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 * Innovative ELT Techniques -The All in One Essay Writing Guide By Suna TOPUZ **

This article includes some tips which students should consider while writing essays. The writer states that good writing requires paying attention on word choice and structure of essay. She focuses on mainly not only the artistic side but also the structural side of writing a quality essay. I agree with the writer generally whereas I have different ideas at some points. What the writer refers to with the artistic side of preparing an essay is being good at word choice. She emphasizes that words have an essential effects on the reader from some views and that’s why we should be careful about choosing the best suitable vocabulary items in essay. In this way, I share exactly the same opinion with the writer in that we should consider words thoroughly to attract the reader’s attention.

The writer claims that the other necessity aspect so that we can evaluate a writing as a quality essay is structure. By making a beautiful comparison “an essay with no structure is like a human-body without a skeleton”, she indicates what extent important to generate a structure in an essay. As I think as well, first sentence in a paragraph should include the main idea called as topic sentence about the topic. And then the following sentences should provide details and supporting ideas, and may be examples. I think all essays consist of introduction, main body and conclusion as the writer has stated as well.

She has formed an interesting relationship between introduction-main body-conclusion and future-present-past. According to her, conclusion represents past while introduction is reflective of future. But I do not agree with her about this issue. Introduction can be related to past since it is more likely to include the ideas which the reader are familiar with already, in other names past knowledge whereas it might supply some new ideas, deductions and suggestions for the reader by considering we can relate the conclusion part with future.

I n a well-structured essay, there should be a chronological order between the events. The most important points should be given at first whereas the least important points should be presented at the end in order to help the reader remember these points more easily if we consider that we, people, focus on usually first things in a speech or writing. To sum up, writing a good essay means take into consideration some points such as word choice, writing in a structural and chronological way. The way of a well-designed writing is based on writing by practicing the techniques above.