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This document provides guidelines for essay writing, emphasizing the importance of a clear thesis statement, understanding different types of essays (expository, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative), and the structure of an essay including introduction, body, and conclusion. It also outlines the pre-writing process, which includes brainstorming and preparing, as well as the necessity of referencing to avoid plagiarism. Overall, it serves as a comprehensive guide for engineers to effectively communicate their ideas through essays.

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CE23-Module3

This document provides guidelines for essay writing, emphasizing the importance of a clear thesis statement, understanding different types of essays (expository, descriptive, persuasive, and narrative), and the structure of an essay including introduction, body, and conclusion. It also outlines the pre-writing process, which includes brainstorming and preparing, as well as the necessity of referencing to avoid plagiarism. Overall, it serves as a comprehensive guide for engineers to effectively communicate their ideas through essays.

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Communication for Engineers

Module 3: Guidelines for Essay Writing


An “Essay” is a common style in writing. Although there are different types of essays, they
follow the same structure. There are three main things to consider before writing your essay:
thesis statement, type, and audience. However, the most important is the thesis which is the core
of what the essay is all about. You should always identify your thesis statement before writing. A
thesis statement is generally a sentence or two that summarizes the main point of an essay.
The best practice is to include your thesis statement as soon as possible, even in your topic
sentence if it’s appropriate. You’ll want to reiterate it throughout the essay as well, especially in
the conclusion. The rest of your essay, then, supports your thesis.
Types of Essays
There are four main types of essays. Knowing them and their usages is important for any writer.
Expository
Expository writing's main purpose is to explain. Its purpose is to expand the reader’s knowledge.
It is a subject-oriented writing style, in which authors focus on telling you about a given topic or
subject without providing their personal opinions. This type of essay provides readers with
related facts but does not include author’s opinion. This is one of the most common types of
writing. You always see it in textbooks and how-to articles. The author just tells you about a
given subject, such as how to do something.

 It usually explains something in a process.


 It is often equipped with facts and figures.
 It is usually in a logical order and sequence.
Descriptive
Descriptive writing's main purpose is to describe. It is a style of writing that focuses on
describing a character, an event, or a place in great detail. It can be poetic when the author takes
the time to be very specific in his or her descriptions.

 It is often poetic in nature


 It describes places, people, events, situations, or locations in a highly-detailed manner.
 The author visualizes what he or she sees, hears, tastes, smells, and feels.
Persuasive or argumentative
Persuasive writing's main purpose is to convince. Unlike expository writing, persuasive writing
contains the opinions and biases of the author. To convince others to agree with the author's
point of view, persuasive writing contains justifications and reasons. It is often used in letters of
complaint, advertisements or commercials, affiliate marketing pitches, cover letters, and
newspaper opinion and editorial pieces.

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 Persuasive writing is equipped with reasons, arguments, and justifications.
 In persuasive writing, the author takes a stand and asks you to agree with his or her point
of view.
 It often asks for readers to do something about the situation (this is called a call-to-
action).
Narrative
Narrative writing's main purpose is to tell a story. The author will create different characters and
tell you what happens to them (sometimes the author writes from the point of view of one of the
characters—this is known as first person narration). Novels, short stories, novellas, poetry, and
biographies can all fall in the narrative writing style. Simply, narrative writing answers the
question: “What happened then?”

 A person tells a story or event.


 Has characters and dialogue.
 Has definite and logical beginnings, intervals, and endings.
 Often has situations like actions, motivational events, and disputes or conflicts with their
eventual solutions.
These are the four different types of writing that are generally used. There are many sub-types of
writing that may fall in any of those categories. A writer must know all these styles in order to
identify the purpose of his or her own writing and make sure it's something the audience wants to
read.
Pre-Writing
Brainstorming
It is the first stage that helps to collect your thoughts before you begin writing. It is a stage where
you can generate ideas relevant to the thesis for the essay.
Preparing
The preparation phase consists of both outlining your essay and collecting resources for
evidence. Using the outcomes of your brainstorming stage. First, screen and isolate the ideas that
are essential to support your thesis and then organize them in a logical and progressive order.
Drafting
This is the main stage of essay writing where you write your first draft. Remember that
everything doesn’t have to be perfect; this is your first draft, not your final draft, so give yourself
the freedom to make errors.

Essay structure
Introduction

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The introduction is an essential part of any essay. It acquaints the readers what to expect. The
main objectives of an introduction are to catch your readers’ attention, give background on the
topic, and present the thesis statement which is the central point of your essay. By the end of
your introduction paragraph, your reader should know what your essay is all about.
Body
The bulk of your essay is body paragraphs which provide support to the thesis through wide
varieties of evidence.
How you organize your body paragraphs make a big difference. Follow a logical progression in
which one point leads to a second, and that second point leads to a third. Remember that the
readers are not as expert as you about the topic, so structure your paragraphs in a way to avoid
confusion and to enhance readers’ understanding.
If your essay is an argumentative one where you compare and contrast two points of view, do the
following: you present your argument first and then share opposing points of view, then provide
evidence that support your point and disprove counterpoint.
Conclusion
Essay conclusions summarize your thesis statement in a way that’s easy for the reader to retain.
The conclusion should not provide new data or supporting evidence.
Referencing and Bibliography
Plagiarism is the pretending of someone else’s ideas and writing as your own. It is stealing
someone's work and claiming it as your own. It is completely unethical and unacceptable. To
avoid any suspicion of plagiarism you should rephrase the ideas in your own words and provide
clear references for any borrowings ideas or facts from other authors.

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