The favorite essay I have ever written happened to be my History 114 final. I was asked to compare the Roman Empire along with the Chinese empire. I knew a lot about this topic which made it very easy for me to think of material to write.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
What is an essay?
There is more to the word "essay" than most people know. To students, the word "essay" typically means a paper they must compose, that they will be constructively criticized or assigned a grade. However, this is only one meaning of the word when it is looked at as a noun. You may also use the word "essay" as a verb. Essay means to try, attempt, or put something to trial. Before this assignment, I never knew double meaning to this word. I think it would be interesting if I saw an example of someone using the word "essay" as a verb.
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I was definitely one of those students who thought that an essay was just a paper you wrote, I had no idea that it was also a verb. I too would like to see someone use essay as a verb lol.
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