THE MAIN ISSUES OF ACADEMIC ESSAY WRITING

Abstract

The article describes the crucial role of academic essay writing in creating the academic writing skills of students and considers its benefits in developing the abilities like critical thinking, intellectual development, expressing the ideas logically, necessary in scientific research conducting. From the first beginning, the article turns back to the brief history of the essay genre foundation among western and Russian investigators and outlines its current development since essay writing has became one of components in the field of academic writing. The ways, methods and approaches of essay writing, the compositional and structural design of its structure, requirements to the summary of each part of essay are the main issues under consideration in given article and the results of them, types of evaluation, criteria for each essay part are designed and are given in tables. Also, the types of essay such as opinion essay, response essay, research essay, persuasive essay, argumentative essay, compare and contrast essay, analysis essay are profoundly studied and described, and the next types of essay like narrative essay, description essay, comparative essay, argumentative essay are deeply analyzed in the article. Moreover, the deep survey of differences between essay and composition are conducted and presented in form of table.