Since elementary school to the university, students are continually molded to write essays in various subjects. In elementary school especially, students are taught the basic skills and conventions on how to write an essay. The conventions and skills to write a good essay in elementary school is very important in the later essay writing of any student. Elementary school teachers ensure that one understands the most basic rules of essay writing. These basic rules of essay writing later come to be very useful when writing a professional essay or a serious academic essay like a dissertation or a thesis.

The basic essay writing skills and conventions include issues to do with grammar like spelling, punctuation, and proper sentence and word construction. These are among the basic elements of proper essay writing. It is imperative in essay writing that one has knowledge in spelling and proper sentence and word construction as well as punctuation for one’s essay to make any sense. An essay which flaunts these conventions would be lowly considered. Such an essay would fail to communicate its ideas in clear manner and would be considered a poor essay in any circumstances that the essay is put in.

Writing a good essay requires that you understand how to arrange sentences and paragraphs in addition to good sentence construction. Looking at sentence construction first, it is vital that when writing any essay we understand the concept of subject, verb and object. These three sub sections of a sentence are the basic requirements of proper sentence construction when writing an essay. The subject is the initial element of a sentence and is the position taken by the doer of the action. Any sentence in any essay would be considered incomplete if it lacks the subject. The verb represents the action done by the subject, while the object is the recipient of the subject’s action. Practically, when writing an essay, these aspects just come in more or less a natural manner depending on an individual’s command of the language.

Another aspect of good and proper essay writing is punctuation. Punctuation in essays can completely alter the meaning of a sentence or a phrase. It is very important when writing an essay to ensure that the correct punctuation marks are used. Failure to punctuate properly ends up to the essay being illogical.

You might also find a lot of ambiguity in a poorly punctuated essay. Ambiguity in an essay often leads to miscommunication in that particular essay. The essay thus would fail to effectively communicate its message which is the most important reason of writing an essay. There is also the issue of an essay having contradictory statements as a result of poor punctuation in the essay. Again the essay here would fail to meet its purpose of communication.

A good essay should have the words in the essay clearly and properly spelt out. Most essay writers have spelling mistakes in essays especially in words that are pronounced in the same way but written differently. Essay writers should ensure that they have a rich vocabulary for them to have alternative words for while writing their essays. This is especially when they want to emphasize on certain information in their essays. Having a rich vocabulary would also ensure that you do not lack words to fully express yourself while writing your essay.

Good essays also need to be written a logical and coherent manner. That is why it is very important to plan your essay before embarking on writing your essay. It is recommended that to write a good essay, you should spend 80% of all the time available planning your essay and use the rest of the time writing and proof reading. This is in a nut shell the idea of writing.