How to Write Essays for Bank and Other Competitive Exams
Before reading this post, read Introduction of Essay Writing Here.
While writing expository essay, you must link logically all the
different aspects of the process or phenomena that you choose to
describe. In the reflective essay, adopt a balanced approach. If you are
writing an essay on "Should India make an atom bomb" take a stand for
or against. Put your explanation in a logical manner, show awareness of
the opinion of the opposing side (as in a debate); counter the opposing
arguments "to justify your stand and come to conclusion that supports
the stand you have taken.
In an imaginative essay, let your imagination take over, because you
have no experience of the situation or position you have taken. Be
consistent in your explanation and logical in your arguments.
As we have already discussed, writing an essay is not merely adding one
sentence to another. You may write very good sentences, but the problem
is how to arrange them logically. The best solution to this problem is
to look at sentences as parts of the overall plan of an essay. In other
words, instead of beginning with sentences, we should think of the
entire essay and then break it down into paragraphs and then into
sentences. Thus essay writing is a systematic process involving the
following steps.
Preparation ---------> Planning -------------> Drafting
In our next post we shall discuss about them in detail.. All the best and happy reading :)