Elements of the Five Literary Forms
ELEMENTS OF AN ESSAY
1. Focus
Your essay must have a purpose, which has clearly defined and effectively communicated. This is the focus of your essay. Your essay must fulfil the requirements for the purpose it is trying to accomplish. In addition, your work must be well balanced; you should neither do too much in the essay, nor mark your goals too limited and inconsequential. Also, the needs, interests and expectations of your readers should be considered and met.
2. Content Considering your controlling purpose, you ought to discover whether there is adequate support and whether your essay development fulfils the commitment started or implied by the controlling purpose. What supporting details or evidence you have provided and how adequate they are is equally important. All your details, evidence, or counter arguments should not only relate clearly to your controlling purpose, but should have the purpose of strengthening the essay.
3. Organization
Both the focus and content are strengthened and enhanced by the organization of the essay, which must follow an overall organization strategy. You may want to test the effectiveness of such strategy by outlining or summarizing your essay. The organization of your essay must follow logically the commitment established by your controlling purpose. You must insure that your readers will be able to follow the organization and easily make sense of it. Furthermore, you should ask yourself whether or not your introduction and your conclusion could more effectively open and close your essay.
ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY
1. Setting
This is the time and location in which a story takes place. For some stories the setting is very important, while for others it is not. There are several aspects of a story's setting to consider when examining how setting contributes to a story (some, or all, may be present in a story).
a. Place – Where is the action of the story taking place?
b. Time - When is the story taking place?
c.
1. Focus
Your essay must have a purpose, which has clearly defined and effectively communicated. This is the focus of your essay. Your essay must fulfil the requirements for the purpose it is trying to accomplish. In addition, your work must be well balanced; you should neither do too much in the essay, nor mark your goals too limited and inconsequential. Also, the needs, interests and expectations of your readers should be considered and met.
2. Content Considering your controlling purpose, you ought to discover whether there is adequate support and whether your essay development fulfils the commitment started or implied by the controlling purpose. What supporting details or evidence you have provided and how adequate they are is equally important. All your details, evidence, or counter arguments should not only relate clearly to your controlling purpose, but should have the purpose of strengthening the essay.
3. Organization
Both the focus and content are strengthened and enhanced by the organization of the essay, which must follow an overall organization strategy. You may want to test the effectiveness of such strategy by outlining or summarizing your essay. The organization of your essay must follow logically the commitment established by your controlling purpose. You must insure that your readers will be able to follow the organization and easily make sense of it. Furthermore, you should ask yourself whether or not your introduction and your conclusion could more effectively open and close your essay.
ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY
1. Setting
This is the time and location in which a story takes place. For some stories the setting is very important, while for others it is not. There are several aspects of a story's setting to consider when examining how setting contributes to a story (some, or all, may be present in a story).
a. Place – Where is the action of the story taking place?
b. Time - When is the story taking place?
c.