Questions tagged [essay]
Essays are generally scholarly pieces of writing giving the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of an article, a pamphlet and a short story.
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Using expletives in an essay
Good day everyone!
Just a background, I am writing an essay that is formatted with APA styling.
In my paper, I have the word "shit" in it; essentially in this part of the essay, I am discussing ...
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What makes writing emotional?
Over the years, my English professors seem to have agreed on one thing: that I'm a superb technical writer, but terrible at eliciting emotional response in something like a story or an argumentative ...
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How can I make a collection of essays / arguments more attractive to publishers?
I've written several essays and am still working on some that I would like to eventually get published.
The issues I cover are on a wide range of topics ranging from Scientology to Piracy to ...
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Is it ok to begin an essay/report with a quote?
I am writing an essay on project management within IT and in my introduction I will give a brief description of project management, to being my essay I was looking at using one of these:
Project ...
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Difference between an 'Abstract' and an 'Introduction' in a feature article?
I have to write a feature article for school. However, I'm confused how an abstract [a summary of my points] is different to an intro [Where you outline the points you're going to be elaborating in ...
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What are some tricks for managing debilitating writing anxiety/phobia?
For the past 4 years, I've developed a severe problem with writing anxiety. It's become so bad, that I had to drop out of my first university because I wasn't able to keep up with the course work. I'...
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How many points are sufficient for my essay?
I am writing a 3000 word essay entitled 'Challenges and opportunities of future Civil Aviation'. For the essay, I have taken two aspects of the future of civil aviation in supersonic flight and ...
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Correct typography for the name of an event [closed]
When you write the title of a book, you put it in italics. What about the title of an event, such as the Super Bowl or the World Cup? Of everything I looked at, this has the most information, but ...
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Are essays supposed to be formal?
After reading a prompt to one of essays, and then looking at this link, I realized how little I know about the actual meaning of an essay.
Here is how my definition of "essay" has become muddied over ...
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Citing multiple quotes from a single novel
I'm writing an analytical essay (for school) about a novel. I need to cite some quotes (for support), that comes from that novel.
I know that the MLA style citation goes as follows:
"Quote goes here"...
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How to approach an “Imagine and Describe” creative essay prompt?
I have this prompt for a creative essay as part of my application into a summer program:
Participants in the Summer Programs for High School Students come from approximately 75 different countries ...
