NAME: Abbas abdullahi

DEPARTMENT: COMPUTER SCIENCE

LEVEL: 300L

MATRIC NUMBER: KPT/ODFel/CST/22/105

GNS ASSIGNMENT

Q1) Tips for Essay Writing.

Essay writing tips

-Start your essay early. This is the first tip for a reason. It’s one of the most important things you can do
to write a good essay. If you start it the night before, then you won’t have enough time to research,
brainstorm, and outline — and you surely won’t have enough time to review.

-Don’t try and write it in one sitting. It’s ok if you need to take breaks or write it over a few days. It’s
better to write it in multiple sittings so that you have a fresh mind each time and you’re able to focus.

-Always keep the essay question in mind. If you’re given an assigned question, then you should always
keep it handy when writing your essay to make sure you’re always working to answer the question.

-Use transitions between paragraphs. In order to improve the readability of your essay, try and make
clear transitions between paragraphs. This means trying to relate the end of one paragraph to the
beginning of the next one so the shift doesn’t seem random.

-Integrate your research thoughtfully. Add in citations or quotes from your research materials to back up
your thesis and main points. This will show that you did the research and that your thesis is backed up
by it.

Q2)LIST THE TYPES OF ESSAYS AND WRITE SHORT NOTES ON THEM EACH.

Types of essay

The listing;
Narrative essay

Persuasive essay

Descriptive essay

Argumentative essay

Expository essay and

Compare and contrast essay

Narrative Essay

This type of essay is almost like telling a story, not in the traditional sense with dialogue and characters,
but as if you’re writing out an event or series of events to relay information to the reader.

Persuasive Essay

Here, your goal is to persuade the reader about your views on a specific topic.

Descriptive Essay

This is the kind of essay where you go into a lot more specific details describing a topic such as a place or
an event.

Argumentative Essay

In this essay, you’re choosing a stance on a topic, usually controversial, and your goal is to present
evidence that proves your point is correct.

Expository Essay

Your purpose with this type of essay is to tell the reader how to complete a specific process, often
including a step-by-step guide or something similar.

Compare and Contrast Essay

You might have done this in school with two different books or characters, but the ultimate goal is to
draw similarities and differences between any two given subjects

Essay from another site

Analyse the question

Student essays are responses to specific questions. As an essay must address the question directly, your
first step should be to analyse the question. Make sure you know exactly what is being asked of you.

Generally, essay questions contain three component parts:

Content terms: Key concepts that are specific to the task

Limiting terms: The scope that the topic focuses on

Directive terms: What you need to do in relation to the content, e.g. discuss, analyse, define, compare,
evaluate

Define your argument

As you plan and prepare to write the essay, you must consider what your argument is going to be. This
means taking an informed position or point of view on the topic presented in the question, then defining
and presenting a specific argument

Use evidence, reasoning and scholarship

To convince your audience of your argument, you must use evidence and reasoning, which involves
referring to and evaluating relevant scholarship.

Evidence provides concrete information to support your claim. It typically consists of specific examples,
facts, quotations, statistics and illustrations.

Reasoning connects the evidence to your argument. Rather than citing evidence like a shopping list, you
need to evaluate the evidence and show how it supports your argument.
Scholarship is used to show how your argument relates to what has been written on the topic (citing
specific works). Scholarship can be used as part of your evidence and reasoning to support your
argument.

4. Organise a coherent essay

An essay has three basic components - introduction, body and conclusion.

Introduction

Body

Conclusion

5. Write clearly

An essay that makes good, evidence-supported points will only receive a high grade if it is written
clearly. Clarity is produced through careful revision and editing, which can turn a good essay into an
excellent one.

When you edit your essay, try to view it with fresh eyes – almost as if someone else had written it.

Ask yourself the following questions:

Overall structure

Have you clearly stated your argument in your introduction?

Does the actual structure correspond to the ‘road map’ set out in your introduction?

Have you clearly indicated how your main points support your argument?

Have you clearly signposted the transitions between each of your main points for your reader?

Paragraphs

Does each paragraph introduce one main idea?

Does every sentence in the paragraph support that main idea?

Does each paragraph display relevant evidence and reasoning?

Does each paragraph logically follow on from the one before it?

Sentences

Is each sentence grammatically complete?

Is the spelling correct?

Is the link between sentences clear to your readers?

Have you avoided redundancy and repetition?

Cite sources and evidence

Finally, check your citations to make sure that they are accurate and complete. Some faculties require
you to use a specific citation style (e.g. APA) while others may allow you to choose a preferred one.
Whatever style you use, you must follow its guidelines correctly and consistently. You can use Recite,
the University of Melbourne style guide, to check your citations.

Q3)IN YOUR OWN WORDS, DEFINE ESSAY WRITING.

And the last question in my own words

Essay writing refers to the act of writing about something or topic in order to express, expose or present
an information about the topic to the reader.
Essay writing refers to a piece of writing written to convince or inform the reader about a particular
topic.

Essay writing is a short piece of writing that shows the writer's point of view about something which
could be a topic, place or someone.