Types of essays

Informative, descriptive, explanatory, critical

1. Expository in the newspapers tells about things we didnt previously know
2. Personal tells about personal experience holiday, etc
3. Persuasive (argumentative) (ubeditelno) to persuade sb of my arguments da ubedia
sb v moite argumenti
4. Review (pregled na opr. tvorba); research (nau4ni eseta); Literary review of a
literary work
Elements of the argumentative essay
1. Introduction - Predstavia sadarjanieto na eseto, dava kratko vavedenie kam temata i
spomenatava kakvi to4no argumenti shte izpolzvash; definira sadarjanieto na eseto. Ne
triabva da e obsho kazano I neiasno, ami kratko, iasno, kadeto iasno zaiaviavash za
kakvo shte pishesh I kakva e posiciata ti. Tova vavedenie moje da e 5 10 izre4enia.
2. Thesis (tvardenie) sastoi se ot dve 4asti
Observation (tvardenie) Smoking in the schoolyard should be forbidden
Analysis Why do I think that this is important Zashto e neobhodima vaobshte da se
zanimavam s tazi tema
Ne e vajno samo da tvardish neshto,amo I da dokajesh po kakav nachin tova tvardenie e vajno
za 4itatelite.
3. Evidence dokazatelstva tova moje da e: citati ot statistiki i drugi nau4ni
prou4vania, statisti4ni danni (zaboliavania), psihologi4esko vlianie, primeri ot
vestnici, internet no samo ot nadejdni izto4nici na kraia na eseto se poso4vat
vsi4ki izto4nici, koito si polzval po azbu4en red. I nikakvo prepisvane ot internet
tova e nai-lesnoto da se prosledi
Tvoite dokazatelstva triabva da se stepenuvat po zna4enie- parvo idvat nai-vajnite, a nainakraia po-malovajnite. Vav vseki paragraf idva edno dokazatelstvo, koeto e predstaveno
iasno, obiasneno i nai-nakraia interpretirano kakvo e negovoto zna4enie, zashto to ima
takava tejest i t.n.
Moje da se poso4at i protivopolojni mnenia, no triabva da stane iasno, 4e ti gi davash v tvoia
text samo za da gi oborish, 4e te ne sa iasni, viarni ili 4e 4ovek ne moje da se opre
Sled kato tvoite argumenti sa dadeni napalno, sledva zakliu4enie.
Dokazatelstvata moje da sa pod formata na direktni citati vinagi davai otkade si gi vzel; pod
formata na perifrazirane da dadesh s tvoi dumi kazanoto niakoi drug pak triabva d ase
poso4i otkade si gi vzel kniga, avtor, izdatelstvo, godina
pod formata na summary s tvoi dumi da dadesh ideite na niakoi drug pak se dava izto4nik.
4. Conclusion tova ne e prosto edno povtorenie na vavedenieto s razli4ni dumi, a e
obobshtavashto kato cialo, sas silni dumi i izrazi, koito sumirat tvoite argumenti, za da
dadat nai-dobrata podkrepa na eseto. Ne se vavejdat novi argumenti, a kratko i iasno
se rezumirat ve4e kazanite, za da se oforni edno hubavo zakliu4enie, koeto
sashtevremenno dava i glednata to4ka na pi6e6tia.

Vseki argument, introduction ili conclusion, vaobshte vsiaka nova misal idva v eseto pod
formata na nov paragraf. V tozi paragraf zaiaviavash v na4aloto tvoia argument (ako napr. si
na pat da dokazvash tvardenieto ti), dava dokazatelsvtata, koito sa relevantni, obobshtava gi i
sintezira i nai-nakraia zakliu4ava vajnostta im.

Zaglavieto na eseto se pishe s glavni bukvi all nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs
without prepositions, articles
Do not use I, but WE instead

Grammar:
Tenses:
1. Use past tense to tell about past events, historical events etc
2. Use present tense to state facts, to discuss your own ideas or the ideas of somebody
else expressed in his/her work. Use present tense to describe an action in a literary
work, movie. Change the present tense only where it is necessary to speak about the
past or to speak about past events whose results are in the present It is the best book
he has written until now.
3. To express a future action use future tense or the possibilities to speak about the future
will, shall, is going to, are about to
Vocabulary
Introductory words:
However (vse pak), still (vse oshte), furthermore (oshte pove4e), meanwhile
(mejduvremenno)
Introductory sentences stars with: after, although, as, because, before, if, since, though, until,
when
Vocabulary for an explanation paragraph
cause
Result
because
Since
since
Thus
As a result of
Consequently
Is due to
It follows that
Helper words
Ocenka
Good/bad
Correct/incorrect
Moral/immporal
Right/wrong

Recommendation
Suggest
Recommend
Advise
Argue

Important/trivial

Point of view

Personal opinion

In my opinion
belief
Idea, understanding
I think that
I consider
I believe
it seems to me
I prefer

Like/dislike
Hope
Feel