What makes an essay good? There are many elements that go into a well written comprehensible paper. A quality essay contains elements such as description and detail, thesis statement, exemplification, irony, and knowledge of your audience. A good essay is one that grabs the imagination of the reader. Anyone can write a quality essay following simple guidelines and steps.
I think that description and detail are one of the most important elements in writing an essay. If you have good description and supporting details you will develop and present a word picture for your reader. This makes for a far more interesting story. In ?Thirty Eight Who Saw Murder Didn?t Call The Police?, the author Martin Gansberg got the story across in a descriptive way. He told the story three times with all different details leading up to the same ending. He wrote it so that the stabbing was clear and you could picture Catherine Genovese laying there at her apartment doorway, ?At the second door, 82-62 Austin Street, he saw her slumped on the floor at the foot of the stairs.
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English: Diagram from the essay "Printing" in "Art...(Pg. 99)? If you don?t have a good thesis your paper will not have structure. A thesis is always more than a title; it is an announcement of your intent or statement of fact. Although a descriptive title orients your readers, it is seldom detailed enough to reveal your essay?s purpose or direction. The essay ?On Fire? has a well-written thesis that covers the whole essay. ?You learn that you are only human flesh, not Superman, and that you can burn like a candle. (Pg. 243)? Another writing tool to make an essay good would be to have exemplification. Exemplification uses a single extended example or series of shorter examples to support the thesis. If you support your...