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2. Essay - Wikipedia

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   Essay. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization ...

3. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published. [ 1] Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended ...

4. Education - Wikipedia

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   Education is a wide phenomenon that applies to all age groups and covers formal education (top row) as well as non-formal and informal education (bottom row). Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as ...

5. A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia

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   A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...

6. Outline (list) - Wikipedia

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   Outline (list) An outline, also called a hierarchical outline, is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships and is a type of tree structure. An outline is used [ 1] to present the main points (in sentences) or topics ( terms) of a given subject. Each item in an outline may be divided into additional sub-items.

7. Some Thoughts Concerning Education - Wikipedia

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   Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. [ 1] For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the eighteenth century, and nearly ...

8. Schaffer method - Wikipedia

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   Schaffer method. The Jane Schaffer method is a formula for essay writing that is taught in some U.S. middle schools and high schools. Developed by a San Diego teacher named Jane Schaffer, who started offering training and a 45-day curriculum in 1995, it is intended to help students who struggle with structuring essays by providing a framework ...

9. Nature (essay) - Wikipedia

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   Nature. (essay) Nature is a book-length essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. [ 1] In the essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. [ 2] Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature ...