Friday, February 5, 2010

Essay, essay, essay, ese?

I literally started loling when I decided to search up the meaning of "essay" on urbandictionary.com ; it was a classic approach to the hook of an essay and it definitely made my blog more interesting.

The results considered the following:

1. essay
def: useless work used to torture billions of kids in the world
Jimmy had to do his long essay instead of playing outside with his friends.

2. essay
def: how a moron spells ese.
An essay is something you write for school, not a Mexican.

3. essay
def: a waste of time that MLA and APA supporters believe is not colossal enough in its time wasting ability . used by professors whose sole dream it is to stop students from slacking off from the weekend. goes well with coffee.

I can't believe Mr. Smith just gave us that huge fucking essay! He's out of his mind.


Jimmy, you can't go to the senior prom until you finish writing that essay.

Hilarious, right? So, from a student's point of a view an essay is torture but I think it depends on the topic. If it's something that is interesting, an essay is an expression of one's thoughts and opinions. It's a form of five paragraphs consisted of five or more coherent sentences that give concrete details about the topic. There's the intro, at least three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. An essay is quite strict. All sentences should have correct grammar, punctuation, and should always contain a subject and verb. Usually essays are more formal instead of colloquial because the formality shows the topic a certain respect. Also, an essay should contain concise language so that the reader is able to understand the topic easily and also get a hint of a writer's style.





1 comment:

  1. hahah, slap on the knee. URBANDICTIONARY<3 gotta enjoy that first definition! (2nd one was pretty silly too) ;D
    How interesting or torturing an essay is does depend on the topic, but I also think it's about one's attitude. If we look at it in a positive light then maybe it'll go well(:

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