Essay Writing : SSC Descriptive

Essay Writing

• An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author’s point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including-literary criticism, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections. There can be various types of essays.
• Essay writing reveals how systematic your thought process is, and tests your ability to present your thoughts in a coherent manner.
• Essays can be written in various styles but the idea should be effective and capturing .An essay should be so constructed that it gives a meaningful impression to the examiner. 
• Every aspirant thinks “Essay writing is so easy” but it is not so simple. Before starting the first paragraph, you need to know what argument you’re going to make. Only then can you start writing the structure for an essay that builds up to your overall conclusion. Building your vocabulary and using it properly, which helps to develop an argument, is another important thing.

Kinds of Essay 

Narrative Essays

• A Narrative essay is a narration of some event or incident. They are experiences written by you that you face during your life. It tells a story whether based on real experiences or imaginative. The writer uses details that are significant and merge them to build up a story line that is easy for the examiner to follow.
• Example of Narrative essay: A day of my life when everything went wrong.

Descriptive Essays

• Descriptive essays are a genre of essay that asks the students to describe an object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation, etc. These types of essays allow for a great deal of artistic freedom. 
• Example of Descriptive essay:  Wonders of the ancient world.   

Persuasive Essays

• Through persuasive essays, you have to persuade the examiner into convincing that your point of view is correct by adopting logical reasoning to show that one idea is more legitimate than another idea. 
• Example of Persuasive essay:  Death Penalty in India.       

Reflective Essays

• It is a reflection or thoughts on some subject. The goal of a reflective essay is to not only
  discuss what you learned, but to convey the personal experiences and findings that resulted.

Imaginative Essays

• In these, you have to imagine a position or situation, such as ‘If I were the Prime Minister’; or
  ‘If all motor cars are banned’, ‘Autobiography of a Television’, etc.

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