This document provides guidance on essay writing for junior students. It defines what an essay is, noting that it involves assessing a proposition with evidence and evaluation. The document then lists 10 essential points for effective essay writing, such as keeping it short and focused on the question. It also discusses essay structure, recommending that students read the topic carefully, consider key words, structure their response, and demonstrate a breadth of reading while focusing on the topic.

2. Comprehensive essay writing for junior students

6. the 10 essential points:

7. 1. Keep essays short and to the point, and legible.

8. 2. Make sure that spelling and grammar are correct and write in lucid, full sentences and paragraphs of proper length.

9. 3. Focus on answering the question, not just regurgitating prepared material.

10. 4. In writing essays on literary text, concentrate on HOW the writer writes, not only on WHAT the writer says.

11. 5. In describing a writers style, use the appropriate and conventional technical terms

12. 6. When closely analysing a text, do not go through it laboriously, line by line, stanza by stanza, chapter by chapter, but concentrate on its main features relevant to the question

13. 7. Make sure that the names of writers and the titles of texts and any quotations from texts are spelt and punctuated correctly and are word perfect, near enough is not good enough.

14. 8. Learn some key phrases from the text you are studying, which are central to the themes, ideas and / or prose for use in an essay.

15. 9. In your essay, try to show the breadth as well as the depth of your reading.

16. 10. Remember that you don’t need to agree with a proposition in an essay question, nor do you need to praise a writer or topic you are studying unreservedly.

17. Essay structure

18. 1. Read the topic at least twice, slowly and carefully underlining key points and key phrases

19. 2. Scrutinize key words which require special attention in discussions.

20. 3. The topic requires a class discussion, we need to think about the kind of essay styles we will be using to fulfill this requirements.

21. 4. We must think about structure of the essay, in terms of what it must contain and the sequence in which we deal with these components.

22. 5. Variation of terminology

23. 6. Introduce your particular angle on the topic

24. 7. An innovative approach, to stimulate examiners interest

25. 8. Demonstrating breadth of reading while remaining focused on the topic.

26. 9. The concluding paragraph

27. 10. Review the essay

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