A Essay

An essay is an extended piece of writing that presents and supports a thesis or

proposition.

When you write an essay you are making a case for the validity of a particular point of
view, analysis, interpretation, or set of facts or procedures.

There are many types of essays…

 argumentative,  analytical,  and so on

 descriptive,  exploratory,
 synoptic,  review,

… but they all have the common objective of presenting and defending a topic and a
stance to the reader.

How to write an essay

An essay is a focused piece of writing that develops an argument or narrative based
on evidence, analysis and interpretation.

There are many types of essays you might write as a student. The content and length
of an essay depends on your level, subject of study, and course requirements.
However, most academic essays share the same goal: They aim to persuade readers
of a position or perspective through informed arguments.

To write an essay, there are three main stages:

1. Preparation: Decide on your topic, do your research, and create an essay

outline.
2. Writing: Set out your argument in the introduction, develop it with evidence in
the main body, and wrap it up with a conclusion.
3. Revision: Check the content, organization, grammar, spelling, and formatting
of your essay.

An essay is a "short formal piece of writing..dealing with a single

subject" ("Essay," 2001). It is typically written to try to persuade the reader using
selected research evidence ("Essay," 1997). In general, an academic
essay has three parts:

1. An introduction that gives the reader an idea of what they are about to learn
and presents an argument in the form of a thesis statement.
2. A body, or middle section, that provides evidence used to prove and
persuade the reader to accept the writer's particular point of view.
 3. A conclusion that summarizes the content and findings of the essay.
CONNECTORS FOR A ESSAY
ORDER
First parragraph
At first sight: A primera
vista
First: En primer lugar
First of all: Antes que nada
In the first place: En primer
lugar
To start with: Para
empezar
Second parragraph
In the second place: En
segundo lugar
Second: Segundo
Secondly: En segundo
lugar
Third: Tercero
Thirdly: En tercer lugar
Conclusion
Finally: Por último
In conclusion: Para
concluir
Lastly: Por último
And eventually: Y
finalmente
Adding information
apart from: Aparte de
in addition: Además
in addition to: Además de
moreover: Además
on top of that: Además
besides: Además
On the one hand: Por una
parte
On the other hand: Por otra
parte
and eventually: Y finalmente opinion
as far as I am concerned
Contrast por lo que a mí respecta
from my point of view
all the same: a pesar de desde mi punto de vista
todo I agree estoy de acuerdo
however: sin embargo I disagree no estoy de
instead of: en vez de acuerdo
in spite of / despite: a in my opinion en mi
pesar de opinión
nevertheless: no obstante in my view según lo veo
on the contrary: por el I think that creo que
contrario it is true that es verdad
que
Reason personally personalmente
to be honest, para ser
because of + noun: a honesto
causa de to tell the truth, a decir
due to + noun: debido a verdad
due to the fact that +
sentence: debido a que  Explain
for this / that reason:  por that is (to say): es decir
esta / esa razón in other words: en otras
palabras
Result in short: en resumen
above all: sobre todo
as a result: como all in all: en general
resultado at least: al menos
because of: a causa de basically: básicamente,
consequently: en fundamentalmente
consecuencia especially: especialmente,
so: por lo tanto sobre todo
that's why: por eso, por essentially: esencialmente
esa razón... in general: en general
therefore: por lo tanto in particular: en particular
more or less: más o
menos
Expressing facts on the whole: en general
actually: en realidad to a certain extent: hasta
as a matter of fact: de cierto punto
hecho
in fact: de hecho Exemplifying
really: en realidad and so on: etcétera
for example: por ejemplo
for instance: por ejemplo
Expressing a personal
such: as tal(es)como on the whole: en general in the end: al final
to sum up: Para resumi in the meantime: mientras
Summarizing tanto
all in all: en suma Sequencing meanwhile: mientras tanto
in brief: en resumen after that: después de eso next: luego
in conclusion: Para all of a sudden: de repente suddenly: de repente
concluir Finally: Finalmente then: entonces, después
in short: en resumen First of all: En primer lugar while: mientr

Example:

MINING ENGINEERING FORMATIVE RESEARCH

ASSIGMENT- ENGLISH II
Students will present an essay in which they will complete the following title: "My life

is like this ..." in three paragraphs: First: My past life, Second: My present life, Third:

My future.

This work will have a minimum of 500 words, it will be presented to the end the 2020-B

semester.