Module 3 | Part 1 Flashcards
- It is a pose composition of moderate length devoted to a single topic from a limited point of view.
- It explains a provisional exploration or appraisal of a subject and likewise gives details, point of view or anything that can be said on a point of view or anything that can be said on a particular subject.
- Its purpose is to explain or elucidate a thought, a theory, inkling or a standpoint.
Essay
Essay comes from the French word, _____.
ESSAI
Essai means ______
Trial or Test
Elements of Essay
- explores the general proposition or thesis that the essay argues about the topic whether it is spelled out fully at the start or revealed gradually. It should be true but arguable and limited enough in scope to be argued in short composition and with available evidence.
Idea
Elements of Essay
identifies the reason for writing, which is suggested at the start of the essay and echoed throughout. It establishes the reason why one has thought of the topic that needed taking up and why the reader should care.
Motive
Elements of Essay
forms the shape of the ideas, the sequence of sub topics and sections through which the ideas are unfolded and developed. This takes place through the complementary activities of convincing the reader and exploring the topics.
Structure
Elements of Essay
identify the facts or details, summarized or quoted, that one uses to support, demonstrates and prove the main idea and sub ideas. They are ample, concrete and explicitly connected to the idea.
Evidence
Elements of Essay
are bits of background information, summary, context to orient the readers who are not familiar with the text being discussed. It includes essential plot information, precise locating of scene or comment, and setting up a quotation, telling who is speaking, in what context and what the reader should be listening for in it.
Explanation
Elements of Essay
shapes the smooth flow of argument created by transition sentences that show how the next paragraph or section follows from the preceding one, thus sustaining momentum and echoing key word or resonant phrases quoted or stated earlier.
Coherence
Elements of Essay
places speculation on the general significance of the particular analysis of a particular text. One suggests issues of argumentation raised about the authors work generally about work of its kind or about the way fiction or criticism works.
Implication
Elements of Essay
points out the sensation of life in writing of a mind invested in and focused on a subject, freely directing and developing the essay, not surrendering control to easy ideas, sentiments or stock phrases.
Presence
General Type of Essay
deals with serious topics that are authoritative and scholarly in treatment.
It reveals the writer’s mastery of the subject where its tone is dictated, characterized as something detached, objective, clear, and straightforward.
Strict/Impersonal
General Type of Essay
deals with light, ordinary, even common place subjects in a language that is bubbling, casual, conversational, friendly, often humorous, and appeals more to the emotion than the intellect, touching on sensitivity first then the mind.
The main source, the personality of the author, is revealed in the style and treatment of the subject
Casual/Familiar
3 Basic Parts of Essay
Introduction
Main Body
Conclusion
2 Major Patterns of Essay
Inductive Pattern
Deductive Pattern
