What are some pointers for essay writing?
Do not announce Do not address the reader Do not repeat DO NOT ASSUME: in a literary essay, you need to provide background information and detail for your reader BEFORE you get to the main points. Provide a summary so the reader knows what you are talking about. Provide transition between ideas and between paragraphs. Go beyond the plain old First, second, third, finally Always identify the author and story/poem you are writing about In Kathy Songs Lost Sister, In the movie The Joy Luck Club, which was based on a book by Amy Tan In Amy Tans The Joy Luck Club Study wordiness in your Little, Brown Handbook. Do the exercises. Put titles of short works in quotation marks (poems, short stories, essays) Put titles of longer works in italics OR underlining (movies, plays, books, magazines) Words to avoid: portray thing due to fact that Aspect of NOWADAYS in this day and age back in the day A lot Say exactly what you mean. Do not try to sound fancy. MEANING comes first. The introduction with t
