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Begin WRITING TEST Here.
In this essay I am writing about that school should be extended for five year.
I think that school should be extended for five year because it will help you
how you are educate. The school for five year will help you a lot when you
are doing something. The school for five year could help you in most
everything that you are doing. I think that if you go to school for five years
you could learn a lot of skills. School could help you out of most anything
that you want to do in this world. School could teach you how to be educator.
By going to school is a good thing because if you go to school it could help
have experience in everything that you are doing. To have experience you to
do that thing you do best and how well you do at it. I think that school could
teach you how to have experience in everything you are doing. I know that
to go to school you have to choice to go to school because nobody can make
you go to school. I know that school are not for everyone but I think that

every children should go to school because if you don't go to school you will
not be educate. I know that when you have an education it is a good thing.
School is a place where you could learn a lot of different that you don't know.
I know that I learn a lot of thing I didn't know but I know them. By going to
school you make new friends, and you see

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a lot of different people like people that is not from the United States. At
school you do classwork and do all type of assignment your teacher told you
to do. I believe that every students should want to be educator because you
need education in this world. School shouldn't be a place where students
fights. I think that every students should like going to school.

Scoring Explanation
This essay shows little skill in responding to the writing task.
While the writer takes a position on the issue in the beginning of the essay (I
think that school should be extended for five year because it will help you
how you are educate), the rest of the discussion does not convey reasons to
support that position. Instead, the writer minimally develops many different
ideas about school in general, repeating ideas rather than explaining them
(School is a place where you could learn a lot of different that you don't
know. I know that I learn a lot of thing I didn't know but I know them). At
times, statements supporting claims are not understandable (By going to
school is a good thing because if you go to school it could help have
experience in everything that you are doing. To have experience you to do
that thing you do best and how well you do at it).
There is no discernable organization to the essay other than a minimal
introductory statement: ideas are not logically grouped, no transitions are
used, and no conclusion is offered. Sentence structure and word choice are
consistently simple, with sentences repeatedly beginning with, "I think" or "I
know."
Language usage errors are frequently distracting and contribute to difficulty
understanding some

es
Word Origin

noun
1.

a short literary composition on a particular themeor subject, usually in prose and generally analyt
ic,speculative, or interpretative.
2.
anything resembling such a composition:
a picture essay.
3.
an effort to perform or accomplish something;attempt.
4.
Philately. a design for a proposed stamp differingin any way from the design of the stamp asissue
d.
5.
Obsolete. a tentative effort; trial; assay.

verb (used with object)

6.
to try; attempt.
7.
to put to the test; make trial of.

Origin of essayExpand
Middle French

1475-1485

1475-85; < Middle French essayer, cognate withAnglo-French assayer to assay < Late Latin exa
gium aweighing, equivalent to *exag (ere), for Latin exigere toexamine, test, literally, to drive ou
t (see exact ) + -ium-ium
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Related formsExpand
essayer, noun
preessay, verb (used without object)
unessayed, adjective
well-essayed, adjective
Can be confusedExpand
assay, essay.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2015.
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Examples from the web for essayExpand

Perhaps the true meaning of the word essay-an attempt-gives a clue.

It is my hope that this essay will initiate such a conversation.

Readers may be interested in a more sober mindedessay on this topic.

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British Dictionary definitions for essayExpand

essay
noun (se; for senses 2, 3 also) (se)
1.
a short literary composition dealing with a subject analytically or speculatively
2.
an attempt or endeavour; effort
3.
a test or trial
verb (transitive) (se)
4.
to attempt or endeavour; try
5.
to test or try out

Word Origin
C15: from Old French essaier to attempt, from essai an attempt, from Late Latin exagium a
weighing, from Latin agere to do, compel, influenced by exigere to investigate
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word Origin and History for essayExpand

n.
1590s, "short non-fiction literary composition" (first attested in writings of Francis Bacon,
probably in imitation of Montaigne), from Middle French essai "trial, attempt, essay," from Late
Latin exagium "a weighing, weight," from Latin exigere "test," from ex- "out" (seeex-)
+ agere (see act) apparently meaning here "to weigh." The suggestion is of unpolished writing.
v.
"to put to proof, test the mettle of," late 15c., from Middle French essaier,
from essai (see essay (n.)). This sense has mostly gone with the divergent spellingassay.
Meaning "to attempt" is from 1640s. Related:Essayed; essaying.
Online Etymology Dictionary, 2010 Douglas Harper
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essay in CultureExpand

essay definition
A short piece of writing on one subject, usually presenting the author's own views. Michel
deMontaigne, Francis Bacon, and Ralph Waldo Emersonare celebrated for their essays.
The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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