Essay Modes:

Different kinds of essays…

Descriptive essay
•Narrative essay
•Comparison essay
•Contrast essay
•Cause essay
•Effect essay
•Process Analysis
 Essay structure
• Simple steps of writing an essay:
1. Decide on your topic
2. Prepare an outline/brainstorm ideas
3. Write introduction
4. Write your thesis statement
5. Write the body ( three paragraphs)
write supporting sentences
6. Write the conclusion
7. Reviewing and Editing
 Essay Pattern
Introduction
# Thesis Statement

1st body Paragraph:

Topic sentence with controlling idea
Supporting sentences
Concluding sentence
2nd body paragraph
Topic sentence with controlling idea
Supporting sentences
Concluding sentence
3rd body paragraph
Topic sentence with controlling idea
Supporting sentences
Concluding sentence
Conclusion: Restatement of Thesis statement, summing
up your thoughts
 Introduction

1. Begin with the attention grabber

sentence/eye catching sentence.
2. You can use Anecdote
An anecdote is a story that illustrates a point.
3. You can start with Dialogue/quotation
4. Write some general statements which are
related with your topic
5. Finish the paragraph with your Thesis
statement
 The Thesis statement

• The thesis statement tells the reader

what the essay will be about, and
what point you, the author, will be
making. You know what the essay will
be about.
• The thesis statement is that sentence
or two in your text that contains the
focus of your essay and tells your
reader what the essay is going to be
about.
• the lack of a thesis statement may
well be a symptom of an essay beset
by a lack of focus.
• Many writers think of a thesis
statement as an umbrella: everything
that you carry along in your essay has
to fit under this umbrella, and if you try
to take on packages that don't fit, you
will either have to get a bigger
umbrella or something's going to get
wet.
• The thesis statement should remain
flexible until the paper is actually
finished. It should be a statement.
• The thesis statement can appear in
the middle of the essay. It more
frequently appears at or near the end
of the Introduction.
• Avoid announcing the thesis
statement as if it were a thesis
statement.
In other words, avoid using phrases such
as "The purpose of this paper is . . . . "
or "In this paper, I will attempt to . . . ."
Such phrases betray this paper to be
the work of an amateur.
It is better to have three sub points in
your thesis statement since you have to
develop three body paragraphs
 Sample Introduction with Thesis
statement
Topic : An NSU guard

• Scrutinizing every possible detail of the

people entering the premise, North South
University, wearing a fadeless smile with a
big responsibility of guarding is Abdul
Malek, a 42 years old guard. It is hard to
sneak into the university without showing
him the pass such as ID card even when
the face is familiar. The sheer
responsibility, the iron-attitude and the
helpless simplistic living makes Abdul
Malek exceptional among the guards.
 Sample:
• It was unlike any other day and my
classes were over soon. I walked
down the busy stairs of NSU and
went to the reception. As I looked
around I saw a beautiful security
guard standing on the entrance of the
campus of the reception. I was struck
by her beauty, her distinctive
personality and her sincerity towards
her work
• We may not notice, but being a security guard
is NSU is perhaps one of the toughest jobs
available within our campus. It is most
certainly not a job for boys but for men. It
might not be the most exciting job, but only
the hardest workers can pull this one off.
Starting from directly traffic in front of the
university to checking everyone’s ID card and,
not to forget, ensures the security of everyone
inside the University; this is not a job for one
person but an entire group of relentless
workers constantly communicating with each
other.