ESSAY
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 word essay derives from the French word "essai" which means "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, and his essays grew. Inspired in particular by the works of Plutarch, a translation of whose Oeuvres Morales (Moral Works) into French had just been published by Jacques Amyot, Montaigne began to compose his essays in 1572; the first edition, entitled Essais, was published in two volumes in 1580. For the rest of his life he continued revising previously published essays and composing new ones.Francis Bacon's "Essais", published in book form in 1597-1612 and 1625, were the first works in English that described themselves as essays.Ben Jonson first used the word essayist in English in 1609.
PARTS OF AN ESSAY:
A) INTRODUCTION/BEGINNING
B) BODY
C) ENDING/CONCLUSION
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