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Meaning of essay in English

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  • I want to finish off this essay before I go to bed .
  • His essay was full of spelling errors .
  • Have you given that essay in yet ?
  • Have you handed in your history essay yet ?
  • I'd like to discuss the first point in your essay.
  • boilerplate
  • composition
  • corresponding author
  • dissertation
  • essay question
  • peer review
  • go after someone phrasal verb
  • go all out idiom
  • go down swinging/fighting idiom
  • go for it idiom
  • go for someone phrasal verb
  • shoot for the moon idiom
  • shoot the works idiom
  • smarten (someone/something) up phrasal verb
  • smarten up your act idiom
  • square the circle idiom

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    An essay is a form of writing in paragraph form that uses informal language, although it can be written formally. Essays may be written in first-person point of view (I, ours, …

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    The word essay derives from the French infinitive essayer, "to try" or "to attempt". In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing.

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