Sunday, April 12, 2020
How To Write A Sample Essay As Great As The Law of Gravity By William J. Heisler
How To Write A Sample Essay As Great As The 'Law of Gravity' By William J. HeislerIf you are a college student that has taken AP Lit for your college entrance exams, then you would know how difficult it is to write a real good essay. A good essay, be it fiction or non-fiction, has to take its own shape. Hence, when writing a sample essay for the AP Lit Exam, you would want to know how to help your essay stand out from the rest.Here is a practical application of this principle in writing an essay. Suppose that you were to write an essay on this topic: 'The Law of Gravity'. You might very well find that a lot of essay writing writers have written essays on this subject, some of which are very good, while others are hardly worth the name. On the other hand, some of these writers had yet to attain their full potential. Your example for the later type of essay would be: 'Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution: Origins and Problems' by William J. Heisler.Heisler's essay was an extremely inte resting piece, with subjects and topics that did not simply fall into chronological order, but were much more interesting in themselves. In Heisler's essay, he places the evolution of the species, its stages, its stages of development, its varieties, its methods, its causes, its uses, etc. But above all, Heisler's essay took its own shape and set of topics and started from the place where Darwin had started from: the Origin of Species.The central and at the same time most important concept in Heisler's essay is the one that he presented in his introduction, as the major theme of his essay. This theme is the theory of evolution. From this premise Heisler's essay jumps into a question and answer manner and moves from there. His explanation for Darwin's theory of evolution is really compelling, and it is because of this that it got him to write 'Origin of Species', instead of 'Necessary Conditions for Evolution' as he could have done with his essay 'The Law of Gravity'.The rest of the essay is equally powerful and worthy of consideration. The reading, the discussion and the essays, which are also included in the book, are all very compelling. The entire essay, however, is also extremely effective because Heisler chose to make a conversation between two characters that were very different. The premise and the topic are very different but the dialogue is very similar, making it feel as if it had been written by the same author.In a way, the essay does remind me of the writings of the great poets, but then again the 'in between' nature of such an essay is what makes it unique. The difference is that the writer of this essay has actually tried to make his essay have something that it would not do on its own. That was probably the idea behind the format, the method and the subject, and Heisler followed suit.There is one final thing I should mention about the structure of this essay. I have found it very difficult to summarize all the different ideas that were written in this essay. So, just for the sake of making this brief, let me list all the ideas that are discussed in the essay.
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