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Subjective english

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Has anybody, or, does anybody know of where to find any essays written subjectively in English that I can look at? Good ones and bad ones for comparison?

I have to write a subjective essay on "Is the Chancellor a friend or Foe", regarding the housing market. I don't really understand what it is?
 
Whistler said:
Has anybody, or, does anybody know of where to find any essays written subjectively in English that I can look at? Good ones and bad ones for comparison?

I have to write a subjective essay on "Is the Chancellor a friend or Foe", regarding the housing market. I don't really understand what it is?
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I'm a certified English teacher, and I have no idea what that means.

Perhaps you are supposed to write an essay from a subjective perspective. In that case, the Op-Ed pages of any decent newspaper should do for examples. I recommend William Raspberry, if you can find any of his work.
 
I'm confused too, and I've written a good few essays in my time.

Maybe subjective here just means that you should give your own opinion (as epepke suggests); in which case one way to tackle it is to present the evidence about the effect the Chancellor is having on the housing market, then at the end draw your conclusions, referring to the evidence to support your case.

Of course, this might be wrong - it really doesn't make sense as you've presented it.
 
I got it wrong. Sorry. I am not allowed to write subjectively. I read my assignment incorrectly.

I have to write a balanced essay. Which is a problem as I don't know how to write an essay in the first place.

Tips or examples of I would be grateful of.
 
I suppose what's wanted is that you make a reasoned case about whether the recent huge increase in property prices is due to government financial policy. Having made that assessment, you have to decide if the increase is a good or bad thing.
(That might depend whether you were buying or selling).

I'm no financial expert, but some of Gordon Brown's major policies have been keeping the Pound instead of adopting the Euro, keeping interest rates low (though the base rate is not set directly by the government) and maintaining low rates of inflation.

Note that official government inflation figures deliberately exclude house price increases, the single biggest financial commitment of most peoples lives, so that we have nominal inflation around 2% and house price rises of 10-20% per annum.

Low interest rates encourage borrowing. So we have more debt than ever, on credit cards and bank loans as well as mortgages.

These are general tips to start from. I suggest you grab a couple of newspapers like the Telegraph or Guardian and scan the financial and business pages for buzzwords. Then Google them.

nb- My own suspicion is that after the collapse of the stock market in the last 5 years, people have simply invested in bricks and mortar. The scramble to buy has shoved prices up ludicrously. There's a correction coming. You mark my words...
(Shuffles off, clutching hot water bottle and spilling cocoa down pyjamas).
 
I wrote my essay. It was harder than I thought but I was given some good advice how to structure my essay through the use of plans and sticking to it.


I would still have loved to see how people write essays. Just so I know how they are correctly written.

Would anybody be willing to write one so I could see? I'll do it to, the more I can practise the more I can improve, and I could compare it to mine to see how to improve mine and which areas need work.
 
You might want to try to find The Oxford Book of Essays edited by John Gross at your local library.

If you want to learn how to write essays, it would help to study a sample of the best ones written.

This means you should not just read the essays but look at the different parts, the introduction and conclusions, how they're structured and how the arguments are developed.

I'm sure you could find a lot of advice about how to write essays and read some well written essays if you check out your local library.
 
diomedes said:
You might want to try to find The Oxford Book of Essays edited by John Gross at your local library.

If you want to learn how to write essays, it would help to study a sample of the best ones written.

This means you should not just read the essays but look at the different parts, the introduction and conclusions, how they're structured and how the arguments are developed.

I'm sure you could find a lot of advice about how to write essays and read some well written essays if you check out your local library.
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I will look for it on Amazon that is my nearest library. It is exactly what I need to see.
 
Jeff Corey said:
Originally posted by Whistler
Would anybody be willing to write one so I could see? I'll do it to (?), the more I can practise the more I can improve, and I could compare it to mine to see how to improve mine and which areas need work.
Try this one. http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
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Thank you. I will read it properly and have a go at writing an essay on it myself.
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