Articles - Essays en-us http://proofpositive.com N/A http://proofpositive.com editor@proofpositive.com 20 http://proofpositive.com/articles/452/1/Youre-Scared-To-Start-Writing-But-You-Want-To-Write-Anyway/Page1.html A lot of us have never recovered from the assaults on our creative writing yet many of us have harbored the desire to write, really write for years. But we freeze up because we're afraid of exposing our tender, creative selves again. Here is one way you can take the first tentative step towards undoing the fear of writing. admin@proofpositive.com (Ellen Essene) Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/451/1/Sacred-Secrets-of-Effective-Essay-Writing-Process/Page1.html In today's highly competitive and ever-changing world it is extremely important to acquire the ability to explain your point of view, your contention as well as the gist of the topic you are familiar with. Whether you intend to become a teacher or have chosen other career path, it is imperative, even indispensable for many careers to develop good communicative skills. During your study at the University you might be assigned with several types of written assignments that help you to develop and enhance communication skills. I would like in this article to focus on two of them, expository essay and persuasive essay. In spite of the fact that the structure, style and some other elements of these writing projects are similar, there are some notable differences between them. admin@proofpositive.com (Keith Adams) Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/460/1/Essay-writing-------Argumentative-and-Persuasive-Essays/Page1.html College life: attending classes, taking tests, and writing essays. The dark side to education is cheating. What’s wrong with cheating from a university’s point of view? They get paid, what do they care what students do with their educations? If they care about students getting real educations, then copying essays and cheating on tests prevents students from really getting educated. Even if they don’t really care about the students, they care about their reputation to provide educations. A cheating atmosphere where plagiarized essays are accepted by educators will cheapen their reputation. admin@proofpositive.com ( Dale Lawrence) Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/459/1/Writing-Better-Essays/Page1.html What's happening with your college term papers and essays? Unfortunately, that's a question that a lot of student's cannot or do not want to answer. I see students on almost a daily basis who have the term paper blues. Their biggest problem? They just can't seem to get started. They procrastinate and rationalize. They put off doing their assignments until the eleventh hour. These students often succeed in convincing themselves that being able to write good term papers and essays is beyond them or just not necessary. This purpose of this website is to get you started on the road to writing good college term papers and essays. My simple steps in producing better essay papers should make writing papers at least easier if not easy. If you really want to be educated then you will have to learn to express yourself on paper. There is no way around this so adjust your attitude and decide you will learn to write a quality term paper or essay that says something. admin@proofpositive.com (Mike Cooper) Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/456/1/Art-of-Essay-Writing/Page1.html I love essays! I enjoy reading them, checking them, teaching my students how to generate them, but most of all I enjoy writing them! You want to ask why. I hope after reading my article you will understand. And I so much believe that you will also fall in love with the incredible world of essays. Let's start our trip from a short background. The word "essay" originated from French word "essai" which means "attempt, effort, sketch". And this translation reflects the essence of the task you are assigned at your college. Really, it is your personal attempt to give a challenging sketch on some engrossing issue. Unlike other academic assignments, essay suggests freedom of your creative work. Its main advantage is that you can write it on any topic, in any style. Essay is your own point of view on something you have heard, read, seen etc. The forefront of the essay is your personality, your thoughts, feelings and your life position. You have a unique chance to enter a reasonable controversy with other authors, as the teacher expects you to show your erudition in the subject. However, you should remember that regardless freedom of the writing process, it is not that easy at all. Because you are expected to find an original and capturing idea (even in the traditional context) and exceptional opinion on some problem. admin@proofpositive.com (Susan Kassel) Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/455/1/How-to-write-it/Page1.html Everything seems fine, no mistakes, no false statements, no taboo ideologies expressed but still you get "satisfactory" and think about what a looser you are. It seems unfair. After getting the same result each time you ask yourself, what is that I do wrong? How to write it? Here are some hints for you to get the general idea of how to do it. First of all, you are to choose, what kind of essay it will be (for and against, persuasive, description essay). Each of them has its own peculiarities and requires different style. Then you have to structure your essay properly in order to highlight the theme you were given or you have chosen. There has to be an introduction, where you introduce the main idea and the statement around which you are going to make your essay. Then goes a main body where you state all the necessary facts to prove your idea, express your opinion, and make an impression. Use as many facts as it is only possible. This will make your essay more interesting and serve the right aim, to impress the reader by your intelligence and writing skills. Then conclusion comes, where you summarize everything mentioned in the main body and make the necessary statements, according to the type of essay you are going to write. admin@proofpositive.com (Tyler Benson) Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/454/1/The-key-of-successful-descriptive-essay/Page1.html Every writer of fiction is trying to convey his view and understanding of the world to the reader. Every reader is trying to imagine the events or persons he is reading about. This technique -descriptive writing can be acquired by writing of the descriptive essay. Mainly it follows the common rules foressay writing, with a few peculiarities of its own. The main point of the descriptive essay is to illustrate some events, people, subjects or things to such extent that the reader can imagine vividly the description you are trying to convey. Before you start writing this type of the essay you should think what are trying to write about. Whether you would like to start writing about some events, portray a person or describe some things you should always understand why the subject of your description is important. admin@proofpositive.com (Jacob Parke) Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://proofpositive.com/articles/453/1/How-to-write-an-essay/Page1.html An essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. In a sequence essay, you are writing to describe a series of events or a process in some sort of order. Usually, this order is based on time. You organize the essay by writing about each step of the process in the order it occurred. Example question: Write an essay outlining the stages of the salmon life cycle. Introduction: Describe what a salmon is like. Supporting paragraphs: 1. Describe young salmon. 2. Describe adult salmon. 3. Describe what salmon do before they die. admin@proofpositive.com (Rita Hutner) Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0600