1. What Makes an Essay an Essay

2. Essay is defined as a short piece of composition written from a writer’s point of view that is most commonly linked to an article or a short story. It is derived from the French word essayer meaning “to try” and was first characterized as an attempt to point out something through writing.

3. Aldous Huxley, one of the leading essayists of the century, described an essay as a literary device that is used for saying almost everything about anything. Huxley further explained the three worlds in which an essay lives namely personal, objective and abstract-universal.

4. Personal field sets an effort to write based on the author’s experience and accounts. Objective essay put the definition on one subject other than the author’s self but give essays that are in the themes of science and politics. Hiding what the content of the essay is all about highly illustrates the abstract- universal to which most essayists attain to master.

5. A set of guidelines should be followed in order to write a good essay recommended for the requirements of the curriculum that will help ensure the coherency and consistency of the manuscript. Depending on the type of the essay one is required to write about, one should maintain a good sentence constructing, correct tense of the verb and accurate use of grammar and punctuations on every page. 

6. A good essay should provide the following:  An introduction that sets the mood or the aura of the essay and provide the main points of the paper;  A body of the essay that delivers all the supporting details of the essay and bind the series of information clearly; and  A conclusion that summarizes the essay’s main point and the consequences or the impact of the essay to the current situation.