How To Write An Essay
1. What is an essay?
An organised collection
of YOUR IDEAS
about literary texts
nicely written
and professionally presented .
In other words, the essay must be well structured (ie organised) and presented in a way that the reader finds easy to follow and clear: it must look tidy and not present any obstacles to the reader. It must have a clear readable interesting style. But, above all, it must consist of your ideas about literary texts. This is the centre of it: this, and this only, gets the marks. Not quotes from critics, not generalisations at second hand about literary history, not filling and padding; your thoughts, that you have had while in the act of reading specific bits of literary texts, which can be adduced in the form of quotations to back up your arguments.
2. Why write in this way?
2.1 Learning how to write professionally
In the English Department you learn how to respond to literary texts. This is an interesting and worthwhile thing to do, but......
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