Secondary School Level

Essay writing is an important skill which has to be learnt and practiced. Essay writing involves presenting an argument and communicating. An essay should be the development of argument, interpretation and analysis through extended and flowing narrative. To do this you need to work at the level of the sentence, of course, but also, very importantly, you need to work at the level of the paragraph. The paragraph is a coherent passage of logically connected sentences usually concentrating on no more than one or two ideas relevant to your argument. Do not use very short and unconnected staccato sentences. It takes experience and practice to develop a sense of when a new paragraph is needed and when it has been finished. Several stages are involved in essay preparation,     choosing which points are to be considered, deciding how you will deal with them, and the actual writing. As you gain more more...

1. Have a clear idea of the subject of the essay before you attempt to write on it. Let there be no misunderstanding with regard to the meaning of the topic. 2. Put down on a rough piece of paper all the points that flash through your mind relating to the topic. 3. Now arrange the points in the best possible order such that your essay will grasp the attention of the reader. 4. Your best thoughts and sentences should be reserved for the first and last paragraphs. The introduction should be attractive and brief. It must necessarily serve to arouse the interest of the reader. The introduction may consist of an explanation or a statement of the subject and the way in which you are going to treat it, or an appropriate quotation, proverb, a very brief story, an incident or a general remark, but whatever may be the more...

My aim in life is to join the Army. I always feel excited when I see an army officer smartly dressed and walking proudly, his head held high. His shining eyes, his smart, manly and confident manner show that we are in safe hands. No enemy is capable of hurting us. I have known army life well. My brother is a senior army officer. I have often visited him. I have seen the peace time activities of these people. Of their war-time exploits I have heard from him and his fellow officers. It is really a very exciting life. What is more, it is a very clean life. Today, when no department is free from corruption, the Army is one profession where a man can remain honest. The Army makes a man hardy, resourceful and confident. Right from his earliest life at the N.D.A. he is trained hard and effectively. more...

Whatever you choose to write for an essay, you usually follow the same basic structure: Introduction Body Conclusion Begin an essay with an introduction which is the first paragraph. This paragraph begins with a specific sentence called the 'essay statement'. What you intend to convey in your composition is contained in this statement. It introduces the main idea of what your entire composition will be discussing. Ensure your thesis statement is a specific statement and is focused on a single idea rather than several. The opening paragraph should be designed to capture the interest of your reader. It focuses on your assertion, on what you are going to write about. The body is a group of paragraphs that develop on the main idea as introduced in the main statement. The main idea must now be elaborated with each developmental paragraph discussing a supporting point for the main idea. Each paragraph more...

Today, with television broadcasting stars sporting the stereotype wafer-thin body type, we have a generation of people wanting to be fashionably thin. With more and more people eating fast food, (which contains high amounts of fat and salt) as it is an easy, less time-consuming option, we have a whole lot of overweight people in danger of having serious medical conditions. People choose a particular diet either in the hope of changing their appearance or in the hope of gaining health benefits. Athletes have to have a diet that nourishes their body to be able to support their strenuous physical activities and maintain their physical condition. People with medical conditions need to have a diet that is need specific. A diet that promotes wholesome food and incorporates carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals in the right proportion is a good diet. Being obsessed with dieting to the extent that you begin more...

Outline: Meaning of unemployment. Classifying unemployment  into voluntary and involuntary types. Factors responsible for promoting unemployment among the people. Measures reducing unemployment Unemployment can be defined as the willingness of the people to do work. Unfortunately, there is no work for them to do. In other words, it can be explained as a state of no jobs for men fit and willing to work. India has faced gigantic problems caused due to unemployment. The rate of unemployment is much higher in urban regions as compared to rural. There is greater unemployment in agricultural sector than in industrial and other major segments. Usually, unemployment can be classified into two types. They are voluntary unemployment and involuntary unemployment. In the first type of unemployment a person is without job or work due to his own wish. This leads to social problem, which in turn gives rise to social disorganization. It also threatens more...

The name "essay" goes back to 1588 when the writer Michel de Montaigne published his book "Essays". Since then the word essay has been widely used to describe a short work that reveals the writer's point of view on some particular subject. This word has come from French and has the same origin as the French verb "essayer" (to attempt). It was a unique piece of literature in the 16th century, and it has not lost its unique nature. Really, we have been reading novels and are attracted by short stories; we are thrilled by the plot of drama, however these types of literature masterpieces create their own characters and have their own, frequently fictional plots. Unlike the written works mentioned above the writer of an essay communicates directly with the reader and thus the author gives his own opinion on the event, story, subject and even life in general. more...