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Essay Writing

The word "essay" comes from the French essai, a try or attempt. The essay is an attempt to communicate information, opinion, or feeling, and usually it presents an argument about a topic.

• CollegeBoard.com: College Essays - Writing Tips
  Includes, Sample College Essay Questions, Recipe for a Draft, and Three Steps to a Great College Essay.

  http://www.collegeboard.com/student/apply/essay-skills/index.html

• Essay Writing Resources
  This module introduces you to the process of essay writing - from analysing the question through to the final redrafting and editing.

  http://www.jcu.edu.au/office/tld/writingskills/essay/

• Writing Essay Exams
  Details how to create a well written answer to an essay question.

  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_essay.html

• How to write an essay
  Strategies for writing assessed essays in the first year and in the second year of an English course.

  http://www.english.bham.ac.uk/staff/tom/teaching/howto/essay.htm

• Writing Tips: Essay Builder
  Explores the parts and provides step-by-step directions for writing essays.

  http://www2.actden.com/Writ_den/tips/essay/index.htm

• Essays and Other Writing Activities for Early Writers
  For early writers, these one-page printouts - with writing prompts - should be enough writing space for a short essay. For more advanced writers, extra pieces of lined paper will be necessary to finish an essay.

  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/essay/

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