Drafting Essay: Content
The content of an essay is precisely focused on one issue. It should have a clear point—thesis—and it
should assert the viewpoint on an issue—in the body paragraphs—in a way that is
both logical and valid. Often, ethos,
logos, and pathos are used in academic writing to strengthen the argument being
made, but in the end, clear, assertive, and logically flowing content is what
will persuade an audience to your side.
QUESTIONS
ELIMINATE
QUESTIONS
Inexperienced
writers will often include questions in various places in a writing. This serves as a way for them to generate
their topic. However, this is not
supposed to be done in the finished product.
A mature writer will ask questions and come up with the answers to those
questions in an outline or early draft.
By the time the final draft is in its formation, all
questions are removed from the paragraphs and only focused, guided
sentences remain, letting the audience know the author’s exact viewpoint…instead
of having the author ask questions so that he can find his viewpoint. Therefore, it is important for you to eliminate
questions from your final writing pieces.
If you want
to ask yourself questions during a Brainstorming session or when creating the
first version of your outline, this is fine.
However, by the time you turn in an outline to your instructor, there
should be no questions in the content. Afterall,
you would have to eliminate them on the next stage of writing—the rough draft—anyway,
or you might forget and leave them in accidentally. Asking questions—of yourself—is a great way
to start gathering your ideas on a topic.
Once you begin putting the content into an outline or draft, though, questions
should be eliminated so that there is a clear focus and direction. For additional information about questions
in writing, visit this link: https://learnessaystrategies.blogspot.com/2019/10/eliminate-questions.html.
Good writers are concise and precise, weeding out
unnecessary words and choosing the exact word to convey meaning. Precise
words — active verbs, concrete nouns, specific adjectives — help the
reader visualize the sentence. Good writers use adjectives sparingly and
adverbs rarely, letting their nouns and verbs do the work.
SLANG
ELIMINATE
SLANG
Slang is
language that is being modified in the current culture and is not part of
Standard English clarity rules. This means
that not everyone will understand idioms,
colloquialisms, jargon,
oxymorons,
or lingo. Furthermore, they are not
concepts that will always make sense or be as precise as Standard English. Clichés
are one form of slang that can become confusing to readers based on overuse and
under-comprehension of the phrase and therefore must be removed form academic
writing. Be sure to eliminate all slang
terminology from your writing. For more
information on slang
elimination, visit this link: https://learnstandardenglish.blogspot.com/p/slang.html.
CONTRACTIONS
ELIMINATE
CONTRACTIONS
Academic
writing strives to write as closely to Standard English as possible. This means that ‘real
words’ from the English language are what will be included in your
content. You will not use slang or
abbreviated words—such as contractions—when crafting academic writing. Contractions are created when two real words
have been modified to make one shortened word consisting of most of the letters
from the original words, with an apostrophe filling in the space for missing
content. For example: I did not go
to the store today might be alternately written as I didn’t go to
the store today. When writing
informally, contractions may be considered acceptable; however, in formal
writing, academic writing, contractions must be eliminated to maintain the
highest level of academic writing. For additional information about contractions,
visit this link: https://learnessaystrategies.blogspot.com/2019/02/formal-writing-voice.html.
WEBSITE
LINKS
Learn more about essay STRUCTURE: https://learnessaywriting.blogspot.com/
Learn more about essay CONTENT: https://learnessaystrategies.blogspot.com/
Learn more about essay FORMAT: https://fgc-enc1210.blogspot.com/
Learn more about STANDARD ENGLISH: http://learnstandardenglish.blogspot.com/
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