Compound sentences are composed of at least two main clauses. In each clauses (simple sentences), there must be at least a subject and a verb. The following coordinating conjunctions compound the clauses:
and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet
Essay writing is both an art and a science. It is an art in that the writer must come up with a good idea, put thought behind it, choose provocative words and entertain while informing the reader. Good essays take a fair amount of creativity and style, and many of them even successfully tweak the science part of it without doing any harm. However, there is a basic science to writing a successful essay that flows, and all good essayists, from E.B. White to Joan Didion, had the science down before they were able to creatively manipulate it.
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When you are writing an essay, the first step is to choose a topic and determine what direction or point of view you will take. Your essay may try to persuade the reader to share your view on the topic, it may try to explain to the reader how to complete a particular task, or it may try to inform or educate the reader on a particular topic.
Every good essay will follow the following outline:
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The Use of Punctuation Marks
Punctuation is a visual device to make writing easy to read and to understand the written material.
The Full Stop (Period)
The full stop is used at the end of each declerative sentence, except questions and exclamations.
“He who says I am a Turk is the happiest person.”
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