Did You Know That Essay Writing Is More Than Hundred Years Old?
Posted on February 7, 2007
Right now you are sitting in front of your computer, staring at a blank monitor, and cursing whoever created with a teacher that assigned you this paper, but maybe it will be helpful and interesting to know that at first essays were not homework assignments at all.
Essays were created in 1850 by Michel de Montaigne, one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. The French infinitive “essayer” means “to attempt”. Still true to most of students who try to deal with their essay writings, isn’t it?
Montaigne wrote a book Essais – a big two-volume edition, which still contains some of the most influential essays ever written. The literary form of essays the way the French writer saw them was a short subjective treatment of a given topic. They were written in a stream-of-thought manner that was supposed to intrigue the readers.
The first to use the word “essayist” in English was Ben Johnson, a Renaissance dramatist, and William Shakespeare’s good friend. Only much later essays joined the list of academic writing requirements, and evolved into small, classified into different genres (cause-and-effect, compare-and-contrast, narrative essays etc.), but effective instruments for students’ torture. So next time you think about saying something impolite about essays writing, just think about the long way it made in history before coming to you.
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