Essay Writing

Essay writing is sometimes included on the MELICET Test.

Here is what examiners look for in a well-written discursive essay:

1) The essay should be well organized. Essays should have the following parts:

Written essays should have clear introductions with background information.
English essays should contain an introduction that has an "overview" or thesis statement, explaining what your essay is going to discuss.
The essay writing should be well organized, demonstrating high-level English language skills.
Essay papers should also have a strong conclusion, which may require a suggestion or recommendation.

2) Essays should demonstrate "task fulfillment." That is to say, essay papers must completely answer the question that is asked. For this reason, essay planning is important, so you may wish to make an essay outline or essay notes when you are considering how to write a college essay.

Consider this example, which is one of many possible informative essay topics:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of internet communication?

If you give only advantages when writing a essay for this question, you will score very poorly because you have only answered HALF of the essay question!

3) Your written English language should demonstrate good English language range. This means that you use a wide variety of sentence structures. Don't always use the subject-verb-object sentence structure! Use compound and complex sentences.

Good English language range also means that you have used higher-level vocabulary in your essay writing.

4) Your essay should also display a high-level of English language accuracy. In other words, your must use correct grammar in your essay writing.

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