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"Essays" redirects here. For other uses, see
Essays (disambiguation).
John Locke's 1690
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal
point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including:
literary criticism, political
manifestos, learned
arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an
article and a
short story. Almost all modern essays are written in
prose, but works in
verse have been dubbed essays (e.g.
Alexander Pope's
An Essay on Criticism and
An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like
John Locke's
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and
Thomas Malthus's
An Essay on the Principle of Population are counterexamples.
In some countries (e.g., in the United States), essays have become a major part of formal
education. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills, and
admission essays are often used by
universities in selecting applican...
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