ESSAY GUIDANCE PROGRAMME

ESSAY GUIDANCE PROGRAMME

                                 If you don’t know how to write an essay, it can be a very difficult thing to do. Here is an approach to making

writing an essay a more manageable task.

How to Start?

Before you start writing an essay, you need to decide three things. What are you writing about? What do you

imagine will be reading your essay? What do you want to tell them? A popular kind of essay is to offer your reader

an opinion or argument. You can write a successful essay by starting off with a plan. The key to doing a successful

essay is to break the writing down into short, simple steps.

DRAFT OF YOUR ESSAY

Introduction: Reread your introductory sentence. Add a one or two more sentences explaining your main idea.

Remember that the job of your introductory paragraph is to get your reader’s attention.

Main Body: Reread you topic sentences. Each topic sentence now becomes the first sentence of a new paragraph.

Add to the first sentence of each paragraph. Write two or three more sentences to each. Use these new sentences is

to support and explain your ideas. You can do this by offering facts, details, or examples. Remember that the job of

your essay body is to share ideas with your reader. See if you can convince your reader to share your opinions.

Conclusion: It’s time to write a final paragraph—your conclusion. A conclusion restates the main idea of your

essay, and sums up what your essay is about. Do this in one or two sentences. Remember that the job of your

conclusions is to leave your reader with something to think about.

Facts about Essay

· Essay is liberal writing

· Essay are not general knowledge

· There is limit on words and thoughts (analytical, not emotional)

· It is test of understanding not knowledge

· Some candidates do have feeling that philosophical topic are more paying. In fact, it is true to some extent

but the more relevant thing is that marks are not given on the choice of the topic, but on the presentation of

the topic.

· In the other question papers where the state of selection is maximum 100% there in the essay paper it is

600% (1 out of 6). The reason is that the examiner does not want the student leaves this question.

· The misfortune is that facility of option that has given to you as a blessing, the same becomes a curse for

you, if you have not accepted in the correct way. When the liberties are too many, then the chances of

confusion increase.

· In GS the facts are more important than style of expression whereas in the essays along with the facts, the

expression style is also important.

· In the essay your general understanding is being examined while in GS your general knowledge is tested.

Actually there is no opposition between knowledge and understanding. The M.Sc student of Agriculture has

the knowledge related to agriculture while the farmer has understanding.

· While reading, he essay should not appear to have been written on the basis of facts, rather the facts were

written according to the essay.

Essay should be according to the subject as:

India based: Importance of Indo-US Nuclear Agreement

Naturally your language should be neutral and descriptive, means that there should be no flow of emotions in it,

rather the facts should be presented straight away. Actually in such types of essays, the purpose of the topic is

important and the language takes a back seat.

Women based: Women’s empowerment: Challenges & Prospects

The essay is not on status or role of women but on a specialized aspect-on empowerment. To understand this essay

properly, you will have to divide it into–Meaning of empowerment, Need of women empowerment, various aspects

of empowerment, challenges, some suggestions.

Society and Culture based: Indian society at the crossroads

This is a traditional topic, which is continuing from many years and further would be asked for many years. You

can give it a new shape with your understanding. In this way you can analyze the relations between Society, Culture

and Social Change.

Ethics and Morality base: The Modern living values

This is such an intensive topic events related to which are an everyday occurring. The incidents of Crime and

Violence, increasing affinity for money, the expanding nature of consumerism, unfair trade practices and Jealous,

etc. can be read every day. You can take one or two of these features from newspaper, television or from cinema to

brighten up your essays.

Philosophical Thought based: When money sparks, the truth is silent

Remember that such essay should always be seen in connection with the present times. Such essays are abstract.

They do not have a clear concrete form. Thus if you relate them to the events around you then its adds life to your

essay and also prevents you from deviation.

Here I mean to say that there is no such topic which cannot be connected to the present times. Here it is to be alert

that he entire essay should be revolve around contemporariness. It should be mentioned only as an example. The

context that is most relevant should be presented as a glimpse, not as a detailed description of the event.

As far as the language of the essay is concerned, it should be:

· Easy and simple

· Use less of exaggerated style

· Use minimum difficult words

· Tightness in the language

· Do not repeat the same thing

· Present all aspects — Political, Social and Economic etc.

· Legible handwriting

· Underline important points

· Change the paragraph, wherever you feel that are thought / idea has been completed.