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1. HOW TO WRITE AN ESSAY

2. The very first thing you should do is to
understand what an essay is?

3. Essay is an organized collection of YOUR
IDEAS about literary texts nicely written and
professionally presented.

4. What do we mean by saying “nicely
written”?

5. Essay must be well organized and
presented in a way that the reader finds
easy to follow.

6. What is the purpose of an essay?

7. It shows your ability to talk, to think, and to
write.
This is where you learn to write
professionally.

8. How to do it?

9. Organize and make the structure clearly
visible that reader can easily follow and
understand the way of your thoughts

10. Make in the way that can be adduced in the
form of quotations to back up your
arguments.

11. Make it look tidy!

12. Where to start?

13. The very first task is collecting material

14. How to collect material?

15. Firstly they are divided into
two sources.

16. Primary sources are
literary texts:
the actual material that
you work on.

17. Secondary sources
are works of criticism.

18. Remember:
It is always better to read an original text
and refer to it than to read and refer to a
critic.

19. Why to use critics then?

20. The answer is: to be disagreed with

21. Do not re-invent the wheel. It was already
done years ago.

22. Remember: never quote a critic just to agree
with him or her!

23. Develop your ideas relaying on thoughts of
critic.

24. Books are not usually much use.
You gain no special merit points for having
read them, because so has everyone else.

25. Use articles!
They are full of interesting, original, and up-
to-date ideas about literary texts, that,
maybe, your examiner won't even have
heard.

26. Use the Web!
It's easily available, full of material, and
answers to every question.

27. When you have found all the
materials and you are going to
read them, follow next rules:

28. Always make notes.

29. Write only one idea per page.

30. File and rewrite the notes so you can find
them again

31. Make a bibliography.

32. Every single book and article
you read should be in this list!

33. In a year or two you will say thanks to this
booklist.

34. Now you have done all the preparations.

35. Great!
Grab a cookie!

36. What to do next?

37. Write the essay.
Easy and painlessly because you've done
most of the thinking already.

38. How should an essay
look like?

39. The plan you construct should be in the
form of an indented outline.
Main heading
subheading 1
notes on subheading 1

40. The paragraph should:
be at least a ⅓ to half a page
have a topic sentence, near the beginning

41. An essay should be 1500-2000 words long.

42. Now you are ready for presentation.

43. And remember:

44. YOUR IDEAS
about literary texts are what matters.
And…

45. Always put the reader first.

46. Or…

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