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.

The main part of the essay

"The number of pages in the finished essay usually does not exceed 3-4 pages, so the main part is the most important element of the work. It reflects the personal opinion of the author to the problem under discussion."

 The structure of the main part consists of theses and arguments. First, the author of the essay offers the reader a thesis, that is, a briefly formulated definite thought. Then comes the argument. He can prove that the given thought is true, if the author agrees with the thesis, or that the thought is erroneous, in the case of the author’s objection. Arguments should concisely demonstrate how the author came to this or that judgment, they can be based on personal experience, on the experience of other people, on historical events and facts. If you wish, you can add an intermediate conclusion after each pair of “thesis - arguments” to make it easier for the reader to trace the chain of your thoughts.

 Example:

 Thesis - the computer has replaced the book. Arguments - I agree with these words, because in my home library only a few books, and with the help of the Internet I find almost any book at any time. Now there is no need to go to the library to take an old torn book or spend a lot of money to buy a new one. In specialized stores, prices for books are too high, and on the Internet in most cases you can download a book for free. So books became more accessible.

Intermediate conclusion: technical progress makes people's lives easier.

 Thesis - scientific progress should not be ahead of the cultural and moral development of man. Argument - this is an example from life, confirming this thought. Once, residents of developed countries decided to help an African tribe living near the equator. Young Africans were trained to grow rice, gave them tractors and sowing tools. After a year, the benefactors returned to see how life had changed for the tribe who had gained knowledge and technique. They were disappointed when they found out that the Africans still live according to old customs: they sold the equipment to farmers, and with the money they received was a holiday for the coins they received.

Intermediate conclusion: a person needs to grow to the realization of his needs, it is impossible to change a person against his will.

 Alternate theses and arguments in the main part can be an unlimited number of times - as many as the author will need to substantiate the reader’s point of view.

 In the main part, you can use the following cliches:

Firstly Secondly Thirdly; eg; I agree with the writer; unfortunately, I do not quite agree with the point of view of the author; We illustrate this judgment with an example; on the one hand on the other hand.

After familiarizing the reader with the main part, he should have his own opinion on the problem in question, he must either accept or reject the point of view of the author. 

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 an analytical essay?

Writing an analytical essay

Under the analysis refers to a similar method of study, which allows you to explore certain parts of an object. As a rule, a specific difficulty is tested in analytical essays, that is, a discussion of the difficulty itself and the identification of patterns in it. As an object of analysis, it has the opportunity to make a familiar or practically unexplored scientific appearance, a scientific or artistic work, a historical event, a social problem or something else.

 Choosing a topic and object of study

The table of contents of an analytical essay will largely depend on the one that is actually chosen as the object for analysis. Thus, when considering a scientific work (dissertation, research paper, scientific article), an essay has the opportunity to be confined to the study of the reliability of the study, its potential, or the analysis of the findings acquired in it. When considering a work of art, there is every chance of being analyzed by the artistic methods of the creator or the difficulties raised in the book. For this reason, it is quite fundamentally literally to determine the subject and object of study.

If the teacher gave you a very immense topic or gave you the chance to choose the topic of the essay yourself, we advise you to choose on one small question that you can see on several pages.

 Work with literature

The analytical essay is very brief, in order to give a large number of quotations and refer to various authors, as is done in abstracts and similar works. And yet, it must necessarily contain references to sources. If this is a test of scientific work, then it is possible to refer to influential scientists and their works. In the case of an analytical essay on a book or a movie, these sources have every chance to make influential publications, writers, film critics, etc. At the given turn, it is necessary for you to learn how not only the object of analysis itself goes in the footsteps, but also what is actually talking about it. With quotes, your essay will become more absolute and detailed, in fact, that every time it functions better for the reader.

When you compile an analytical essay, do not forget, in fact that even in great works like a thesis, giant quotes are not welcome. As a result, find short and capacious expressions and carefully rewrite them even before you start writing an essay. Also remember about the fact that you need to write out the details of any book or notes that you refer to in the essay.  

 The general structure of the analytical essay plan is as follows:

introductory part;
main part:
thesis, analysis, argument;
thesis, analysis, argument;
thesis, analysis, argument;
final part.   

 Fill in this framework with certain data, writing in the introductory part the leading statement of your work (thesis), which you will argue. Also write down theses and arguments for the lead. Now, it only remains for you to paint in detail any pair of thesis argument, study it and add some enticing details (statistics, situation, outline supervision, etc.).

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?