Essay Writing

What this lesson covers

Essay Writing is a 11-part Class 10 English lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.

How it begins

An essay presents a thesis (a central claim) and defends it with evidence and reasoning. Before writing anything, state your thesis in one sentence. If you cannot, you are not ready to begin, and the essay will wander. The test for every paragraph: does this advance the thesis? If it could be deleted without weakening the case, it should be.

The 11 parts

1. An essay defends a position
2. Reading the question correctly
3. Planning under time pressure
4. Paragraph structure that scores
5. Introductions and conclusions
6. Conceding to strengthen
7. Editing in the last five minutes
8. Where essay skills transfer
9. Where marks are lost
10. What to remember
11. Watch one worked through