Literary Essay Format and Tips

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Literary Essay

• Literary Essay Format and Tips

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THE PURPOSE of Literary Essays
Any literary essay has the task to analyze,
carefully examine and eventually evaluate a
literary work or aspects and elements of a
literary work.
And most importantly Every essay has a central
idea or THESIS about the literary work that
should be elaborated and developed throughout the
essay itself.
In order to make this analysis successful the
subject of the essay should be broken down into
its component parts.
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The MAIN PRINCIPLES of Literary Essays
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Before you ask yourself how to write a literary
essay, You need to know that every essay must
cover the topic or literary work that is written
about. Every essay must have a central idea
(thesis).
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• Every essay must be organized in a way that every
  part is enabling readers to gain more
  understanding of the central idea.

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FIRST STEP Starting to Write
Literary essay writing begins with the act of
reading!

• Therefore before you start to read a literary
  work you should have a set of questions and main
  notes that will guide you through the reading
  process.

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FIRST STEP Starting to Write
TIPS!

• Here you can find some examples of these
  questions and tips in order to start the writing.
• If you are still not sure how to begin your
  essay, you can find more details in this article
  from the Harvard College Writing Center.
• You can find more Litearay Essay Tips on our web
  site.

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Elements of Literary Essays
You can find more Litearay Essay Help here.
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ESSAY Title

• In every literary essay writing the title should
  describe the approach and the main thesis of the
  author and at the same time get the attention of
  the readers. The title itself should not only
  represent the title of the literary work, because
  it can misdirect readers.

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PROBLEM or Question

• In this part the author explains what will be
  clarified and what idea will be developed in the
  essay. The main role in the first paragraphs of
  an essay is to clearly establish the problem or
  question.
• It is important to address the problem or
  question by respecting the literary essay format.

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PROBLEM or Question

• In order to gain the readers interest in this
  first part, the author can use a quotation, a
  provocative question, a brief anecdote, or a
  combination of these.
• Also it is necessary to include the title of the
  literate work and the name of its author.

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THESIS

• The main idea or thesis is not same as a topic,
  which represents only a subject area of the
  essay. A good thesis has to be arguable in a
  way that it is distinguished from a fact or a
  assumption.
• Ordinary, the thesis statement is presented at
  the end of the introductory paragraph.

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EVIDENCE

• Material evidence are used to confirm the thesis
  and help in exploring the thesis more into
  details. Authors should also consider and include
  counter-evidence.
• The rule of two in written evidence The writer
  should supply at least two words of analysis for
  every word of a citation, and usually more.
• Textual evidence consists of summaries,
  quotations, specific details, and paraphrases.

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TOPIC Sentence

• Each paragraph should start off with a Topic
  Sentence, which helps in relating the details of
  the paragraph the main thesis and connects the
  details of the paragraph itself.
• Here you can find more Literary Essay Help.

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ANALYSIS and Reflection

• While writing a literary analysis essay the task
  is to emphasize significant details of the
  evidence and to highlight patterns that might
  otherwise be undetected.
• Although analysis is generally correlated to
  evidence, reflection is a process that builds
  upon analysis in order to support larger claims.

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CONCLUSION

• A conclusion gives essays a sense of completeness
  in order to let the readers know that they have
  come to the end of essay paper. It can summarize
  the thesis in different words, conclude the main
  points that have been made, or make a significant
  comment about the work from a new perspective.
• A conclusion should never bring up a new topic
  for the essay.

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STRUCTURE

• How the individual sections are organized and
  what kind of content flow is presented (either
  chronological or repetitive).
• There are different types and approaches to the
  structure itself, so you can find more
  information in the Berkeley Essay Structure and
  Citation Guidelines. You can also find different
  Literary Essay Samples.
• Also you can find out more from Yale College
  Writing Center.

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