The Explanatory Dictionary defines the concept of "essay" as a small work related to the prose genre and not limited to a strict literary form. The structure of the essay may be different, but the goal remains the same: to express the author's views on a particular issue, to fix his thoughts on a particular problem. The essay by no means claims to be an exhaustive, scientifically accurate presentation of the topic. It is these features that the structure of writing an essay obeys.
This means that all the thoughts that the author wants to express in his essay should be presented in the form of brief abstracts. We remind you that a thesis is a judgment put forward by the author, which must be confirmed by detailed arguments. To put it simply, we can say that a thesis is a very brief summary of a more voluminous work (for example, a report or an abstract).
The structure of the essay implies that immediately after the thesis, expressing the main idea, should be followed by argumentation. Moreover, it is better if each thought expressed in a thesis is supported by two arguments.
Arguments are facts, evidence taken from life, scientific works,own research, etc.
The structure of the essay also implies that essays in this genre must have an introduction and a conclusion. The first indicates the problem, the second summarizes everything said in the essay.
Naturally, each thesis and each of its proofs should begin with a red line, and the stated thoughts should be formed into complete paragraphs, logically interconnected.
Thus, the graphical structure of the essay will look like this:
- Introduction indicating the topic of the essay.
- Thesis 1.
- Proof 1, Proof 2.
- Thesis 2.
- Proof 3, Proof 4.
- Conclusion.
A characteristic feature of an essay is the language. The text of an essay of this kind should be expressive, expressive, emotional. However, you need to remember another subtlety - the text should convey the psychological characteristics of the personality of the writer, so you should not be zealous with the use of overly colorful artistic means, if this is completely alien to the author. It is better to convey your thoughts in an essay with the help of short, clear sentences, different in emotional coloring and purpose of the statement.
Somewhat different requirements apply to an MBA essay. Usually the topic for such work is suggested by the teacher. Even a self-chosen theme must be coordinated with it.
The main thing in such an essay is to show your own, different vision of the problem. This means that arguments from scientific literature or well-known facts can (even should) not be used in such an essay. The main thing is to show your attitude to the problem, to find your own author's style, easy, intelligible, but convincing style. An essay, regardless of the topic, should be easy to read, understandable in content and very persuasive. An essay for this purpose can be written in a historical-biographical, fiction, philosophical or non-fiction style.
