When trying tyo select ideas for my essay I went through a few thoughts. The first of which was I wanted it to be something that meant something to me. I wanted it to be something that affected me everyday. I also wanted it to be something interesting, something that people didn't know about to try to lure people in. I thought about something touching, or something heartfelt, but those subjects are kind of played out. Ninety percent of essays I read have some mushy, touchy feely aspects that I wanted to try to steer away from to be different. I know the ninety percent comment is a bit far fectched, but I wanted it to be about something a mojority of people wouldn't know anout.
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Your criteria all make sense to me, and I can appreciate the desire to stay away from the mushy stuff. Think about the subjects you're an "expert" in--compared to most of other people in class--of course, you'll have to guess. Could you write about the process of learning to do something, so that maybe a good part of essay could be details of what you know? Or something you're a true *fan* of? (I'll read an essay in class about the beauty of the baseball double play, and how one writer came to rebel against what his father had taught him about how the d.p. should be performed--with larger moral implications.) Personal essays *can* be about substantive "stuff", not just personal relations-mush.
ReplyDelete:) Thank you. It was good to hear an essay in class finally that wasn't so heart felt. I think it was the first one I didn't need a Kleenex for. Mine hopefully stands out from the rest. It is certainly something I'm a true fan of and I would almost go as far as saying I'm an expert in this subject.
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