insights, experience,
or observations.
Fumar (2009), in his notes, described the essay as a term that pertains to a piece of prose work that is notably personal than objective or verifiable than a feature article. Form and • This component includes the arrangement or order of ideas, unity, coherence, expository Structure device used and patterns of development.
B. BUILDING Content • These two include the point that the essay
BLOCKS OF attempts to raise. Aside from such, the subject and or focus of the composition, quality of topic, as well as the writer’s purpose and intention are
ESSAY Theme also under content and theme.
Language • This component provides information as to
what makes the essay literary about tone, and Style mood, diction, and literary devices used. Formal Essay Informal Essay
• Includes • This is also known
“highbrow” or as Familiar Essay. It entirely intellectual deals with topics; there is seriousness in tone commonplace and light topics. C. GENERAL TYPES OF and language is Language is formal. The style is somewhat familiar authoritative and and conversational scholarly. The writer exhibits but still insightful. This greatly ESSAY great mastery of establishes the topic. It is emotional appeal straightforward, rather than objective, and clear. intellectual. Reflective • This consider a subject which is highly philosophical
Essay in nature.
Critical • This includes reviews of books, movies, works of art
and other forms of compositions. This classification
Essay of essay highlights the positive and the negative
aspect of a certain work being judged. D. CLASSIFICATIONS Editorial • It highlights the writer’s opinions about an important OF ESSAY Essay issue of the day.
Nature • The intention for the writing of this essay is to
depict images found in nature such as trees, flowers,
Essay mountains, and animals. Mainly, this showcases the
beauty of nature and outdoor life. • It is entirely expository, Logical, clear and highly objective. It deals with the discussion Scientific Essay of the explorations and findings taken from scientific experimentations.This does not provide an opportunity to express the writer’s personality.
• This is written in the form of a story as it utilizes events or incidents to give shape to Narrative Essay a certain theme.
• Highlights contemplations which is difficult to prove using posing inquiries about an
Speculative Essay interesting topic.
• Depicts the life of an individual considered as the subject from infancy, maturity, to Biographical or one’s death; shows a description of a particular aspect of the life a certain person. It Character Sketch Essay can be analytical or interpretative depending on what dimension of the subject’s life is given emphasis. Described as serious and formal teaches a moral lesson. It resembles a tone similar to a teacher. It is mainly driven Didactic Essay to explain and to convince as it great emphasizes the ethical way of life.
Provides information as to how something looks
Descriptive Essay like, highlights qualities of something which provides animation, clarity, and reality to a narrative essay. PREPARED BY: JESSABELLE MORALES E I N S T I E N M A R K VA L E R I A N O REIZEL JEAN BON J I Z E L P L AC ER
