Practice Essay writing - Likho, Padho aur Seekho
Creating this thread for writing an essay each week.
Current schedule (plz suggest if needs to be changed) -
1. Write one essay on sunday from 3:00-4:30 PM
2. Submit here by 5 PM (okay 5:15 PM)
3. Read others essay by 6PM
4. Comments/Review/Extra discussion post that.
Everyone is welcome. Though, it is feasible if we have relatively smaller groups. Excited to read awesome essays and write some also.
New sunday ,new essay
Lets do it folks.
@nerdfighter@Aalsibalak@Aquaman@sstarrr@babu_bisleri@walterwhit3- up for today ?
Me and a friend are writing an essay on Wisdom Finds Truth (2019).
You guys?
We too can do this. PYQ are a good way to start.
I found it most challenging among the 4 in 2019. If you guys are willing for it, then PYQs are the best way in my opinion.
Wisdom finds truth then !
Let our and other's wisdom find the truth about our writing skill !!
Actually I am new to essay writing essays. I wrote 1-2 essays in mgp without a framework, I wrote whatever was coming to my mind. I got good scores for those essays so never cared for writing any more. Now when see some of the essays here I am doubting the evaluation. I will post the essays here It would be really helpful if I could get a review or two about that.
Also please if anyone can jot down a few points about how they structure their essays and how do they brainstorm before the essays I mean what points do they think of before writing the essays.
EiChan,
Ankit_essay.pdf
New sunday ,new essay
Lets do it folks.
@nerdfighter@Aalsibalak@Aquaman@sstarrr@babu_bisleri@walterwhit3- up for today ?
Me and a friend are writing an essay on Wisdom Finds Truth (2019).
You guys?
We too can do this. PYQ are a good way to start.
I found it most challenging among the 4 in 2019. If you guys are willing for it, then PYQs are the best way in my opinion.
I agree.. rather going for test series essays covering themewise PYQ essays will give confidence..
walterwhit3,brownianMotionWisdom finds truth !!
Very hard topic.Took 15~20 mins extra. Will be very interesting on what lines others thought on this topic. My attempt.
walterwhit3,sstarrr.
Wisdom finds truth !!
Very hard topic.
Hello@farzicoder,I went through your essay.
Here are the points that I noticed:
Pros:
- Really simple language, barring few flowery terms like Borderless and Bottomless sea :D
- Ample examples from Indian context: Freedom Movement, Economy, LPG, Environment.
- The number of dimensions explored here. I think you went into 8 to 9 dimensions.
Possible Scope of Improvements:
- The idea of Wisdom in terms of philosophical knowledge could have been explored in a better manner.
- Knowing facts alone does not amount to wisdom
. The nature of wisdom which you explored around page 8 could have been elucidated around page 2 or 3. I feel the example of MKSS could be somewhat trivial here. But that's just my opinion. - Don't just say recent advancements like something: Add an example. Like, say Quantum Tunnelling, mRNA etc.
- The para where you went into what all have you discussed in this essay is perhaps avoidable. The examiner has already seen it. Rather than writing it in this manner, you can better use it by saying: Thus truth and wisdom are intertwined by multiple threads: so and so.
Keep writing
brownianMotion,Wisdom finds truth !!
Very hard topic.
Hello@farzicoder,I went through your essay.
Here are the points that I noticed:Pros:
- Really simple language, barring few flowery terms like Borderless and Bottomless sea :D
- Ample examples from Indian context: Freedom Movement, Economy, LPG, Environment.
- The number of dimensions explored here. I think you went into 8 to 9 dimensions.
Possible Scope of Improvements:
- The idea of Wisdom in terms of philosophical knowledge could have been explored in a better manner.
- Knowing facts alone does not amount to wisdom
. The nature of wisdom which you explored around page 8 could have been elucidated around page 2 or 3. I feel the example of MKSS could be somewhat trivial here. But that's just my opinion. - Don't just say recent advancements like something: Add an example. Like, say Quantum Tunnelling, mRNA etc.
- The para where you went into what all have you discussed in this essay is perhaps avoidable. The examiner has already seen it. Rather than writing it in this manner, you can better use it by saying: Thus truth and wisdom are intertwined by multiple threads: so and so.
Keep writing
Thank you for your analysis and comments on improvement areas. Will try to address those.
I will go through your essay at sometime today and give my views. :)
walterwhit3,@walterwhit3 how did you remember so many quotes ?? . Do you like reading philosophy ??
Yeah. I like to read some stuff about it from time to time.
I was writing below average philosophical essays. Then I started paying attention to some quotes.
I still might be writing below average because essays are so subjective.
EiChan,PursuitofHappyness
wisdom finds truth.pdfHi. Just a thing , its a collective platform -instead of asking someone to review yours , pls review someone else as well so that even they get feedback , atleast on the similar ones - your's would be automatically reviewed.
Exactly my thought. I was going to post this myself. If you are posting your essay for a review, please consider doing one review yourself simultaneously. Just read thoroughly and post your opinion in an honest manner.
Let's make itdecentralizedrather than a centralized copy submission and receiving review style.
sstarrr,@Walter_White Don't take it otherwise but don;t you think you have made it an essay of philosophy? Although i haven't written the essay but i was going through some videos on telegram where people said to show your knowledge in your area of specialization as it is your domain but don't go too far. Otherwise, the Intro was too good and the first three paragraphs were brilliant but then it started to get too much of philosophy.
EiChan,@Walter_White Don't take it otherwise but don;t you think you have made it an essay of philosophy? Although i haven't written the essay but i was going through some videos on telegram where people said to show your knowledge in your area of specialization as it is your domain but don't go too far. Otherwise, the Intro was too good and the first three paragraphs were brilliant but then it started to get too much of philosophy.
I found the topic really philosophical and thus approached it in the same manner. Although philosophy is not my specialization, I am having Physics optional. But it is possible that I might have overdone it.
Thank you for pointing it out.
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