Prepared by D K Singhal 2 Oh Essays Essays are important to get good marks But after you leave college Prepared by D K Singhal 3 You may be asked to write project reports observation reports audit reports etc ID: 752262
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Oh! Essays….
Essays are important to get good marks.
But, after you leave college…….?
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You may be asked to write project reports, observation reports, audit reports etc.
A good essay writing capability will help you writing all these with ease, in a fairly readable and presentable manner.
No doubt, it also gives you an upper edge over your colleagues.
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Why to Discuss it Here?
Why this separate class for the essays?
In school-
More focus on marks
Monotony
More number of students
Lack of knowledge of working culture in modern job scenario
Overloaded teachers
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What is an essay?
An Essay is a group of paragraphs about a specific subject.Like a paragraph, an essay generally makes and supports one main theme point.
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Essay
An essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything
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Is That You?
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Why to Write an Essay?
You want to convince someone regarding your point of view regarding an issue.
You want to present multiple ideas/issues that wouldn’t fit into a single paragraph situation.
You want to sound intelligent and organized.
Finally, you want to get good marks in your school, college or university!
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Types of Essays
Argumentative Essay Cause And Effect Essay
Classification Essay Comparison Essay
Critical Essay Deductive Essay
Descriptive Essay Definition Essay
Discussion Essay Exploratory Essay
Scholarship Essay Informal Essay
Literature Essay Narrative Essay
Personal Essay Persuasive Essay
Research Essay Response Essay
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That was the approach you are used to understand topics in school.
Don’t be afraid. I am not going to be so BORING.
So, shell we begin visualizing essays in a different perspective?
If yes, be prepared to answer a couple of questions.
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Q. 1:
Do you like
Golgappe
?
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Do you like Golgappe?
Funny!
Isn’t it?
What is common between
Golgappe
and Essays?
Anyway, move on to the next question……
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Q. 2:
Well! If some of you don’t like Golgappe
, replace this with
Rasgulle
, and answer this-
Can you eat five
Golgappe
(
Rasgulle
) at a time?
Yes / No.
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Ans.:
I think you cannot eat five Golgappe
(or
Rasgulle
) at one time.
You eat these only one by one. First, second, third…… and so and so forth.
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Lesson:
That is the first aspect of writing an essay.Never try to write the whole essay in one go; write it in step by step.
Break your essay in several parts.
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Essay Breaking Examples-
Introduction
Body Text
About the topic
Its good points
Its disadvantages
Conclusion
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Introduction
Does Introduction
need any introduction?
Tell me if you are asked to write an essay on “My School”, what are going to be first two-three lines of it?
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My school name is…..
abcdef….?
This is a good school.
I read in …..
abcdef
…. School.
It is located at ….
abc
Road……
Or would you like to consider something different?
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My School
Basic education plays an important role in developing good citizens for country.A good school is like a ‘processing plant’ where capabilities of a student are developed and improved continuously.
My school, “
Name of Your School
” is sincerely fulfilling its responsibilities towards its goal to a better nation.
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Introduction
Never jump to main topic at once.Start at some other point, and slowly and slowly come to the main subject.
Remember, from something else, you have to come to the point, and not follow the reverse path, like in next example.
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My school name is …..
abcdef…..
My school is very big. Airplane is also very big. Airplane flies in the air. We breathe in air. Air is very important for us to live. Studies are also very important. So we go to our school. I go by bus to my school. I like going to school and coming back from school. It is the time in between I don’t like much.
Out of 10, how many marks you’d give to this
type of essay
.
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Another Example: What are the various sources and types of Air Pollution ?
As a result of removal of natural vegetation, industrialization and increase in the number of automobiles, the air over big cities is heavily contaminated with dust, smoke and poisonous gases like carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen.
The contamination of air with dust, smoke and harmful gases, which adversely affect human beings and other living organisms, is called air pollution. The substances whose presence in air produces air pollution are called air pollutants.
Some of the major air pollutants are carbon monoxide, excess carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, lower organic molecules, dust and smoke. Polluted air produces a large number of harmful effects on the living and non-living things.
So Boring……
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Remember-
A good introduction must be able to create readers interest in whatever you have written.
It is the introduction on which the reader usually decides whether to it read further or not.
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What Not to write in Introduction
Don’t apologize- no starting like- “In my opinion” or “I may not be an expert, but….”
Don’t begin with dictionary definitions.
Don’t announce what you intend to do. “The purpose of this essay is to….” or “I am going to argue that….” should be avoided.
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Body Text
Body text is the main part of essay.
Here you need to be very clear, specific, straightforward, and systematic.
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Body Text: Outline
For more clear vision, let us divide body text also in several heads. This is called outlining or structuring.
A few examples show this-
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Outline: My School
My school
Strength (no. of students)
Canteen….. ……. …….!!!!
No. of Teachers
No. of Classrooms, laboratories etc.
Recreational facilities
Other achievements
etc. etc.
You may decide to write 1-2 or 3 lines on every point.
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Did you notice something?
In outline or structure, you must have noticed that the canteen is coming between students and teachers.
Does it look nice?
No. But after writing outlines, you can change the sequence of the outline points.
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My school
Strength (no. of students)
Canteen….. ……. …….!!!!
No. of Teachers
No. of Classrooms, laboratories etc.
Recreational facilities
Other achievements
etc. etc.
You may decide to write 1-2-3 or more lines on every point.
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Before going further, take a break for a couple of minutes and think if you would like to give good marks to a student in essay where canteen comes in between students and teachers?
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Well, while many of you are smiling, why there are some faced who are looking sad?
Remembering
Golgappas
!
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Body Text
Flow (Readability)
Flow is another important requirement in any essay. While you read, you must be able to relate each and every sentence with the earlier one.
Read what you have written several times. If you find it seems a little difficult, fragment some long sentences or consider changing some words with their synonyms.
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In most of the lower classes, poor flow is the general observation.
After you write an essay, try to read by heart several times to find out any flow problem.
Examples….
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Example: If I were the principal of my school
As the session begins, I would see to it that all the difficult subjects are not taught one after the other. Science should be followed by English and not by Maths. Sometimes the principals of schools have a poor knowledge of what students like and they thrust a lot down their throats without caring that they are not always receptive.
I would encourage a lot of sports and extra curricular activities like drama, music, painting, creative writing, clay modeling, photography, horse riding, swimming, dancing, etc. This would keep the students interested in coming to school and they would enjoy their long hours of stay in school. When there are so many interesting activities for the students, they remain happy and their mind is able to absorb the lessons from the most difficult subjects with greater case.
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Example: If I were the principal of my school
As the session begins, I would see to it that all the difficult subjects are not taught one after the other. Science should be followed by English and not by Maths.
Sometimes the principals of schools have a poor knowledge of what students like and they thrust a lot down their throats without caring that they are not always receptive.
The above underlined matter gives a poor readability (Poor Flow!).
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Grammar
Grammar is extremely important.
Grammar should
not
be confined to a single sentence but to entire essay.
How is it possible?
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Grammar (Examples)
Today my parents were at hospital in Delhi. They will visit my Uncle Raju
because he had an operation. My Uncle is feeling well now and he will be home soon.
Last Sunday, I was on the beach in Goa. I sunbathed and went swimming because it was sunny and hot. The beach was crowded and I had a great time.
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Grammar (Examples)
Today my parents were
at hospital in Delhi. They
will
visit my Uncle
Raju
because he had an operation. My Uncle
is
feeling well now and he
will
be home soon.
Last Sunday, I was on the beach in Goa. I sunbathed and went swimming because it was sunny and hot. The beach was crowded and I had a great time.
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So far you have used grammar mainly to sentences.
A sentence may be grammatically correct, but if its tense is not the same as per the theme, it becomes incorrect.
Always pay attention to
tenses
in
sentences
.
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Sample: Poor Use of Tenses
I
go
to the store and I
bought
milk.
I
will eat
fish for dinner and
drank
milk with my dinner.
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Sample: Poor Use of Tenses
I
go
to the store and I
bought
milk.
Go
is a present tense verb.
Bought
is a past tense verb. Bought should be
buy
milk since these two events both occur at the same time.
I
will eat
fish for dinner and
drank
milk with my dinner.
Will eat
is a future tense verb but
drank
is a past tense verb. Since the dinner is going to happen in the future, it is not possible that the milk was drunk already.
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Punctuation: Do I need to say more?
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Spellings
Spellings should be always correct. If you are in doubt, make a practice to refer to dictionary regularly. This will help you a lot in later stage.
Sometimes, wrong spellings may make a sentence absurd. Be careful.
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Poor Use of Spellings
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Poor Spellings!
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Conclusions
Conclusion is for giving a final impression of your topic, essay and your views. In conclusion, you may-
Give a recommendation what the reader should do after reading essay.
Give a prediction about what will follow.
End with a relevant quote.
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Finally…
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To write good essays, you must have….
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General Tricks
Do not write in 1
st
person. (Avoid ”I”)
Move from weakest point to strongest.
Do not start a body / concluding paragraph with a quotation.
Always stick to tense.
If you have time, put it aside for some time, and revise.
Read your essay aloud, as you are making a speech. You will be able to find out some
of the errors
.
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How to Write Good!
In the next slide, you will see simple DO’s and DON’Ts about how to write good.
Each sentence is true, individually correct, but as a whole, deny of what it itself is saying.
May look like organizing a
Chowmin
-Pizza-Burger party to spread the message against fast foods.
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Practice
Practice Well, before you can say it……….
Whenever stuck, think……..
GOLGAPPAs
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About the Author:
Born in 1968, D K Singhal
is B.E., M.E. (Pulp & Paper, 1993) from
Deptt
. of Paper Technology, University of
Roorkee
(now IIT,
Roorkee
). He was certified as Certified Energy Auditor in 2004 with Bureau of Energy Efficiency. In addition to practical experience in papermaking, project planning, research and development, consultancy, automation etc.; energy conservation and cost reduction have been his main areas of concern.
With nearly 6 dozen publications, he has emphasized on development of low cost technologies and management practices for quality and profitability improvement. With publications on energymanagertraining.com and paperonweb.com, he has been constantly contributing to IPPTA. He is also serving IPPTA as a member of Editorial Board and
Executive Committee.
With Chandpur Enterprises Ltd., development of quality MG poster paper on carbon steel fabricated
yankee
cylinder, design, engineering, erection and commissioning of surface winding on
supercalender
both for the first time in India, are some of his achievements.
An initiative by D K
Singhal
, a cyber campaign initiated against unjustified targeting of paper industry by “Idea” mobile, in their “
Sirjee
” advertisement campaign, after which this advertisement was taken off air.
He has also moderated a Yahoo group, “
PaperTechnology
” with nearly 360 members from India and abroad to discuss problems related to pulp & paper making.
He can be contacted at
deveshksinghal@gmail.com
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