MY TAKE ON CSS ENGLISH ESSAY It is an open secret that writing standard English and grammatical accuracy play a vital role in succes...
MY TAKE ON CSS ENGLISH ESSAY
It is an open secret that writing standard English and grammatical accuracy play a vital role in success in essay writing for CSS Exam. You should know the art of literary and scholarly writing. It needs a long discussion to expatiate about improving written English but let me give you some rudimentary tips.
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A basic attribute which is to learn idiomatic usage in writing an essay should be developed. For earning grammatical accuracy in your written expression, one should study English grammar books thoroughly (not cursorily) to learn the correct usage of grammatical units i.e. verbs, adverbs, adjective, coordination, subordination, subject–verb agreement, phrasal verbs, etc.
There are two parts in Essay i.e. reading and writing. Reading quality books enhances one‘s vision and also increases the capability to write academically. As mentioned in earlier posts, there are a few diverse areas that need to be strengthened by every CSS Aspirant. Some of the resources are mentioned below that can help greatly.
WHAT YOU READ????
PART ONE: READING
1) Politics
a) Politics: A very short introduction (Kenneth Minogue)
b) Introduction to Political Theory (John Hoffman and Paul Graham)
c) Introduction to Political Science (Mazhar ul Haq)
d) Analyzing Politics (Ellen Grigsby)
e) Penguin Dictionary of Politics
2) Economics
a) Economics (Partha Dasgupta)
b) Issues in Pakistan Economy (Akbar S. Zaidi)
c) Economic Survey of Pakistan
3) World History
a) World History (V.B Rao)
b) Western Heritage (Donald Kaghan)
c) International History (Anthony Best)
4) Literature
a) Conquest of Happiness (Bertrand Russell)
b) Pleasures of Philosophy (Will Durrant)
c) Unpopular Essays (Bertrand Russell)
d) Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
e) Skeptical Essays (Bertrand Russell)
5) Philosophy
a) Sophie‘s World (Jostein Gardner)
b) Philosophy: the Power of Ideas (Brooke Noel Moore)
WHAT AND HOW TO WRITE??
PART TWO: WRITING
The stages of academic writing are as follows:
1) Basic Grammar: Tenses, Parts of Speech, and Use of Punctuation.
2) Sentence Structure: Types of Sentences, Parallelism, Sentence problems, and Types of Clauses.
3) Paragraph Writing: Paragraph Structure, Outlining, Unity and Coherence, Kinds of Logical Order, and Concrete Support.
4) Essay Writing: The Process of Academic Writing, Components of Essay, Patterns of Essay Organization, Outline–Making, and Capacity Building.
5) Developing Expression: Analysis, Evaluation of knowledge and proper linking.
RESOURCES FOR WRITING
Always remember; the key to good writing is good reading and extensive practice.
a) English Precis & Composition (Karimdad Chughtai)
b) Exploring the world of English (Sayyid Saadat Ali Shah)
c) English Grammar in Use (Raymond Murphy)
d) College Writing (Macmillan)
e) Essay Writing Notes (Aamir Mahar)
f) Exploring Writing (John Langan)
g) College Writing (Susan Anker)
