ENGLISH III 1ST ASSIGNMENT

AN EASY WAY TO MAKE AN ESSAY

Name: Rani Ersalina Trisnawati

Class: Accounting 3/ 2011
ID Number: 008201100039

Mr. Marc

President university
Jababeka education park Jalan ki hajar dewantara
Cikarang

The word Essay coming from the term Assay which means to try, try to explain
people, method, and everything that can be explained. Essay needs at least five
paragraphs that consist of one introductory paragraph, three main body paragraphs and
one concluding paragraph. Introductory is the introduction of the essay consists of
general knowledge, anecdote, quotation, facts, statistic, and the last sentence of
introductory paragraph is consisting of thesis statement that has function as the main
point of the essay. A good essay cannot ask question in the essay itself because essay
is to explain not to ask question. In essay do not forget about SPA (subject, purpose,
and audience) what or who the subject, what the purpose of writing, and who the
audience of the essay is. In essay make sure to make a close thesis not open thesis
because close thesis is simple and already specified and make the writer can write
more focus to the topic. To write a good essay there are three main steps pre-writing
90%, writing 5%, and revising or editing 5%.
Pre-writing are the first and the most important step in making essay, it is easy to
produce a good pre-writing by having the right step: generating ideas, editing the list,
and planning. In generating ideas all of the ideas is gathered and do not think about
which one is good and which one is bad, do not rejecting the ideas that come to the
essay accept all of the ideas that come to the generating ideas step. Some popular
methods of generating ideas are by brainstorming, clustering, free-writing and keep a
journal. Second, by editing list and start thinking about the purpose of the essay and
why the people make essay, when the purpose of the essay found, people will know the
one of the ideas that need to be eliminated is the sentence that cannot be related to the
focus of the topic. And the last step is planning by making a simple outline of the ideas
that already been generated and edited in the previous step. Making a simple outline
will guide the process of making an essay. When the three processes finished, it will be
easy to making an essay.
Writing process is the second process after pre-writing process. This process will
make the sentence longer and longer up to the end until it form a paragraph. Paragraph
is consists of three main parts: topic sentence, supporting sentence, and concluding
sentence. Topic sentence is the main point of the paragraph that stated in the first
sentence and should be written in one clear sentence; make sure the sentence is
relevant with the thesis statement from the introductory. The topic sentence will help the
writer to focusing the writer mind in one way. Next is supporting sentence that have
function to add some detail information, evidence and argument of the main point of the
paragraph, supporting sentence must support and related to the main point of the
paragraph. The last is concluding paragraph which has function to summarize,
concluding and retell the main point of the first sentence of the paragraph and make
sure the concluding sentence have the same point from the topic sentence. .
The last process of making an essay is revising the essay. Revising come from
the word vision which means see and prefix re- which means again, from that word
revising means see again the essay that already finished which means people must
read over the essay and make sure that all of the sentence are relevant from the topic
and there is a clear topic sentence in the essay. People must read over their essay
because it is impossible for all of the people to make a perfect essay in one try. In the

revising there is step that called as editing; editing is the final process of the revision
step. Before we edit the essay we need to know which one is needed to be edited by
reading the essay and search the sentence that needed to be repaired, removed, and
edited. Editing is activities such as add new ideas in the essay that will make the essay
better and support the topic sentence on the essay, re-arrange ideas for the
improvement of the essay, eliminate irrelevant sentence, looking for and correcting
mistake in grammar, spelling, and punctuation in essay. When the there is no other
thing that can be replace, repair and editing it means that the essay is finished.
Clearly, the process of making an essay is easy by using Pre-writing, writing, and
revising step. When the people know how to write an essay easily, there will be a lot of
people that like to write an essay. Always practice in making an essay will make the
essay better than before like the people said, practice makes perfect.

Reference
- Ready to write more by Karen Blanchard, Christine root; second
edition.