Essay writing problems

"Of all the types of creative work, writing an essay presents the greatest difficulties and problems for students."

 This is due to the fact that in the text the author must express his own opinion on the problem under consideration. If, when writing a test or a report, it is enough just to list several points of view of authoritative authors on a particular topic and interpret them, then when writing an essay from a student, you are required to present your own vision of the issue being studied. The fact that the essay should be formulated by the author's own point of view, and represents the greatest problems when writing it. This problem is particularly relevant for first-year students. At the initial stage of training, the students' own point of view on this or that problem is either not yet formed, or is in the formative stage, therefore, writing an essay is fraught with certain difficulties.

 The problem of the student’s substantiation of his own point of view often coexists with the problem of the mismatch of his vision of the issue with the teacher’s opinion. For example, when writing an essay on the history of the United States of America, the most acute, problematic periods of history appear as themes. Which teacher and student due to the established ideological attitudes, worldview and other factors can look and see each in their own way.

When writing an essay, the student’s point of view may not coincide with the teacher’s point of view on the period in question, which sometimes creates problems for the student with passing the test, the exam, or receiving a positive result. Often, students, knowing about those or other preferences of the teacher, when writing an essay, “adapt” to his point of view at the expense of their own position, show other types of conformism to get the desired result. Such an approach does not contribute to the correct formation of the students 'scientific outlook, so the correct, tolerant perception of the students' individual points of view is of great importance for resolving this problem.


It must be borne in mind that writing an essay requires the author not only to have his own point of view, but also to be able to formulate and substantiate it. Often, due to the limited vocabulary, the inability of students to formulate their thoughts, creative work becomes a meaningless and unrelated text.


A lot of controversial issues arise in the design of the structure of work. Often when writing an essay, teachers require its standard design with the presence of the introduction, the main part, the conclusion. This is not always acceptable. An essay implies the free expression of one's point of view in the form of a free composition, and it is not always possible to build it in accordance with the strict structure of writing.


As with the writing of other types of works, the essay is characterized by problems associated with its design. These problems include the inability of students to correctly draw up a footnote, a bibliographic list. To fulfill these conditions, it is sufficient to carefully read the materials of the guidelines.

When writing creative works, the most important thing is not to be afraid of the arising difficulties, but to solve them methodically and gradually.

How to finish an essay?

"Very often, students are faced with a task such as writing an essay. Usually, the main text is written quickly, since this genre implies a small amount, and the main issues are the conclusion. In some cases this can cause serious difficulties. Before the author a question arises: “What should I write in the conclusion of an essay, and how to finish it correctly?”. In this article we will try to tell why it is so important to correctly complete the essay, and how to do it correctly."

 An essay usually does not have strict standards of design and is a free statement of thought. But, as a rule, there are some points that should be followed when building this genre:

     At the beginning is the introduction;
     Further (at the basis of the part) the author’s thoughts are presented in the form of short theses and supported by arguments;
     Finally, a conclusion is written, which we will talk about.

 To draw a conclusion is very important when writing any work, including an essay. First, it visually and logically makes the work complete, understandable to the reader: the story is not interrupted, but gradually goes to its completion. Secondly, it demonstrates the literacy and effort of the author of the essay, he really did the work, figured out the topic, studied certain materials, expressed his thoughts and was able to draw conclusions at the end.

 So what to look for in the final part of the essay? First, you can repeat the main theme of the work, highlighting the main points that needed to be studied. You can also briefly write out the basic ideas on which you once again want to focus the attention of the reader. Theses indicated earlier should be reformulated in order not to cause repetition. Conclusions on those aspects that have already been mentioned in the introduction or the main part can also be presented in a slightly different form or use special phrases when submitting them. For example, “summing up, I would like to note,” “the analysis showed the following,” “as a result, we can draw the following conclusions,” “the arguments presented earlier suggest that,” “this confirms our idea that,” etc.

 It is important to understand that the conclusion can not contain new information, facts that have not been mentioned before, as this may confuse the reader. Conclusions should be only on the basis of what has already been covered earlier.

 You can complete the essay with a beautiful phrase that will make the reader think about the problem posed or call for any action. You can recall a suitable quotation of a famous person, a proverb or a phraseological unit, but here, the main thing is not to overdo it and really insert a statement appropriate.

 In this article we tried to talk about why you need a conclusion in an essay and how to write it correctly. Using the suggested recommendations, you can quickly and without much difficulty write a conclusion to an essay on any topic!

How to write a biography essay?

"The task of the essay is to develop abilities, as an independent creative thinking and a written statement of personal thoughts."

Writing an essay is very good, because it allows the creator to learn to clearly and competently express thoughts, structure information, apply principal opinions, highlight causal relationships, illustrate skill with proper examples, prove your own conclusions.

More topical topic for an essay of a young expert is the content of "I and my career." The topic of the essay is given for this, so that the commission (employer) was simply to assess the features of your thinking, creative possibilities, excitement and potential. The best way to achieve such a result is to scribble straight and uncovered, while remaining conscientious with oneself. If you are not true, there is every chance, in fact, that your essay will be considered unnatural.

Essay writing rules

-  From the formal rules of writing an essay, it is possible to name only one thing - the presence of the title.
-  The internal design of the essay can be random. Because this is a small configuration of written work, it does not require an inherent repetition of conclusions at the end; they have all chances to be integrated into the leading word or into the title.
-  Motivation has the ability to precede the formulation of difficulty. The wording of the difficulty has the opportunity to coincide with the final conclusion.
-  Unlike the essay, which is addressed to every reader, in consequence of this comes with "I try to tell about ...", and ends "I came to the coming conclusions ...", an essay is a replica addressed to a prepared reader (listener). That is, a person who, in aggregate, already gives what it is about. This allows the creator of the essay to concentrate on disclosing fresh and not cluttering up the presentation with official components. 

How to write an essay biographical type? 

Autobiography means biography. This essay is considered a description of the events of life. It is possible to tell about the fate of a certain person, writer, actor, artist, or to describe the life of a metropolis, or including the state. 

 In such an essay, as in a simple story, actions take place. It develops in time. But no strings. No plot. Actions about which you will speak are simply listed in chronological order.

 In the story of a person, you tell when and where a person appeared, when, where and how he studied, where he spent his infancy, received recognition, etc. Naturally, key actions are chosen. The story goes from the past to the real, then to the future.

The purpose of an biography-type essay is considered not to be an elementary story about a person, megalopolis, book, but to recruit the interest of the reading public to some socially significant task.

So how do you write an essay?