Joe wrote:afastpitchfanatic wrote:Last time I checked, an essay consists of more than one paragraph.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong on this.
An essay is a short piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article and a short story. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population provide counterexamples.
I don't see anything here about number of paragraphs...In fact, note the word "brevity".
Brevity: 1. The quality or state of being brief in duration. 2. Concise expression; terseness. [Latin brevit s, from brevis, short; see brief.]
One must conclude that, "Last time I checked, an essay consists of more than one paragraph" is a false statement. Please re-submit your response...
Cut and paste from a dicktionary (<---Just for Joe) site? OMFG Joe. You SUCK if that's all ya got !!!!




























